SOVIET ANTI-SEMITISM EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN D. DINGELL OF MICHIGAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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in the struggle against the segregation sys-
tem," Jackson said. ' "It would be a con-
frontation at the production level with the
power structure itself.
It Sort. of Makes You Wonder
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, later
this session when the Ways and Means
Committee brings before us legislation
amending the social security law, it is
my intention to offer an amendment ex-
cluding groups such as the Amish from
enforced control under the law when
requests to remain uncovered by social
security is requested by religious groups.
The constant harrassment of Amish
and similar tiny groups was dramatically
and forcefully reported in an article by
Columnist Jenkin Lloyd Jones in yester-
day's Washington Evening Star. The
article is not only timely but raises inter-
esting points upon which we all should
ponder. I insert the article at this point
for the RECORD:
IT SORT OF MAKES YOU WONDER=GOVERNMENT
PUTS BEATS ON THE DOLE, BUT BADGERS THE
SELF-SUFFICIENT AMISH
(By Jenkin Lloyd Jones)
NEW YORK CITY.-I am sitting in this little
coffeehouse on Third Street in Greenwich
Village watching the beats.
The place is a gutted-out store with bare
brick walls and rough pine tables and
.benches. It is decorated with some far-out
pieces of art, reminding you of finger paint-
ing day in kindergarten. Right in front of
a strong spotlight is a raised platform of
unpainted boards that holds one straight
chair. You can either sit in the chair or
stand and place your foot on the seat, de-
pending on how you like to wallop the
guitar. .
Coffee is a dollar a mug and the enter-
tainers make their pittance by passing around-
a basket. Here and there a tourist will
drop in a buck, but the Greenwich Village
habitues rarely toss in more than a dime.
It seems to work out that the more you are
with it the less you give.
Down the street and around the corner
there are larger and more famous places
where you can buy wine and where combos
alternate with unwashed people reciting
dirty blank verse with great attention to its
"social protest." It is in these brassier cof-
feehouses that the ban-the-bomb and jus-
tice-for-Castro crowd hangs out, perhaps
because there are more people to see them.
But my little coffeehouse is for the beat-
Puritans. Only coffee. Only folk music.
Folk music is simple and uncomplicated,
born of log cabins and campfires, and sad
with unrequited love and untimely death.
You watch the spectators. Long-haired boys
clad in stained slacks and open shirts.
Frowzy. girls with unwashed hair, studied
in their ugliness. And you think what a
colossal joke it is that these who profess to
despise uniformity have slipped into an
easily recognizable uniform, the uniform of
the slob.
But there is something more. Here are
many able-bodied young people who not only
accept but seek public welfare payments.
Yet they pride themselves upon their com-
passion for the poor who, if they are to be
helped, must be helped by the labor of some-
one. Here are the pleaders for peace at any
price who have never tasted the horrors of
war but who have concluded that no cause
is worth dying for.
Here are the laughers at law, the scorners
of morality, the rejectors of thrift, the scof-
fers at squares who work-absorbed com-
pletely In the quest for their own self-
satisfaction. And they gather in this smoky
grotto to stare at the ceiling, to twitch their
Shoulders and softly snap their fingers as
the guitar men and women sing music that
is easy on the brain.
So, to the Amish. Later I was at Lan-
caster, Pa., and a friend lent me his car so
that I might drive out into the beautiful
farm country where the barns are the fat-
test, the cattle the sleekest, and the fields
the neatest in all America.
There are some striking parallels between
the Amish and the beats.' For both, beards
are the style. Both dress peculiarly. And
while the beats seek the simplicity of primi-
tive music the Amish turn their backs on
modern machinery and drive the Pennsyl-
vania roads in their black buggies.
There are, however, a few differences.
The Amish have no divorce, no crime, no
juvenile delinquency, no unemployment or
old-age problems. They take care of their
own. They refuse Government subsidies.
They take no money for not plowing a field.
They dislike insurance. If a barn burns the
whole community rushes to rebuild it.? Be-
cause they supply their own social security
they object to social security taxes.
This has. brought down upon them the
wrath of the huge national bureaucracy
which sees only chaos if some people are
permitted to look elsewhere than to the
Government for their welfare. So the Amish
have been repeatedly yanked into the Fed-
eral courts. A couple of years ago Govern-
ment agents even seized Amish. horses at
plowing time to satisfy social security judg-
ments.
We have a system of government under
which all beats are comfortable and the
Amish are bullied and badgered.
It sort of makes you wonder.
Profile in Courage
HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, I com-
mend to the attention of our colleagues
the following poem by my good friend
Jack Brandf on, of Brooklyn, N.Y., about
our late beloved President, John F.
Kennedy. _
The poem follows:
PROFILE IN COURAGE
PT 109 and the bad back,
Cuba, 1963, and the backdown,
ICBM and peace through stren gth,
Test ban treaty and Russia is severed from
China,
The hundred-year-old promise to the colored
man kept,
The arts honored at last,
And in the White House!
Let the blasts of the eternal trumpet cleave
the air,
For arm in arm, models and friends, Jeffer-
son, J. Q. Adams
And J.F.K, are there.
-JACK BRANDFON.
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Need To Reduce Beef Imports
Emphasized
-EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. ANCHER NELSEN
OF MINNESOTA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, last week
I introduced a proposal, -I-T.IZ. 10172,
which would roll back the level of im-
ports of beef, veal, and mutton to a level
of the 5-year average ending on Decem-
ber 31, 1963. In view of the voluntary
agreements entered into a short time ago
with Australia and New Zealand, and
now with Ireland, to effect a mere 6-per-
cent reduction from the high levels of
1963, it is a matter of urgent necessity
that we here in the Congress take action
to bring adequate relief to the depressed
livestock markets here in our own coun-
try. -
I have received a letter from Mr.
George E. Carlson, of Carlson Farms,
Waconia, Minn., presenting comments on
what a healthy livestock industry means
to the entire economy. Hardship among
the Nation's livestock producers is not
an isolated situation-continued low
prices in the livestock markets will effect
all those industries which depend- for a
substantial share of their income on a
vigorous livestock industry.
Mr. Carlson's letter follows:
CARLSON FARMS,
Waconia, Minn., February 27, 1964.
Hon. ANCHER NELSEN, -
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.
SIR: This may come as a surprise, but we
in the beef industry are in big trouble.
Why? Because overly generous import
quotas on beef and veal are pushing domes-
tic prices lower and lower.
After feeding the 1,200 Hergfords yearly
on our feeding lot, we will be forced to dis-
continue our cattle operation unless we get
relief in the form of improved prices. There
are those who will say, "A beef feeder is
quitting business. So what?" Here's what:
Halting our cattle business will remove about
$400,000 a year in revenue from the economy
of the community of Waconia, Minn,
This not only pinches the local economy,
but affects the many people in various- busi-
nesses who sell products and services to us,
and causes unemployment. There's the
breeder and calf ranchers, yearling ranchers,
cowhands, feed lot operators, bankers, feed
chemists, refiners, flour mills, veterinarians,
farmers, truckdrivers, railroaders, stockyard
men and many others whose livelihood is tied
to the domestic beef industry.
Multiply our situation by that of thou- _
sands of others who are feeling the cost-price
squeeze and you soon have a sick beef indus-
try.
If the import situation wasn't bad enough,
we learn that foreign aid money is now being
used to set up other countries in the beef
business. That's all we need. Operating at
far lower costs, they can then Import to us
at our expense to drive our beef industry
completely out of business, which would
seriously damage ournational economy.
All of this is caused by uninformed people
in Government who simply don't know much
about farming and cattle - raising. Unless
one has had the -experience of owning, oper-
ating, and managing in the cattle farm
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business, he can't possibly make a qualified
decision on these matters.
A healthy, job-providln.1 beef industry can
produce sufficient beef for our own national
consumption and take care of our yearly in-
crease in population as well. To make this
possible, legislation must '3e passed to reduce
Imports of beef and veal to the 1958-SO aver-
age levels, which was about 5 percent of
U.S. production.
We will appreciate your studied considera-
tion of this matter and I;wait your reply as
to what you and other Members of Congress
can do to help us.
Respectfully yours,
GEO. E. CARLSON.
American Legion in Panama Canal Zone
Protests Hiring of Panamanians as
Canal Zone Policeme:i
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. GLENN CUNNINGHAM
OF NEBRASKA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 20, 1964
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, the
following resolution was passed by the
American Legion Department of the
Panama Canal Zone an3 should be of in-
terest to the Members of the House Of
Representatives :
RESOLUTION BY THE AMERICAN LEGION, DE-
PARTMENT OF THE PANnMA CANAL ZONE
Whereas the duties anci responsibilities of
U.S. citizen policemen In the Canal Zone
demand of the Individual unquestioned loy-
alty and allegiance to the United States; and
Whereas these policemen must meet every
securuity criteria conceived by law and regu-
lations necessary to the safeguarding of life
and property and to insure continuity and
capability of operation and administration of
Canal Zone activities under any circum-
stances by the U.S. Government; and
Whereas a Panamanian police candidate in
taking an oath of office would not and could
not pledge an oath of loyalty and allegiance
to the U.S. Government; acid
Whereas the hiring o_ Panamanians as
Canal Zone policemen would be interpreted
by citizens of the Repu'Iiic of Panama as
another act of appeasement and reaffirm ton
of their demands for complete absolute sov-
ereignty within the Canal Zone: Therefore
be it
Resolved by the Department Executive
Committee, the American Legion, Department
of the Panama Canal Zoae, meeting at the
American Legion Club, February 14, 1964, To
oppose the hiring of Panamanian citizens
as policemen In the Canal Zone as a threat to
national security of the "United States; and
be it further
Resolved, That we pretest the hiring of
Panamanians as Canal Zone policemen as a
violation of the Canal Zone Code (title 2,
sec. 147. Security Positions) which requires
the use of U.S. citizens to insure continuity
and capability of operation and administra-
tion of activities in the Canal Zone by the
U.S. Government; and be it further
Resolved, That we request the Congress of
the United States to refuse any and all
requests for monetary appropriations for
which any part will be used to pay the sal-
aries of Panamanians hired as policemen in
the Canal Zone; and be it finally
Resolved, That we advise all concerned of
this new threat to U.S. corntrol over the Canal
Zone.
Soviet Anti-Semitism
HON. JOHN D. DINGELL
OF MICHIGAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, March 3, 1964
Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, pur-
suant to permission granted, I insert into
the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL
RECORD a letter and resolution on Soviet
anti-Semitism which speaks clearly on a
cause for concern by all right-thinking
men. I refer to the anti-Semitism now
rampant in the Soviet Union which is
destroying the cultural and religious
identity of Jews within the U.S.S.R.
Certainly this matter deserves the atten-
tion of all Americans and of the United
Nations:
JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
of METROPOLITAN DETROIT,
February 20, 1964.
Hon JOHN D. DINGELL.
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR CONGRESSMAN DINaELa: The deterio-
rating situation of Jews resident In the So-
viet Union Is a source of deep alarm and
concern to our community. As an expres-
sion of this apprehension, our delegate as-
sembly, at its last quarterly meeting, adopted
the resolution which Is enclosed.
We bring this to your attention in the
hope that every appropriate diplomatic and
other action may be undertaken through
our Government to halt the religious and
cultural genocide being perpetrated against
the Jewish community In the Soviet Union.
The fact that these repressive measures are
in contradistinction to the status accorded
other cultural and religious minorities em-
phasizes for its the urgency of the problem.
Respectfully yours,
SIDNEY M. Suzvnz.
President.
WALTER KLmN.
Executive Director.
RESOLUTION ON SOVIET ANTI-SEMITISM
The Delegate Assembly of the Jewish Com-
munlty Council. composed of representatives
of 340 Jewish member organizations in the
Metropolitan Detroit area, deplores the con-
tinuing perpetration of cultural and religious
genocide against Jews In the Soviet Union by
the Soviet Government. Official restrictions
Imposed upon the 3 million Jews In the
Soviet Union deny to them their freedom of
worship, Isolate them from their tradition
and from their coreligionista in other parts
of the world, and destroy their specifically
Jewish Spirit.
Prohibitions against the making or im-
portation of Jewish religious objects-of
prayer shawls, phylacteries, prayerbooks.
Bibles, religious calendars-and against
maintaining spiritual ties with coreligionists
abroad, are indications of the harsh and
restrictive discriminatory measures. Jewish
religious and cultural life Is further circum-
scribed by restrictions against the Yiddish
theater and press, religious schools, publish-
ing of books In Yiddish and Hebrew. Tradi-
tional burial is proscribed and much anguish
is occasioned by the suffering thus imposed.
All of these restrictions are in contradis-
tinction to the status accorded to other na-
tionality and religious minorities resident in
the Soviet Union.
We, therefore. call upon the Soviet
authorities to implement their often
repeated concern for, and championship of,
freedom for all nationalities and groups, by
according to Soviet Jews the same status
and conditions enjoyed by other groupings
of Soviet citizens, and to restore to the
U.S.SR.'s Jewish citizens their rights to:
1. Jewish education in all its forms.
2. -Continuity of Jewish cultural life
through literature, theater, schools, press,
publishing houses and other forms of cul-
tural expression in Yiddish and in Hebrew.
3. Reopening of synagogues to serve the
religious needs of Soviet Jewry.
4. Jewish ritual observance In Its tradi-
tional forms.
5. Reestablishment of religious and cul-
tural bonds with Jewish communities
abroad.
6. Be reunited with their families in other
lands, from whom they have been separated.
We appeal to the Soviet Government-as
a matter of urgency and elementary
decency-to recognize the rights of Jews to
their own language, religious and cultural
expression to the degree permitted to all
other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union.
Our call also goes out to the Secretary
General of the United Nations, to use his
good offices and the machinery of this world
body, of which the Soviet Union is a member
Nation, to act against the cultural and
religious genocide being perpetrated against
Soviet Jewry.
We also call upon the Government of the
United States, our President, our Secretary
of State, our Congressmen, and our Ambas-
sador to the United Nations, to protest to
the Soviet Government. through diplomatic
and other channels, against the oppressions
herein detailed.
The officers of the Jewish Community
Council are instructed to send copies of this
resolution to the officials above mentioned,
and to take all appropriate measures to the
accomplishment of these ends, Independently
and In concert with national agencies and
other like minded groups.
Is It Wrong To Do the Best You Can?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. CHARLES S. GUBSER
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, March 3,1964
Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Speaker, a recent
ruling by the National Labor Relations
Board raises the question of whether it
Is wrong to do the very best you can.
The ruling also raises the question as to
whether ambition and superiority are to
be penalized and whether mediocrity is
a proper goal.
If the NLRB ruling that a union mem-
ber can be fined for exceeding his work
quota is to stand, there is no question
that we have taken one more step toward
communism and away from the private
enterprise system where one individual
can get ahead by doing better than his
competitor.
In the February 26 issue of the San
Jose, Calif., Mercury, a splendid editorial
appeared with respect to this ruling of
the NLRB. Under leave to extend my
remarks, I submit the editorial herewith:
NLRB LAUNCHES A DANGEROUS TREND
The National Labor Relations Board ap-
pears to be moving slowly but steadily
toward a position where the American work-
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