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• Publication Date: November 21, 1967
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lege Placement Council, and sent to 1,000
colleges and universities, urging that
school officials block attempts by small
groups to oi:,struct campus job recruit-
ment.
. Also on November 21, there appeared
in the Philadelphia Inquirer a column by
Roscoe Drummond entitled "United
States Is About Fed Up With War Dis-
senters." I include his column in the
RECORD at this point, along with the item
"College Recruiter Blocking Hit," which
also appeared In the Inquirer of the same
date :
UNITED STATES Is AnouT FED UP WITH WAR
DISSENTERS
(By Roscoe Drummond)
WASHINGTON.-The violent, illegal, vulgar,
anticivil rights tactics of the Vietnam pro-
testors are overstraining the Nation's toler-
ance. More and more people are showing that
they have had enough of this kind of thing
and won't stand for it much longer.
College officials, many professors and stu-
dent leaders who, in the name of preserving
free speech, have long tolerated the vicious
attempts to deny free speech on campus and
off, are deciding to call a halt.
It comes none too soon. It will have over-
whelming public support.
Congress has been as indulgent as the col-
lege authorities, but now even the Congrep-,
sional critics of the Vietnam War are begih'-
ring to see that there can be too much of a
bad thing.
Sen. Frank E. Moss (D., Utah), for ex-
ample, is urging a new type of bombing
pause-a moratorium on "bombing" Presi-
dent Johnson with a daily salvo of "vicious,
Insidious, and sadistic attacks."
"I steadfastly champion the civil rights
cause," Moss told the Senate. "But the at-
tacks I deplore are neither civil nor right."
That's exactly the point. Nobody from
President to page boy is denying anybody the
"right to dissent."
What cannot be tolerated in a free society,
in a democratic society, in a decent society,
Is the attempt of the dissenters to use vio-
lence and disorder to deny to others the
"right to assent."
We can't allow ourselves to become so pre-
occupied with preserving the civil rights of
the minority that we permit the lawless mi-
nority to violate the civil rights of the ma-
jority.
This is why the patience of the Nation with
the antics of the antifree speech, antidemo-
cratic, violent war protestors is wearing thin.
And with good reason.
It is amply evident that the primary pur-
pose of the antiwar pickets and placards is
not just to affirm their views but to make it
Impossible for others to speak theirs. They
don't want to promote the dialogue of a
free society; they want to stop the dialogue;
they want to close off free speech. They sur-
round public halls to prevent people from
assembly.
They storm an automobile carrying the
Vice President.
Some student dissenters resort to force and
violence to prevent other students from
being interviewed for employment by repre-
sentatives of companies that produce war
v materiel, or by the CIA, or by military re-
r
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c
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ers.
They hoot and howl at Dean Rusk to pre-
vent others from listening to him.
And in New York the other night these
high-minded practitioners of violence hurled
paint, bottles, and other missiles and shouted
obscenities and taunts at those who wanted
to attend a meeting of the Foreign Policy As-
sociation at which the Secretary of State was
the guest--and at the police who were trying
to protect a peaceable assembly.
It would have been peaceable except for
those who claimed they were for peace and
whom a New York Times editorial described
as "rampaging ... junior-grade storm
troopers."
The time to call a halt on this kind of
thing is at hand and Harvard University is
showing that it is ready to do it. In putting
70 students on probation for "forcible ob-
struction" of a job recruiter, President
Nathan Pusey said: "This kind of conduct
is simply unacceptable, not only in a com-
munity devoted to intellectual endeavor,
but, I would assume, in any decent, demo-
cratic society."
Let's not forget that there is no consti-
tutional guarantee of "free" assembly; the
guarantee is of peaceable" assembly.
COLLEGE REcaurrsn BLOCKING HIT
BETHLEHEM, PA., November 29.-The Col-
lege Placement Council urged colleges and
universities on Monday to block attempts by
small groups to obstruct campus job recruit-
ment.
The,statement from the nonprofit corpo-
ration representing the Regional Placement
Associations of the United States and' Can-
ada comes in the wake of a growing number
of student demonstrations nationwide.
CAMPUS PROTESTS
In recent weeks small groups sparked by
militant student organizations have pro-
tested campus visits by recruiters from cer-
tain companies and government agencies.
In some cases recruiters have been held
captive In interviewing rooms and automo-
biles for up to eight hours and students have
been blocked from taking interviews.
TO 1,000 COLLEGES
The statement by Up CPC sent to the pres-
idents of more than 1000 colleges and uni-
versities served by the organization, asks that
the rights of seniors to interview prospective
employers on campus be protected.
"The students are the ultimate losers when
on-campus recruiting is obstructed," Ray-
mond H. Stockard, director of placement at
the University of Rhode Island and current
president of the Council noted in the
statement.
THE PRESIDENT REVERSES HIS
FIELD
(Mr. ROBISON (at the request of Mr.
ZWACH) was granted permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. ROBISON. Mr. Speaker, President
Johnson's sudden-and unexpected-
shift in favor of Federal spending re-
straint will not do much to relieve the
fiscal "credibility gap" from which his
administration has suffered and may, in-
deed, magnify it, but at least it ought
to serve to break the deadlock that has
so far prevented Congress from consid-
ering the Johnson surtax proposal on its
merits; and I believe that such consid-
eration is long overdue.
This should not be taken to mean-
or to imply-that I am in favor of that
surtax proposal, for I shall first want to
see in what form it emerges, If it now
does, from the House Ways and Means
Committee, as well as to have more con-
create information concerning the Pres-
ident's rumored offer to cut Federal
spending dollar for dollar of additional
revenue raised, and then to relate both
matters to our domestic economic prob-
lems as-the same may have been altered
by Britain's decision to devalue the
pound.
As to that latter fact-which seems
to have caught our Government at least
partially by surprise-it seems to me it
should stand as a lesson for us in that
it again demonstrates that no govern-
ment, no matter how great and power-
ful, can forever live beyond Its means.
As. the Wall Street Journal said, edi-
torially, yesterday:
Federal finances are in a shocking state,
and Britain's step is a reminder that grave
distortions cannot be left forever uncorrected.
As a Republican-and as one House
Member who has taken an active part
in the Republican effort to obtain some
commitment from the President for re-
straint in Federal expenditures-I do not
consider Mr. Johnson's change of attitude
as a victory of any sort unless it be
victory for realism, and even that may
have come too late for the American
people who will apparently, now, have to
bear the brunt of both soaring inflation
and near-record high interest rates re-
gardless of the ultimate congressional
decision concerning a tax increase. And,
in my view, we have come to this unfor-
tunate state because of an equally de-
plorable lapse in leadership and responsi-
bility on the part of the current adminis-
tration which, long before this, should
have "seen the handwriting on the wall"
and taken positive action to avert the
impending fiscal crisis we now face both
at home and abroad.
Of course, the House has been stub-
born in its attempt to force an attitude
of restraint upon the President that it,
itself, has time and again proven to be
incapable of adopting-and both Houses
of Congress must accept the blame for
that latter fact-but there has simply
been no excuse for the kind of Institu-
tional breakdown between Congress and
President that this has-precipitated and
I believe Mr. Johnson, to borrow his own
recent phrase, "will live to rue the day"
when he permitted this to happen for,
no matter how you cut it, his is the
larger responsibility.
There can, equally, be no excuse for
the manner in which, this year, the nor-
mal appropriation processes have been
dragged out, or for the great uncertain-
ties that unfunded Federal agencies have
had to face, or for the "Payless pay-
days" Federal employees have had to
cope with-none of which conditions
would have happened if the President,
for some unknown and unfathomable
reason, had not seen fit to cut his own
line of communications with his own
nominal leaders in the Congress.
With the advent of Thanksgiving, I
think we can all be thankful that such
lines of communications have now been
at least partially restored and I, for one,
am perfectly willing to see Congress now
stay in session for the balance of this
year In order to consider and to take re-
sponsible action toward doing what we
can, late though the hour be, toward
straightening out the tangled fiscal af-
fairs of this Nation whose strength-
let us remember-does not rest on mili-
tary prowess alone.
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