It is now a statistical reality that the lifespan of Americans has increased in recent years as the result of advances in medicine. And Congress in its wisdom has in recent weeks enacted legislation which will bring proper medical care within the economic reach of all our elder citizens. Modest financial circumstances should no longer be an obstacle for older Americans who are in need of medical care. As Americans live longer and as medical care for the aged is assured, it would seem logical to follow that the health manpower requirements of the Nation are correspondingly increased.

Mr. Chairman, the time has, therefore, come for us to shift our attention from the beneficiaries of medical technology and advancement to the technicians themselves. These are the people upon whom is placed the responsibility of providing to all who seek their services the knowledge, the skill, and the care of the medical arts and sciences. The result of this shift of attention is startling, indeed. As the result of extensive hearings and careful study, our own Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce states that even to begin to meet the Nation's health needs, the number of new dentists must increase by at least 100 percent. In addition, the number of new physicians must increase by at least 50 percent over the next 10-year period. This means that to meet the estimated need for medical school graduates by 1975, there must be some 12,700 first-year places by 1971 to train the 11,500 medical school graduates needed for 1975. Taking the most optimistic view of the current expansion program of medical medical school facilities, we are still faced with the problem of providing approximately 2,600 first-year places. And we must act now to support the need for such new first-year student places.

This shortage in the medical and dental professions is also being felt in the fields of osteopathy and optometry.

Just how much of the shortage of personnel in the health professions is due to the tremendous increase in the cost of obtaining such professional education is of course a matter of some conjecture. There is little doubt, however, that many are discouraged from seeking a health professional school education because of the high cost involved. This is unfortunate for many of our brilliant students who otherwise would seek a career in medicine or dentistry. It is also a serious loss to our health professional schools, the health professions, and the people who are deprived of their services.

As in other fields of endeavor, the student of low income should not be deprived or handicapped in his quest for health professional training merely because of the fact that he does not come from an affluent family.

Madam Chairman, by means of the legislation we are now considering, a more nearly equal opportunity would be provided the low-income student to enter one of the health professions of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, or optometry. This measure would significantly improve

fessional schools in the annual competition for outstanding students. It would help to meet the increased demand for health services throughout the Nation.

In addition to providing educational improvement grants and scholarship grants to schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, and optometry, and to improve the quality of their educational prove the quality of their educational programs, H.R. 3141 would also provide programs, H.R. 3141 would also provide needed assistance in furthering the education of the members of the public health professions. There is a rapidly health professions. There is a rapidly growing need for well-trained and competent public health physicians, dentists, nurses, engineers, statisticians, and others. It is significant that throughout the 50 States there are only 13 schools of public health, and the 13th which was recently started at the University of Hawaii, is now awaiting accreditation of Hawaii, is now awaiting accreditation action. We in Hawaii are naturally proud of our leadership in the public health field, and we are looking forward to the day when we can also add a fully to the day when we can also add a fully accredited accredited 4-year medical school to our expanding health educational facilities at the University of Hawaii. With Federal programs such as this we may in the near future serve as the health center of the Pacific.

Madam Chairman, I strongly urge a favorable vote for H.R. 3141.

Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin. Madam Chairman, I make the point of order that a quorum is not present.

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Wisconsin makes the point of order that a quorum is not present. The Chair will count.

Mr. HARRIS. Madam Chairman, I Madam Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.

The motion was agreed to.

Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker having resumed the chair, the Speaker having resumed the chair, Mrs. GRIFFITHS, Chairman of the Com

mittee of the Whole House on the State

of the Union, reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 3141) to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the educational quality of schools of medicine, cational quality of schools of medicine, dentistry, and osteopathy, to authorize grants under that act to such schools for the awarding of scholarships to needy students, and to extend expiring provisions of that act for student loans and for aid in construction of teaching facilities for students in such schools and schools for other health professions, and for other purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO
COMMITTEES

Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration.

The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

H. RES. 558

bers be, and they are hereby, elected members of the following standing committees of the House of Representatives:

Resolved, That the following-named Mem

Committee on Government Operations: ROBERT DOLE, of Kansas.

Committee on Rules: DELBERT L. LATTA, of

Ohio.

The resolution was agreed to.

A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

STEEL INDUSTRY AND LABOR ACTING IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Oklahoma?

There was no objection.

Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, the whole country was elated to learn last night of an 8-day postponement of a strike in the steel industry and of the willingness on the part of both labor and management to continue negotiations for this period. We compliment them for this constructive decision. Both sides showed real tive decision. concern for the national interest when they were willing to back away from a showdown to which both had apparently been committed. We compliment also the President of the United States as well as the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor upon their work in helping to persuade the parties immediately concerned that to continue negotiations to settlement is in the interest of the steel industry and of the country.

The steel industry is enjoying a period of great prosperity. Its net earnings were 36 percent higher during the first 6 months of 1965 than they were during the corresponding period in 1964. The steel industry is sharing in the great prosperity which this Nation now enjoys.

Steel is a basic industry. A strike in this industry would have grave effects on the national economy and the national of the 1959 strike. We urge both labor defense. We are still feeling the effects and management to let free collective bargaining operate, to stay in Washington and to use every minute of the next 8

days to effect a just and equitable settlement, to approach the problem in the postponement of a showdown last night, same spirit with which they agreed to a to keep the mills working and in the end to continue to make their indispensable contribution to the national economy and the national defense.

LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT FROM

A MARINE CORPORAL IN VIET-
NAM

Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Louisiana?

There was no objection.

Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I take this time to read a very moving letter dated the 23d of August this year from a corporal in the Marine Corps to the President of the United States.

AUGUST 23, 1965. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I'm writing this letter from Qui Nhon, Vietnam. I'm a cor

poral serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. I have my speculations as to whether you'll see this letter, but someone will. This let

ter has no special reason-just a simple letter from a marine serving his country.

First, I'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve my country and my God, although I wish there were no war and no killing. This undoubtedly is the most important thing I have ever done, and God willing, the most important thing I will do in my entire life. I feel very proud and privileged fighting this war in Vietnam because it gives me the feeling of repayment. Repayment to what? To you, Mr. President, and to the great free country I was reared in. Many people-both men and women-have risked, and in many instances died, to keep our country free from communism. Now it is my turn and I have pledged my life to defend our country. I am but a minute part of the fighting force we have over here, but I feel that every man plays an important part in this war. Every one of us is fighting for one thing-freedom. Some will never see home again, but they will not have died in vain. They will have died for a reason-one that is worth every man that is lost. Wars are not won without losses. They never have been, nor will they ever be.

There are many misconceptions about the American college student. Many feel that he cares nothing about Vietnam and the servicemen here. He understands what is going on. He too has an important role in this war for he may be the man who reaches the solution leading to our victory. Without teachers, chemists, engineers, and so forth how would we be able to fight-and win-this conflict? We wouldn't. Without him we'd be defeated. Yes, "Mr. Joe College" is serving an important part in this war-as important as every man over here.

Well, Mr. President, I think I've said enough-maybe more than I should havebut I wanted you to know how a serviceman feels, as I'm sure many do, about fighting in Vietnam.

Respectfully,

DENNIS L. STEFANACCI.

The letter, Mr. Speaker, speaks for itself.

CONTINUANCE OF NATIONAL
CEMETERIES

Mr. GROVER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute, to revise and extend my remarks, and to include extraneous matter.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New York?

There was no objection.

Mr. GROVER. Mr. Speaker, it came to my attention last year, during a routine inquiry regarding water main easements over U.S. Government property at the Pinelawn National Cemetery, that a Presidential study commission had recommended a "phaseout" of the time-honored national cemetery system.

A quiet pronouncement from the Quartermaster Corps confirmed the administration's intention to follow that recommendation.

It is tragic shortsightedness which permits us to ask a young man to dedicate himself in life, and perhaps death, to militant defense of freedom, and yet deny him the simplest and most sacred of national honors, burial in a part of America especially set aside for those who served.

Mr. Speaker, I have introduced today a joint resolution which expresses the policy and intent of the Congress that

the national cemeteries be continued and expanded.

I trust that my colleagues will join with me in mutual enthusiasm in support of this resolution.

H.J. RES. 648

Whereas it is the policy and intent of Congress that a grateful Government of the United States in recognition of the loyalty, patriotism and zeal of American servicemen in war and peace, maintain, enlarge and expand a system of national cemeteries and continue the historic tradition, honor and privilege of interment in a part of our beloved country so specifically dedicated: Therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act be cited as the "National Cemeteries Act of 1965".

Sec. 2. No new national cemetery shall be established, and no existing national cemetery shall be enlarged, except in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 3. (a) There is hereby established a National Cemeteries Site Selection Advisory Board, the members of which shall be two Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, two Members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, and five members appointed by the President of the United States. Of the members appointed by the President, at least one member must be a veteran (as that status is defined in sec. 101(2) of title 38, United States Code) who is active in veterans affairs, and, at any one time, not more than two members may be officers or employees of an executive department or agency of the Federal Government. (b) Members of the Board appointed by the President who are officers or employees of an executive department or agency of the Federal Government shall hold office at the pleasure of the President. The other members of the Board appointed by the President shall hold office for a term of five years, except that the President shall designate shorter terms of office for such other members first appointed so that no more than one term of office will terminate in the same year.

(c) Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.

(d) The members of the Board shall elect a Chairman from among their number and employ an Executive Secretary whose salary shall be such amount (but not to exceed the maximum rate provided by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended) as may be fixed by the Board. The Board may employ such other persons as it finds necessary for the conduct of its business and procure contract services in accordance with section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C.

55a).

(e) Each member of the Board appointed by the President who is not an officer or employee of an executive department or agency of the United States shall receive $50 per diem when engaged in the performance of the duties vested in the Board. All other members of the Board shall serve without compensation in addition to that received from their services in the executive branch

of the Federal Government or as Members of Congress, as the case may be. Each member of the Board while engaged away from his home or regular place of business in the performance of the duties vested in the Board may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subAdministrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. sistence, as authorized by section 5 of the 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(f) The Secretary of the Army shall assign, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable the Army to assist the Board, and shall aid basis, such personnel of the Department of

it in such other manner, as the Board requests and as is compatible with the other duties of such Department.

SEC. 4. (a) The Board shall advise and report to the Congress on the suitability of any site proposed for use as a national cemetery. In so doing, it shall make an estimate of the cost of establishing or enlarging, as the case may be, the national cemetery, and it shall take into account the location of the proposed site, the number of people residing within a convenient distance from the proposed site who are eligible for burial in a national cemetery, the proximity and accessibility of other national cemeteries, the need for the establishment of additional national cemeteries or the enlargement of existing ones, and other pertinent factors.

(b) A copy of the Board's report on each proposal for the establishment or enlargement of a national cemetery shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Army. The Board shall not recommend the establishment or enlargement of a national cemetery if the estimated cost to the United States for land acquisition and development is more than $1,000,000. If the Board's report recommends the establishment or enlargement of a national cemetery the Secretary of the Army shall report to the Congress his concurrence or nonconcurrence in the Board's recommendations within sixty days of his receipt of the Board's report. If the Secretary reports nonconcurrence in the recommendations of the Board, he shall state his reasons therefor.

(c) If the Secretary of the Army concurs in the recommendations of the Board, he may acquire the site and proceed with its development as a national cemetery, as soon as the necessary funds become available for that purpose.

SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary of the Army may accept, on behalf of the United States, donations of land and of funds for the development, operation, and maintenance of national cemeteries, in accordance with this Act, expend such funds for the purposes for which they are donated, and return unexpended and uncommitted portions thereof to the donors if those purposes cannot be carried out. He may also accept transfers of jurisdiction over land (including public land) owned by the United States and useful for national cemetery purposes, and the head of any executive department or agency of the Federal Government having jurisdiction over such land is authorized to transfer it to the Secretary of the Army for this purpose.

(b) The Secretary of the Army shall, whenever an offer of donation of land or of money for the purchase of land for a national cemetery is made to him, or whenever land owned by the United States becomes available for this purpose, notify the National Cemeteries Site Selection Advisory Board.

SEC. 6. The following provisions of law are hereby repealed: Sections 4870, 4871, and 4872 of the Revised Statutes (24 U.S.C. 271, 272, 273); the Act of June 29, 1938 (24 U.S.C.. 271a); the Act of August 4, 1947 (24 U.S.C. 281a-c); the Act of March 10, 1950 (24 U.S.C. 281d-f); and the Act of August 10, 1950 (24 U.S.C. 281g).

SEC. 7. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the development of lands which were acquired or designated for national cemetery purposes before the date of enactment of this Act.

IN L.B.J.-LAND

Mr. CABELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to include extraneous matter.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas?

There was no objection.

Mr. CABELL. Mr. Speaker, Presidential libraries provide a uniquely valuable means for the training of the future leaders of our Nation.

The wisdom of establishing these invaluable aids to learning and the particular value of designating the University of Texas as the site for President Johnson's papers is aptly demonstrated by the following editorials which appeared on August 11 in the Dallas Times Herald and the Dallas Morning News. Because of the helpful insight they contain, I ask consent to place them in the RECORD at this point.

THE PRESS HAILS PRESIDENT

JOHNSON'S APPOINTMENT OF LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN AS POSTMASTER GENERAL

Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute, to revise and extend my remarks, and to include extraneous matter.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Massachusetts?

There was no objection.

11, 1965]

IN L.B.J.-LAND

The University of Texas, close to "the President's country," is a logical site, both geographically and academically, for a Johnsonian Presidential Library. The possibility of a post-retirement professorship for L.B.J. would be an additional coup for the University of Texas.

The proposed Lyndon B. Johnson Library should become a focal point for scholarly and historic research. Because of the President's unusually long and distinctive political career, the library will doubtless contain a more extensive trove of official papers and memorabilia than any Presidential library yet.

The university's board of regents rates an "A" for planning and foresight, for presenting the President not only with an offer to build an impressive physical plant to house

the library but also to establish a Lyndon

B. Johnson Institute of Public Service-a future institution of learning to further political and governmental acumen in a manner no doubt dear to the heart of a famous former schoolteacher. The university, the State and the Nation are to be beneficiaries of this historically significant center.

[From the Dallas Morning News, Aug. 11, 1965]

JOHNSON INSTITUTE

Selection of the University of Texas at Austin for the Presidential library and archives of the Johnson administration is an

excellent one. It will be further enhanced by early establishment of the Lyndon B. Johnson Institute of Public Service in connection with it.

Regents of the university headed by W. W. Heath of Austin, joined by Chancellor Harry Ransom, have outlined the whole project which, in cooperation with other institutions of higher learning, should prove a notable advance in the postgraduate training of leaders in the field of public service.

The main building to be opened by January of 1969 will be located on 14 acres of university land yet to be announced. One possibility is a magnificent site on Lake Austin on acreage given to the university years ago by the late Col. George W. Breckenridge of San Antonio.

The study and research center to contain the papers of Lyndon B. Johnson will be a fitting complement to libraries already completed or authorized for all past Presidents beginning with Herbert Hoover. It is a wise and fruitful development under the National Archives of the Nation.

The President is rumored as wanting to lecture at the university in the field of politics. If he does, that course ought to pack them in. The field of public service needs a continuing flow of young talent.

newsmen across the Nation.

It is easy to understand the praise that has been and is being accorded by the Washington Press Corps and by journalists in his native State of Massachusetts. It comes from a natural affection for him. They respect his honesty and directness. They like his style. They appreciate his effectiveness.

Mr. Speaker, many times in the past, Larry O'Brien has been cited by outstanding columnists and newsmen for the effectiveness of his work. His appointment to the President's Cabinet is the subject of current words of praise.

Under unanimous consent, I insert in the RECORD, a splendid article by Tom Wicker, chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times and editorials from the Washington Post, and Springfield, Mass., Union:

[From the New York Times, Aug. 31, 1965] POLITICS: THE MAN WHO DELIVERED THE GOODS

(By Tom Wicker) WASHINGTON, August 30.-Larry O'Brien is a man in the finest traditions of our many former Postmasters General. He knows nothing whatever about delivering the mail, but he is an absolutely professional politician who has shown two Presidents that he knows how to deliver the goods-both on election day and when the roll is called up yonder on the Hill.

O'BRIEN'S TECHNIQUE

General O'Brien-as something in excess of 20,000 personal friends soon will be entitled to call him—is a smiling Irishman who would not be caught dead saying "yes" or "no" if 150 other words could be substituted to the same effect. He has made just enough enemies in 4 years in Washington to crowd a telephone booth, and he is admired in both parties for his political organizing genius and for his effective work on behalf of the Kennedy-Johnson legislative program.

O'Brien's contribution to the practice of modern politics was simple but revolutionary. After decades when political bosses in cities and States alike had operated on the theory of keeping the electorate as small and manageable as possible to keep to a minimum the risk of unruly voters getting out of hand-O'Brien took the opposite view. In the three major campaigns he ran for John Kennedy (no matter who was the titular campaign boss), he brought as many people into action as possible-by registering new voters, by organizing masses of volunteer workers, by seeking out voters where candidates never had looked before.

So massive has been the legislative achievement of the Johnson administration that it

is customary to give most of the credit to the President himself. He deserves a lot of it, but O'Brien the congressional liaison chief for both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, has played a larger role than is generally realized.

IMPROVED LOBBYING

In the first place, under his leadership the White House lobbying activity has been better organized and more efficient. It has acquired more personnel, more autonomy, more respect and more legitimacy than any similar operation in the past, and therefore, it is an improved, if not a new, tool of Presidential power.

It is Washington folklore, for instance, that in 1964 Mr. Johnson salvages the tax cut and civil rights bills Mr. Kennedy had not been able to get through Congress before his death in 1963. In fact, Mr. Kennedy had predicted "an 18-month delivery" for 1964 and it probably always will be a question whether O'Brien's spadework might not have produced these measures had Mr. Kennedy lived; O'Brien thinks the bills would have passed in any case.

Even this year, with the massive majorities provided by the election of 1964, O'Brien's work with Congress has been vital to Mr. Johnson. The key element in any lobbying program is to understand the legislation thoroughly; only then can be it presented to a legislator in such a way as to make him see that it will help him politicallyor at least not hurt him so much as he has thought. O'Brien and his staff-far from relying, as myth would have it, on twisted arms, patronage, and the pork barrel-have made this process of study and persuasion one of the President's most formidable weapons in seeking such controversial items as the rental subsidy in the housing bill or the voting rights act.

All of that is more or less public. In a more personal and private matter, Larry O'Brien also delivered the goods early in 1964. The sharpest of the transition from John Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson was then past. Ted Sorensen was leaving the White House staff; Kenneth O'Donnell wanted to; Pierre Salinger would leave in the spring.

AVERTING POSSIBLE DISASTER

If at that moment the popular and respected O'Brien also had resigned-so members of the old Kennedy staff said privatelythere would have been a wholesale exodus, damaging Mr. Johnson in two ways. It would have appeared to signal a lack of confidence in him that could have been disastrous in an election year; it might have left him with too few experienced men to run either the White House or the coming campaign.

But Larry O'Brien stayed, in one of the crucial acts of a crucial time, one of many for which he deserves the respect in which he is held here. He will still have that respect at the Post Office Department; he will still be delivering the goods next election day, and if past achievements are any guide he may even get the mail delivered twice a day.

[From the Washington (D.C.) Post,
Aug. 31, 1965]

O'BRIEN FOR GRONOUSKI Lawrence F. O'Brien, President Johnson's new nominee as Postmaster General, is among the best liked, hardest working and most quietly effective public officials in this Capital. He has served two Presidents as legislative assistant with rare discretion and devotion, and he has managed to win the respect and affection of Congress in the process. If the contention is accepted that the Postmaster Generalship is fundamentally a political job, Larry O'Brien is a splendid choice to succeed John A. Gronouski, whom the President has selected to be Ambassador to Poland.

It can be argued that departmental morale might be improved by taking someone from the career postal service. But this is not always a satisfactory course; and on the other hand, some of the most conspicuously successful Postmasters General have been political appointees. James A. Farley, for example, was a political strategist and patronage dispenser, but an innovator in terms of the service. Fresh ideas sometimes come best from the outside.

Cabinet posts, moreover, are essentially political by nature. The Post Office, among all Cabinet departments, is particularly one in which Members of Congress are disposed to assert a proprietary interest. Mr. Gronouski, with his academic background, was perhaps not quite vigorous enough in stand

ing up to Congress on one or two occasions. Mr. O'Brien's knowledge of the ways of Capitol Hill should make him adroit at dealing with the various congressional interventions.

The selection of Mr. Gronouski as the new Ambassador to Poland may or may not pay direct dividends. For a while last winter American relations with the Communist

government in Warsaw were somewhat

strained, partly because of the war in Vietnam and partly because of internal developments in Poland. These difficulties may not be easily remediable. At the same time, the nomination of a Cabinet officer who speaks Polish should be flattering and is a testimonial to the strong ties with the Polish people. Obviously it should not be regarded as a precedent for the fatuous practice of selecting an envoy merely because of his ethnic origin. But in this case the appointment is a tangible expression of President Johnson's wish to build bridges to Eastern Europe.

For all his other attributes, Mr. Gronouski is hardly yet trained to carry on the intermittent dialog with Communist China that has taken place through Ambassadors in Warsaw. Retiring Ambassador John M. Cabot has been conducting these meetings with the assistance of Alfred Jenkins, a Chinese language expert from the American Embassy in Stockholm. So far they have not been very productive, but the contact is useful for the time when the Chinese may seriously want to talk. Actually, though, there is no reason why the locale could not be shifted to another capital.

Altogether the two appointments seem admirable. And what names O'Brien and Gronouski-could be more typical of the mixture of backgrounds that characterizes

America.

President's successful campaign for the White House in 1960. That was a victory, too, for "Larry" O'Brien as national director of organization for John Kennedy. He became Presidential Assistant for Personnel and for Liaison with Congress. Last year he handled the organizational chore for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket, and has continued to serve President Johnson as assistant for congressional relations. In the Bay State, the O'Brien-Kennedy meeting took place in the late forties, when the future President was U.S. Representative from a Boston district. The O'Brien touch was applied as John Kennedy's organization director in his successful Senate campaigns of 1952

and 1958.

One effect of the new appointment will be the loss to the President of a strong right arm in congressional relations-though Mr. Johnson's own background in Congress should continue to be effective. Another effect will be a change in the political outlook for 1966 in Massachusetts. "Larry" O'Brien commands great respect, as an individual, in Democratic councils; and his closeness to the Kennedy family is not to be overlooked. So, when the word spread that he was interested in State office there was a ripple of distress within the party. The waters may now settle a bit, but there are still some sharp contests in sight for 1966.

The prospects are that Postmaster General O'Brien will be a most worthy successor to John Gronouski, who is resigning the Cabinet post to become Ambassador to Poland. The Post Office Department will be in the hands of a master organizer and, as his associates know, a gentleman.

THE

TWIGGS COUNTY HOSPITAL

Mr. CALLAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Georgia?

There was no objection.

Mr. CALLAWAY. Mr. Speaker, many times this Congress has seen itself divided on the question of whether the Federal Government or the local governments can best help solve the people's problems-when help is required. I have always stood with those who assert that local problems are best handled by the government closest to the people, and

1965]

CABINET POST FOR O'BRIEN

The appointment of Lawrence F. O'Brien as Postmaster General of the United States is bound to win the endorsement of Americans, inside and outside his party, who know his personal qualities and his talent for organization. But nowhere will approval be heartier than in his home State of Massachusetts and his home city of Springfield.

"Larry" O'Brien's political acumen was known in Springfield some three decades ago.

This was the gift that was to make him "key legislative architect of the New Frontier," as President Johnson phrased it when he announced the appointment Sunday. "I know of no single individual," the President added, "who has contributed more to the enactment of legislation that touches on the lives of so many Americans." He pointed to measures

ranging "from voting rights to medicare, from tax cuts to the war on poverty, from Peace Corps to education." The O'Brien influence is known to anyone at all familiar with the Kennedy administration-and the

Johnson administration to date.

The names of O'Brien and Kennedy were linked on a national scale during the late

a remarkable example of this philosophy in action.

In Twiggs County, a small, rural, south Georgia community, the citizens are singlehandedly raising funds to build themselves a long and badly needed hospital. They have set high standards for their hospital; they plan to have the most modern medical facilities, and such added features as oxygen piped into each room. After raising $54,000 to complete the cost of the building, the citizens found that in order to meet State requirements, an additional $30,000 would be needed. So again, the community alone set out to raise the added money-and is now very close to its goal.

I tell this story, Mr. Speaker, in the

hope that it will be an inspiration to other communities to follow Twiggs County's example. I tell it because I find so few in Washington who believe that local people can act for themselves without Federal aid. But here is a farm community that for years has had only

one doctor, now in his 80's, and that is badly in need of more doctors and a hospital. All on their own, without a word to Uncle Sam, they have taken up the fight to build a hospital and attract more doctors. I have no doubt that they shall succeed.

WINNING AT THE POST OFFICE

DEPARTMENT

Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

to the request of the gentleman from The SPEAKER. Is there objection Maryland?

There was no objection.

Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, we all heard with more than average interest that our man at the White House, Larry O'Brien, will leave his present post as assistant to the President for congressional relations and become Postmaster General. We all wish him well, because a finer fellow never twisted an arm in Washington.

Some commentators have chosen to view the O'Brien appointment from a partisan perspective. They say he is being shifted to a position where his undoubted organizational genius can be better employed for the benefit of the Democratic Party.

I reject this narrow view. What the Postmaster General does in his spare time is his own affair, but in business hours Larry O'Brien will devote all his talent to the public business. The Post Office needs a lot of attention, to keep the whole Department from becoming a dead-letter office.

This package was mailed last Thursday in New York by air parcel post-and it was not delivered to my office until Monday. The flight from New York to Washington takes 1 hour. I hope Larry O'Brien can find out where that package was during the other 95 hours in transit.

Yesterday a constituent reported that letters take 6 days to get from New York to Hagerstown, Md. Today another told me that mail from Baltimore to Hagerstown, a distance of about 70 miles, takes 3 days. That is a speed of about 1 mile an hour. Many residents in new developments in Montgomery County, Md. have virtually no mail service at all.

Winning at the Post Office Department could well be Larry O'Brien's toughest campaign. But a man who has "delivered the goods" for two administrations should be able to deliver the mail. I say good luck, Mr. Postmaster General. Good nonpartisan luck-you will need it.

THE PARKVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

BAND

Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan

imous consent to address the House for

1 minute and to revise and extend my remarks.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri?

There was no objection.