Friday, October 10, 1969
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Seven
Washington Report
— By —
CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES
Last week tne principal
items of interest InWashington
concerned the military. First,
was the generally approved ac
tion of Secretary Stanley R.
Resor of the Department of the
Army in announcing that there
will be no prosecution of the
Green Berets in connection with
the disappearance of a Vietna
mese counter-spy. I am con
vinced that this action was a re
sult of Congressional protest
expressed by many of us. With
over 40,000 American men kill
ed in action—no doubt many of
them as a result of enemy es
pionage—it was Inconceivable
that criminal prosecution could
have been justified in the case
of these young men, acting in
what they considered to be the
best Interest of the security of
this nation.
Another military matter was
the House approval of the pro
curement authorization for air
craft, missiles, naval vessels
and tracked combat vehicles for
the Fiscal Year 1970. This au
thorization was for a total of
$21.3 billion. It is Important
to understand that this is still
an authorization and remains
to be approved by the Appro
priations Committee,as well as
requiring House consideration
of the Appropriations Commit
tee’s actton.
This year the Congress has
conducted a wider discussion
and a more careful considera
tion of the defense budget than
ever before. And this is as it
should be, for with the antici
pated total appropriation for
national defense for Fiscal
Year 1970 amounting to in ex
cess of $75 billion, it is incum
bent on the Congress to analyze
carefully the justification of
these requests. In addition,
these discussions provide a
more detailed explanation to the
public at large. Throu^ the
news media, the public is giv
en a much better understand
ing and knowledge of what ex
actly is involved in defending
this country and in keeping our
commitments with free nations
throughout the world.
Representative L. Mendel
Rivers, Chairman of the Arm
ed Services Committee, had
this to say: “World leader
ship is atou^business. Amer
ica has assumed this role of
world leadership, and we can
not forfeit it. We just cannot
forfeit this leadership. We are
the only ones who can handle it,
so now let us handle it.’’
The House considered the
military procurement authori
zation for three days, while
consideration of procurement
by theSenatetook 2-1/2 months.
The House approved version
was $1.8 billion less than the
request made by former Sec
retary Clifford in January, and
$663 million less than the a-
mount requested by Defense
Secretary Laird on April 15.
H. R. 13300 was a bill to a-
mend the Railroad Retirement
Act of 1937 to accomplish man
datory retirement and the ex
tension of supplemental an
nuities. This bill was a re
sult of an agreement between
over 80% of the membership
of the unions Involved and the
management of railroads. In
spite of this, most members
of Congress were flooded with
protests from non-affected un
ions urging the defeat of this
bill. Apparently these union
leaders were unaware that this
legislation was necessary to
validate any sort of an agree
ment, because the Federal Gov
ernment, throu^ previous
C ongressional action, is the ad
ministrator of this retirenient
svstem.
Many of you have forwarded
to this office pornographic ma
terial of the most repulsive and
perverted nature, received by
mail. On each occasion i nave
diligently called this to the at
tention of the Postmaster Gen
eral, as well as the Department
of Justice, demanding that some
action be taken. Finally, last
week the Post Office Depart
ment denied the use of rental
boxes to individuals who use
them for Immoral or improp
er purposes as determined by
the Department’s General
Council. In addition, eight
pubUshing firms have been ar
rested or Indicted on charges of
violating Federal or State por
nographic statutes. I hope that
this indicates an end to the
practice of using the malls for
the dissemination of this type
literature.
MIRROR
MORSELS
To a woman the first kiss is
just the end of the beginning; to
a man it is the beginning of the
end.—Helen Rowland.
A fine aid to . mental peace
is to think about a person whom
you admire, one who is good and
strong. All of us know some
people whose very presence
gives us strength and courage.
—Dr. Charles L. Allen.
It pleases me to think, and
there can be no harm In so
thinking, beyond, perhaps, the
grieving of the sober-minded
and the outraging of the pro
fessors and possibly the olog-
lans whose souls have been dry-
kilned, that the wind is pleased
When anybody plants a blade of
grass.—Ben Dixon MacNelll.
Fishing is a delusion entire
ly surrounded by liars in old
clothes.—Don Marquis.
Some people can stay longer
in an hour than others can in a
week.—William Dean Howells.
Health is the thing that makes
you feel that now is the best
time of the year.—Franklin P.
Adams.
When a young man complains
that a younglady has noheart,it
is pretty certain that she has
his.—George D. Prentice.
A hole is nothing at all, but
you can break your neck in it.
—Austin O’Malley.
Hollywood is a place where
people from Iowa mistake each
other for movie stars.--Fred
AUen.
Knowledge always desires in
crease; it is like fire, which
first must be kindled by some
external agent, but which will
afterwards propagate itself.—
Samuel Johnson.
You grow up the day you nave
your first real laugh at your-
self--Ethel Barrymore.
I haven’t got as much money
as some folks, but I’ve got as
much impudence as any ofthem,
and that’s the next thing to
money.—Josh Billings.
Women’s intuition is a result
of millions of years of not think
ing.—Rupert Hughes.
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