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The original documents are located in Box D30, folder "Delaware County Chamber of
Commerce, Media, PA, October 6, 1970" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press
Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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DELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 7 P.M. TUESDAY
OCTOBER 6, 1970
all wing
WE ARE NEARING THE END OF THE
FIRST YEAR OF A NEW DECADE. WE ARE PASSING
THROUGH THE GATEWAY OF THE SEVENTIES.
WE ARE MOVING ONTO THE PATHWAY OF PROGRESS--
PROGRESS TOWARD PEACE, PROSPERITY AND
PLENTY
THE GREAT PROBLEMS OF THE SIXTIES
ARE YIELDING TO THE SOLUTIONS OF THE
SEVENTIES.
Speciate
SIZABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN
to
TOWARD PEACE WITH HONOR IN VIETNAM.
THERE ARE CLEAR SIGNS OF SUCCESS
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION. WE ARE
WINNING THAT FIGHT AND WE ARE IN THE
EARLY STAGES OF A NEW ERA OF GROWTH IN THE
ECONOMY.
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
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AND DESPITE SOME RELUCTANCE ON THE
PART OF SOME IN CONGRESS, WE ARE MOVING
TO REFORM THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
CONDITIONS LEFT OVER FROM THE PAST,
CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE NO PLACE IN THE
UNITED STATES OF THE SEVENTIES.
BUT GOVERNMENT CANNOT ACHIEVE GOALS
OR PRIORITIES ALONE IT CAN REACH ITS
MAJOR OBJECTIVES ONLY WITH THE HELP OF THE
PRIVATE SECTOR, ONLY BY DRAWING UPON THE
STRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF PRIVATE
ENTERPRISE. IT CAN ACHIEVE NATIONAL GOALS
ONLY AS IT IS AIDED BY BUSINESS AND
INDUSTRY, THE ACADEMIC WORLD, AND BY ALL
OF OUR CITIZENS.
$COTT
WE ARE GATHERED HERE TO HONOR AN
OUTSTANDING DELAWARE COUNTY CITIZEN TONIGHT.
IN HONORING JOSEPH SEGEL WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE
THE TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION THAT THE FREE
FORD
ENTERPRISE SYSTEM HAS MADE TO THIS COUNTRY.
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AND, BRINGING THE SUBJECT CLOSER TO HOME,
WE TAKE NOTE OF THE DAZZLING RECORD OF
PROGRESS MADE BY INDUSTRY IN DELAWARE
COUNTY--NOT ONLY ECONOMIC PROGRESS BUT
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD THE
SOLUTION OF SUCH CRITICAL NATIONAL PROBLEMS
AS HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION.
AT THIS POINT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT
OUT THAT INDUSTRY IN DELAWARE COUNTY HAS
A GREAT AND POWERFUL FRIEND IN THE CONGRESS.
I AM SPEAKING, OF COURSE, OF THE MOST I
POWERFUL SENATOR EVER TO REPRESENT THE
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE HONORABLE HUGH
SCOTT. HUGH SCOTT SPEAKS FOR PENNSYLVANIA
INDUSTRY IN WASHINGTON AS NO OTHER SENATOR
HAS EVER SPOKEN FOR IT. HE IS KEENLY AWARE
OF THE FOREIGN IMPORT PROBLEM. HE IS
EVER CONCERNED ABOUT THE BEST INTERESTS
SAREWILLINS
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
WATKINS
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HUGH, I AM SURE, JOINS ME IN
CONGRATULATING THE DELAWARE COUNTY CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE FOR ITS SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENTS
IN TRAINING THE HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED
THROUGH THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE
BUSINESS SECTOR PROGRAM AND IN COMMENDING
DELAWARE COUNTY INDUSTRY FOR ITS SPECIAL
EMPHASIS ON POLLUTION CONTROL.
I CONGRATULATE YOU BECAUSE YOU
HAVE BECOME INVOLVED. YOU ARE PROVING
THAT BUSINESS AND BUSINESSMEN CAN DO WHAT
NO OTHER SEGMENT OF AMERICA CAN DO TO
BENEFIT OUR PEOPLE-ATTACK HARD-CORE
UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE BEST KIND OF
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING AND FIGHT INDUSTRIAL
POLLUTION THROUGH YOUR OWN BEST EFFORTS.
YOU GENTLEMEN KNOW THAT FEDERAL
TAX DOLLARS OR, EVEN WORSE, FEDERAL DEFICIT
SPENDING, CANNOT BUY SOLUTIONS TO OUR
MOST CRUCIAL NATIONAL PROBLEMS. THAT IS
FORD is LIBRARY GERALD
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WHY THE CHAMBER'S JOB SALESMEN HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO SECURE JOB PLEDGES FOR MORE THAN
600 HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED IN DELAWARE COUNTY
OVER THE PAST 18 MONTHS. AND THAT IS WHY
YOU HAVE MOVED ON YOUR OWN TO JOIN IN THE
FIGHT AGAINST THE POISONING OF OUR
ENVIRONMENT.
THE BEST PROOF IS HERE--RIGHT HERE--
THAT UNEMPLOYMENT AND OTHER URBAN PROBLEMS
CAN BEST BE SOLVED THROUGH A STRONG
PARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT.
I THINK WE CAN AGREE ON ONE
PRINCIPLE OF BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT
PROBLEM-SOLVING AT THE OUTSET.
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE CAN MAKE MAJOR
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
BUT BUSINESS'S CENTRAL PURPOSE HAS TO BE
TO MAKE A PROFIT. THAT'S WHAT IT EXISTS
FOR. THAT IS ITS REASON FOR BEING. IT
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CANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE ON ALL THE COSTS OF
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT. SO WHAT
WE ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT IS
COOPERATION--CONTINUING COOPERATION
BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS WHICH
RESULTS IN A SUCCESSFUL PROBLEM-SOLVING
PARTNERSHIP.
THAT'S THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIP WE
HAVE IN THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE
BUSINESS SECTOR PROGRAM. THE J.O.B.S.
PROGRAM IS AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF THE
SOUND AND CREATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL
PROBLEMS THAT ARE NEEDED IN THE SEVENTIES.
GOVERNMENT'S ROLE SHOULD BE TO
PROVIDE THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS FOR BUSINESS
TO DO THE JOB UNDER CONDITIONS COMPATIBLE
WITH THE PROFIT INCENTIVE.
UNDER THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION,
GOVERNMENT HAS DONE EXACTLY THAT--AND
BUSINESS HAS RESPONDED BY TAKING THE LEAD
IN MEETING THE MAJOR NATIONAL PROBLEM OF
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HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT.
BUSINESS IS DOING A MAGNIFICENT
JOB WITH THE J.O.B.S. PROGRAM. THIS
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, AND IT IS
A CONTINUING SUCCESS.
SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN, J.O.B.S.
EMPLOYERS HAVE HIRED AND TRAINED NEARLY
500,000 DISADVANTAGED PERSONS.
J.O.B.S. IS ONE OF EIGHT MANPOWER
TRAINING PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT. IT IS A VITAL PART OF AN
OVERALL MANPOWER TRAINING EFFORT WHICH SAW
NEARLY 736,000 AMERICANS ENROLLED IN WORK
AND TRAINING PROGRAMS AT THE END OF AUGUST,
THE LATEST AVAILABLE FIGURE. THAT WAS
79,000 MORE ENROLLMENTS THAN IN AUGUST 1969,
AN INCREASE OF 12 PER CENT.
THE GREATEST INCREASE WAS IN THE
J.O.B.S. PROGRAM. EMPLOYMENT UNDER
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CONTRACT PROGRAMS REACHED A NEW HIGH OF
50,000, AND EMPLOYMENT UNDER NON-CONTRACT
PROGRAMS UNDER THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
BUSINESSMEN CLIMBED TO 180,000, FOR A
COMBINED TOTAL OF 230,000,
I L'EARNED JUST BEFORE COMING HERE
THAT IF YOU ADD UP ALL THE PERSONS WHO
HAVE EVER RECEIVED TRAINING UNDER FEDERAL
MANPOWER WORK AND TRAINING PROGRAMS THE
FIGURE IS A STAGGERING 1,035,000 THROUGH
JUNE 1970. AT THE END OF FISCAL 1970,
THE FIGURE TOPPED A MILLION FOR THE FIRST
TIME.
AS I SAID EARLIER, BUSINESS IS
MAKING A TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THIS
SPLENDID EFFORT AIMED AT GIVING DIGNITY
AND A DECENT LIVELIHOOD TO HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS. THE
ENTIRE NATION HAS BENEFITED.
GEBRALA FORD LIBRARY
BUSINESS CAN BE SAID TO HAVE COME
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OF AGE IN TERMS OF CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP.
IT HAS PASSED WITH A SUPERB SCORE THE TEST
OF AIDING THE DISADVANTAGED.
BUT WHAT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS? THAT WILL BE A TEST MORE SEVERE
THAN ANY OTHER FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.
IS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IGNORING
THE POLLUTION OF OUR ATMOSPHERE, THE WATER
WE DRINK AND THE AIR WE BREATHE, THE WANTON
DESTRUCTION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT?
THERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE
AMERICA BELIEVE SO. BUT THEY ARE DEAD
WRONG. THEY ARE WRONG ON THE FACTS, AND
THEY ARE WRONG IN THEIR APPROACH TO THE
PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN RESTORING OUR
ENVIRONMENT.
I AGREE WITH THOSE WHO SET TOUGH
GOALS FOR INDUSTRY TO REACH--WHO SEEK A
POLLUTION-FREE AUTOMOBILE ENGINE BY 1975 OR
'76.
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BUT BEAR IN MIND THAT IT WAS NOT
UNTIL THE 1950's THAT AUTOMOTIVE FUELS
WERE FOUND TO BE ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES
OF SMOG. WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS
IN MEETING THE PROBLEM SINCE THEN.
THE 1970 CARS, FOR INSTANCE, EMIT
ONLY A FRACTION OF THE POLLUTANTS THAT
WERE EMITTED FROM A CAR BUILT AS RECENTLY
AS 1960, AND THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY HAS
COMMITTED ITSELF TO SOLVING THE POLLUTION
PROBLEM COMPLETELY AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE
TIME. IN THAT CONNECTION, THE AUTOMOTIVE
INDUSTRY HAS THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE
OIL INDUSTRY, WHICH IS MODIFYING THE CONTENT
OF ITS FUEL.
ALL OF US BECAME EXCITED ON EARTH
DAY THIS YEAR. THERE WAS REASON TO BECOME
EXCITED. WE FINALLY REALIZED THAT THE
POISONING OF OUR ATMOSPHERE THREATENS OUR
VERY SURVIVAL.
FORD i LIBRARY GERAL
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A CHALLENGE TO OUR SURVIVAL DOES
1
HOWEVER.
NOT JUSTIFY NATIONAL HYSTERIA HYSTERIA
HAS NEVER PRODUCED ANY RATIONAL SOLUTIONS
TO OUR PROBLEMS.
IF I WERE GOING TO BET ON WHO WILL
COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO AUTOMOTIVE
POLLUTION, I WOULD MUCH RATHER PUT MY
MONEY ON THE MEN IN DETROIT OR ON BILL LEAR,
THE ENGINEERING GENIUS WHO IS DEVELOPING
A STEAM TURBINE CAR, THAN ON THE COLLEGE
SHOW-OFFS WHO DIG A HOLE ON CAMPUS AND
BURY A CAR IN THE GROUND.
THERE IS A CRITICAL NEED TODAY TO
BRING MAN INTO HARMONY WITH NATURE. BUT
I DON'T THINK WE ARE GOING TO DO IT BY
ATTACKING INDUSTRY OR DECLARING WAR ON ALL
ECONOMIC PROGRESS.
WE MUST DECLARE WAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION, AND IT IS A WAR WE MUST WIN.
BUT WE MUST PURSUE A GRAND STRATEGY IN
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WAGING THAT WAR, NOT ENGAGE IN A VICIOUS
TARGETTING OF INDUSTRY WHICH WILL WRECK
OUR ECONOMIC MACHINE AND PUT PEOPLE OUT
OF WORK.
AGAIN, AS IN THE CRUSADE TO AID
THE DISADVANTAGED WITH TRAINING AND JOBS,
WE NEED A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT
AND BUSINESS. IN FACT WE NEED A NETWORK
OF PARTNERSHIPS--BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND
BUSINESS, BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, BETWEEN
GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN.
WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN MEET THE
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. WORKING AGAINST
EACH OTHER, WE CAN ONLY COME TO GRIEF.
IT IS VITAL THAT WE WORK TOGETHER.
I DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL FOR
THE EXTREME ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO SNEER AT
THE 37-POINT ANTI-POLLUTION PROGRAM
PRESIDENT NIXON SENT TO CONGRESS LAST
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FEBRUARY ON THE GROUND THAT ONLY EXTREME
MEASURES WILL BE USEFUL IN COMBATTING
POLLUTION.
I DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL FOR
THE MAJORITY PARTY IN CONGRESS TO REFUSE
EVEN TO HOLD HEARINGS ON THE PRESIDENT'S
PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCING AURHORITY
BILL WHICH IS INTENDED TO HELP FINANCE
THE STATE AND LOCAL SHARE OF WASTE
TREATMENT PLANTS.
I DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL TO
POSE THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION IN TERMS
OF A CHOICE BETWEEN CLEAN AIR AND WATER
OR MORE AND MORE KILOWATTS, A LIVABLE
ENVIRONMENT OR MORE AND MORE CARS. I THINK
WE WILL HAVE MORE KILOWATTS BUT CLEAN AIR
AND WATER AS WELL. I THINK WE WILL ACHIEVE A
LIVABLE ENVIRONMENT DESPITE MORE AND MORE
CARS. LET US NOT ENGAGE IN A GAME OF SILLY
DOOMSDAY ALTERNATIVES. WE CAN FIND THE
GERALE FORD LIBRARY
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ANSWERS WITHOUT THAT KIND OF NONSENSE.
THE TRUTH IS THAT THE PRESIDENT'S
ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE OF LAST FEBRUARY
REPRESENTED A LANDMARK. IT WAS THE FIRST
TIME THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN GIVEN A
PRESIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF
THEIR ENVIRONMENT. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME
IN RECENT HISTORY THAT A PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES HAD COMMITTED HIMSELF TO A
CRUSADE FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, A
RESTORATION OF OUR LAND TO ITS FORMER
STATE OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.
I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT CONGRESSIONAL
APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL
PROPOSALS WOULD BE A GREAT STEP TOWARD
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF OUR ENVIRONMENT.
I THINK IT APPROPRIATE AND HEALTHY
THAT IN THE PRESIDENT'S WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL PROGRAM THE FEDERAL COST-SHARE OF
FORD
THE FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM WOULD BE $4 BILLION
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AND THE STATE AND LOCAL SHARES,
$6 BILLION.
THIS IS IN LINE WITH AN UPDATED
FEDERAL WATER QUALITY ADMINISTRATION REPORT
WHICH PUTS THE NATION'S REQUIREMENTS FOR
COMMUNITY WASTE TREATMENT FACILITIES AT
$9.9 BILLION OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.
ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO STIMULATE
A GREATLY EXPANDED PROGRAM OF WATER
POLLUTION CONTROL BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
THAT IS WHERE THE PRESIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL
FINANCING AUTHORITY COMES IN, WITH FEDERAL
UNDERWRITING OF LOCAL BOND ISSUES.
FEDERAL FUNDING IS NOT THE SOLE
ANSWER. THE FWQA REPORT I CITED EARLIER
REVEALED THAT THE $880 MILLION LOCAL
COMMUNITIES PUT INTO WATER POLLUTION
FORD
CONTROL IN 1969 DID LITTLE MORE THAN COVER
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REPLACEMENT AND GROWTH NEEDS. IN ADDITION,
THE REPORT SHOWED THAT THE RATIO OF COMMUNITY
FUNDING
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PUT UP TO MATCH FEDERAL GRANTS HAS SLIPPED
FROM $13.70 PER FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL DOLLAR SPENT IN 1960 TO $5.20 PER
FEDERAL DOLLAR AT PRESENT. STIMULUS IS
NEEDED.
AT THE SAME TIME, WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL INVESTMENTS BY INDUSTRY APPARENTLY
WERE AT A LEVEL OF $500 MILLION IN 1968
AND $700 MILLION IN 1969, WITH MORE THAN
HALF OF THE WASTES TREATED IN PUBLIC
FACILITIES HAVING THEIR ORIGIN IN INDUSTRY.
IT SEEMS THE MOST DESIRABLE POLICY
IS TO ACCEPT ALL INDUSTRIAL WASTES THAT
CAN BE TREATED IN MUNICIPAL PLANTS BUT TO
ESTABLISH USER FEES IN LINE WITH THE COSTS
INCURRED TO COLLECT AND TREAT WASTES.
GOVERNMENT MUST OVERSEE THE WAR
DERALD FORD LIBRARY
ON POLLUTION BUT GOVERNMENT NEED NOT BE--
IN FACT MUST NOT BE--HOSTILE TO THE PRIVATE
SECTOR. IN PARTNERSHIP, WE WILL GO FORWARD.
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THE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IS TO
LAY DOWN RULES FOR FIGHTING THE WAR AGAINST
POLLUTION--AND THEN TO ENFORCE THOSE RULES
FAIRLY AND IMPARTIALLY UPON ALL PARTIES.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE AROUSED.
THEY CAN TAKE AND WILL TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION.
WE WILL WIN THIS WAR AGAINST
POLLUTION, AND IT WILL BE A VICTORY FOR THE
FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. ONLY IN FREEDOM
CAN MEN RESPOND TO THE NEED FOR CHANGE IN
A MANNER WHICH DOES NOT IMPOSE UPON THE
DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
FREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT UNDER THE
FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM PRODUCES AN EXPLOSION
OF IDEAS AND INCENTIVES AND AN EVER-GROWING
STIMULUS TO HUMAN BETTERMENT.
FREEDOM ALLOWS MAN TO DO THOSE
BERALD FORD
THINGS WHICH HE OUGHT TO DO, FOR HIS OWN
SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING AND FOR
THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF
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HIS CHILDREN AND HIS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.
IN. FREEDOM WE WILL WIN. VICTORY
IN THIS WAR AGAINST POLLUTION WILL BE A
TRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. IT WILL BE
A TECHNOLOGICAL TRIUMPH MADE POSSIBLE BY
THE JOINT EFFORT OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
AND THE EXPENDITURE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
IT WILL CONSTITUTE THE BIGGEST TASK IN
MAN'S HISTORY, INVOLVING THE BUILDING OF A
COMPLEX TECHNOLOGY RESULTING FROM THE
RECRUITMENT OF THE WORLD'S BEST MINDS.
LET US GIVE FULL REIN TO THE
GROWING POSSIBILITIES OF IMPROVING MAN'S
ENVIRONMENT. IF WE DO THIS, AND IF WE GO
FORWARD IN FREEDOM, WE CAN MEET THIS
CHALLENGE TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM
DESTRUCTION.
END : :
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
Distribution
10 capies 10/6/70 to Mr. Fad only m Office Copy
AN ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.
REPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
BEFORE THE DELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA
7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1970
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 6
We are nearing the end of the first year of a new decade. We are passing
through the gateway of the Seventies. We are moving onto the pathway of progress--
progress toward peace, prosperity and plenty.
The great problems of the Sixties are yielding to the solutions of the
Seventies.
Sizable steps have been taken toward peace with honor in Vietnam.
There are clear signs of success in the fight against inflation. We are
winning that fight, and we are in the early stages of a new era of growth in the
economy.
And despite some reluctance on the part of some in Congress, we are moving
to reform the social and political conditions left over from the past, conditions
which have no place in the United States of the Seventies.
But government cannot achieve goals or priorities alone. It can reach its
major objectives only with the help of the private sector, only by drawing upon the
strength and resources of private enterprise. It can achieve national goals only as
it is aided by business and industry, the academic world, and by all of our citizens.
We are gathered here to honor an outstanding Delaware County citizen tonight.
In honoring Joseph Segel, we also acknowledge the tremendous contribution that the
free enterprise system has made to this country. And, bringing the subject closer
to home, we take note of the dazzling record of progress made by industry in
Delaware County--not only economic progress but significant contributions toward
the solution of such critical national problems as hard-core unemployment and
environmental pollution.
At this point I would like to point out that industry in Delaware County has
a great and powerful friend in the Congress. I am speaking, of course, of the most
powerful senator ever to represent the state of Pennsylvania, the Honorable Hugh
Scott. Hugh Scott speaks for Pennsylvania industry in Washington as no other senator
has ever spoken for it. He is keenly aware of the foreign import problem. He is
ever concerned about the best interests of Pennsylvania.
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Hugh, I am sure, joins me in congratulating the Delaware County Chamber of
Commerce for its splendid achievements in training the hard-core unemployed through
the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector program and in commending Delaware
County industry for its special emphasis on pollution control.
I congratulate you because you have become involved. You are proving that
business and businessmen can do what no other segment of America can do to benefit
our people--attack hard-core unemployment through the best kind of on-the-job
training and fight industrial pollution through your own best efforts.
You gentlemen know that Federal tax dollars or, even worse, Federal deficit
spending, cannot buy solutions to our most crucial national problems. That is why
the Chamber's job salesmen have been able to secure job pledges for more than
600 hard-core unemployed in Delaware County over the past 18 months. And that is why
you have moved on your own to join in the fight against the poisoning of our
environment.
The best proof is here--right here--that unemployment and other urban problems
can best be solved through a strong partnership of business and government.
I think we can agree on one principle of business-government problem-solving
at the outset.
Private enterprise can make major contributions to solving social problems
but business's central purpose has to be to make a profit. That's what it exists
for. That is its reason for being. It cannot afford to take on all the costs of
economic and social improvement. So what we are really talking about is cooperation--
continuing cooperation between government and business which results in a successful
problem-solving partnership.
That's the kind of partnership we have in the Job Opportunities in the Business
Sector program. The J.O.B.S. program is an outstanding example of the sound and
creative approaches to social problems that are needed in the Seventies.
Government's role should be to provide the economic stimulus for business to
do the job under conditions compatible with the profit incentive.
Under the present Administration, government has done exactly that--and
business has responded by taking the lead in meeting the major national problem of
hard-core unemployment and underemployment.
Business is doing a magnificent job with the J.O.B.S. program. This
partnership between business and government has been a tremendous success, and it
is a continuing success.
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Since the program began, J.O.B.S. employers have hired and trained nearly
500,000 disadvantaged persons.
J.O.B.S. is one of eight manpower training programs operated by the Federal
Government. It is a vital part of an overall manpower training effort which saw
nearly 736,000 Americans enrolled in work and training programs at the end of
August, the latest available figure. That was 79,000 more enrollments than in
August 1969, an increase of 12 per cent.
The greatest increase was in the J.O.B.S. program. Employment under
contract programs reached a new high of 50,000, and employment under non-contract
programs under the National Alliance of Businessmen climbed to 180,000, for a
combined total of 230,000.
I learned just before coming here that if you add up all the persons who have
ever received training under Federal manpower work and training programs the figure
is a staggering 1,035,000 through June 1970. At the end of fiscal 1970, the figure
topped a million for the first time.
As I said earlier, business is making a tremendous contribution to this
splendid effort aimed at giving dignity and a decent livelihood to hundreds of
thousands of disadvantaged citizens. The entire Nation has benefited.
Business can be said to have come of age in terms of corporate citizenship.
It has passed with a superb score the test of aiding the disadvantaged.
But what of the environmental crisis? That will be a test more severe than
any other for business and industry.
Is the business community ignoring the pollution of our atmosphere, the water
we drink and the air we breathe, the wanton destruction of our environment?
There are those who would have America believe SO. But they are dead wrong.
They are wrong on the facts, and they are wrong in their approach to the problems
involved in restoring our environment.
I agree with those who set tough goals for industry to reach--who seek a
pollution-free automobile engine by 1975 or '76.
But bear in mind that it was not until the 1950's that automotive fuels were
found to be one of the major causes of smog. We have made significant progress in
meeting the problem since then.
The 1970 cars, for instance, emit only a fraction of the pollutants that were
emitted from a car built as recently as 1960, and the automotive industry has
committed itself to solving the pollution problem completely at the earliest
possible time. In that connection, the automotive industry has the full cooperation
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of the oil industry, which is modifying the content of its fuel.
All of us became excited on Earth Day this year. There was reason to become
excited. We finally realized that the poisoning of our atmosphere threatens our very
survival.
A challenge to our survival does not justify national hysteria. Hysteria
has never produced any rational solutions to our problems.
If I were going to bet on who will come up with a solution to automotive
pollution, I would much rather put my money on the men in Detroit or on Bill Lear,
the engineering genius who is developing a steam turbine car, than on the college
show-offs who dig a hole on campus and bury a car in the ground.
There is a critical need today to bring man into harmony with nature. But
I don't think we are going to do it by attacking industry or declaring war on all
economic progress.
We must declare war on environmental pollution, and it is a war we must win.
But we must pursue a grand strategy in waging that war, not engage in a vicious
targetting of industry which will wreck our economic machine and put people out of
work.
Again, as in the crusade to aid the disadvantaged with training and jobs,
we need a partnership between government and business. In fact we need a network
of partnerships--between government and business, between the Federal government and
state and local governments, between government and the individual citizen.
Working together we can meet the environmental crisis. Working against each
other, we can only come to grief.
It is vital that we work together.
I do not think it is helpful for the extreme environmentalists to sneer at the
37-point anti-pollution program President Nixon sent to Congress last February on
the ground that only extreme measures will be useful in combatting pollution.
I do not think it is helpful for the majority party in Congress to refuse
even to hold hearings on the President's proposed Environmental Financing Authority
bill which is intended to help finance the State and local share of waste treatment
plants.
I do not think it is helpful to pose the environmental question in terms of
a choice between clean air and water or more and more kilowatts, a livable
environment or more and more cars. I think we will have more kilowatts but clean
air and water as well. I think we will achieve a livable environment despite more
and more cars. Let us not engage in a game of silly doomsday alternatives. We can
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find the answers without that kind of nonsense.
The truth is that the President's environmental message of last February
represented a landmark. It was the first time the people had been given a
presidential assessment of the state of their environment. It was the first time
in recent history that a President of the United States had committed himself to a
crusade for a clean environment, a restoration of our land to its former state of
America the Beautiful.
I firmly believe that congressional approval of the President's environmental
proposals would be a great step toward improving the quality of our environment.
I think it appropriate and healthy that in the President's water pollution
control program the Federal cost-share of the four-year program would be
$4 billion and the State and local shares, $6 billion.
This is in line with an updated Federal Water Quality Administration report
which puts the Nation's requirements for community waste treatment facilities at
$9.9 billion over the next four years.
Action must be taken to stimulate a greatly expanded program of water pollution
control by local communities. That is where the President's Environmental Financing
Authority comes in, with Federal underwriting of local bond issues.
Federal funding is not the sole answer. The FWQA report I cited earlier
revealed that the $880 million local communities put into water pollution control in
1969 did little more than cover replacement and growth needs. In addition, the report
showed that the ratio of community funding put up to match Federal grants has slipped
from $13.70 per Federal water pollution control dollar spent in 1960 to $5.20 per
Federal dollar at present. Stimulus is needed.
At the same time, water pollution control investments by industry apparently
were at a level of $500 million in 1968 and $700 million in 1969, with more than
half of the wastes treated in public facilities having their origin in industry.
It seems the most desirable policy is to accept all industrial wastes that
can be treated in municipal plants but to establish user fees in line with the costs
incurred to collect and treat wastes.
Government must oversee the war on pollution but government need not be--
in fact must not be--hostile to the private sector. In partnership, we will go
forward.
The important consideration is to lay down rules for fighting the war against
pollution--and then to enforce those rules fairly and impartially upon all parties.
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The American people are aroused. They can take and will take effective
action.
We will win this war against pollution, and it will be a victory for the free
enterprise system. Only in freedom can men respond to the need for change in a manner
which does not impose upon the dignity of the human spirit.
Freedom as we know it under the free enterprise system produces an explosion
of ideas and incentives and an ever-growing stimulus to human betterment.
Freedom allows man to do those things which he ought to do, for his own
spiritual and physical well-being and for the spiritual and physical well-being of
his children and his children's children.
In freedom we will win. Victory in this war against pollution will be a
triumph of the human spirit. It will be a technological triumph made possible by
the joint effort of millions of Americans and the expenditure of billions of dollars.
It will constitute the biggest task in man's history, involving the building of a
complex technology resulting from the recruitment of the world's best minds.
Let us give full rein to the growing possibilities of improving man's
environment. If we do this, and if we go forward in freedom, we can meet this
challenge to save our environment from destruction.
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10 copies to Mr. Ford only
Q Office Copy
AN ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.
REPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
BEFORE THE DELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA
7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1970
FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 6
We are nearing the end of the first year of a new decade. We are passing
through the gateway of the Seventies. We are moving onto the pathway of progress--
progress toward peace, prosperity and plenty.
The great problems of the Sixties are yielding to the solutions of the
Seventies.
Sizable steps have been taken toward peace with honor in Vietnam.
There are clear signs of success in the fight against inflation. We are
winning that fight, and we are in the early stages of a new era of growth in the
economy.
And despite some reluctance on the part of some in Congress, we are moving
to reform the social and political conditions left over from the past, conditions
which have no place in the United States of the Seventies.
But government cannot achieve goals or priorities alone. It can reach its
major objectives only with the help of the private sector, only by drawing upon the
strength and resources of private enterprise. It can achieve national goals only as
it is aided by business and industry, the academic world, and by all of our citizens.
We are gathered here to honor an outstanding Delaware County citizen tonight.
In honoring Joseph Segel, we also acknowledge the tremendous contribution that the
free enterprise system has made to this country. And, bringing the subject closer
to home, we take note of the dazzling record of progress made by industry in
Delaware County--not only economic progress but significant contributions toward
the solution of such critical national problems as hard-core unemployment and
environmental pollution.
At this point I would like to point out that industry in Delaware County has
a great and powerful friend in the Congress. I am speaking, of course, of the most
powerful senator ever to represent the state of Pennsylvania, the Honorable Hugh
Scott. Hugh Scott speaks for Pennsylvania industry in Washington as no other senator
has ever spoken for it. He is keenly aware of the foreign import problem. He is
ever concerned about the best interests of Pennsylvania.
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Hugh, I am sure, joins me in congratulating the Delaware County Chamber of
Commerce for its splendid achievements in training the hard-core unemployed through
the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector program and in commending Delaware
County industry for its special emphasis on pollution control.
I congratulate you because you have become involved. You are proving that
business and businessmen can do what no other segment of America can do to benefit
our people--attack hard-core unemployment through the best kind of on-the-job
training and fight industrial pollution through your own best efforts.
You gentlemen know that Federal tax dollars or, even worse, Federal deficit
spending, cannot buy solutions to our most crucial national problems. That is why
the Chamber's job salesmen have been able to secure job pledges for more than
600 hard-core unemployed in Delaware County over the past 18 months. And that is why
you have moved on your own to join in the fight against the poisoning of our
environment.
The best proof is here--right here--that unemployment and other urban problems
can best be solved through a strong partnership of business and government.
I think we can agree on one principle of business-government problem-solving
at the outset.
Private enterprise can make major contributions to solving social problems
but business's central purpose has to be to make a profit. That's what it exists
for. That is its reason for being. It cannot afford to take on all the costs of
economic and social improvement. So what we are really talking about is cooperation--
continuing cooperation between government and business which results in a successful
problem-solving partnership.
That's the kind of partnership we have in the Job Opportunities in the Business
Sector program. The J.O.B.S. program is an outstanding example of the sound and
creative approaches to social problems that are needed in the Seventies.
Government's role should be to provide the economic stimulus for business to
do the job under conditions compatible with the profit incentive.
Under the present Administration, government has done exactly that-and
business has responded by taking the lead in meeting the major national problem of
hard-core unemployment and underemployment.
Business is doing a magnificent job with the J.O.B.S. program. This
partnership between business and government has been a tremendous success, and it
is a continuing success.
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Since the program began, J.O.B.S. employers have hired and trained nearly
500,000 disadvantaged persons.
J.O.B.S. is one of eight manpower training programs operated by the Federal
Government. It is a vital part of an overall manpower training effort which saw
nearly 736,000 Americans enrolled in work and training programs at the end of
August, the latest available figure. That was 79,000 more enrollments than in
August 1969, an increase of 12 per cent.
The greatest increase was in the J.O.B.S. program. Employment under
contract programs reached a new high of 50,000, and employment under non-contract
programs under the National Alliance of Businessmen climbed to 180,000, for a
combined total of 230,000.
I learned just before coming here that if you add up all the persons who have
ever received training under Federal manpower work and training programs the figure
is a staggering 1,035,000 through June 1970. At the end of fiscal 1970, the figure
topped a million for the first time.
As I said earlier, business is making a tremendous contribution to this
splendid effort aimed at giving dignity and a decent livelihood to hundreds of
thousands of disadvantaged citizens. The entire Nation has benefited.
Business can be said to have come of age in terms of corporate citizenship.
It has passed with a superb score the test of aiding the disadvantaged.
But what of the environmental crisis? That will be a test more severe than
any other for business and industry.
Is the business community ignoring the pollution of our atmosphere, the water
we drink and the air we breathe, the wanton destruction of our environment?
There are those who would have America believe SO. But they are dead wrong.
They are wrong on the facts, and they are wrong in their approach to the problems
involved in restoring our environment.
I agree with those who set tough goals for industry to reach--who seek a
pollution-free automobile engine by 1975 or '76.
But bear in mind that it was not until the 1950's that automotive fuels were
found to be one of the major causes of smog. We have made significant progress in
meeting the problem since then.
The 1970 cars, for instance, emit only a fraction of the pollutants that were
emitted from a car built as recently as 1960, and the automotive industry has
committed itself to solving the pollution problem completely at the earliest
possible time. In that connection, the automotive industry has the full cooperation
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of the oil industry, which is modifying the content of its fuel.
All of us became excited on Earth Day this year. There was reason to become
excited. We finally realized that the poisoning of our atmosphere threatens our very
survival.
A challenge to our survival does not justify national hysteria. Hysteria
has never produced any rational solutions to our problems.
If I were going to bet on who will come up with a solution to automotive
pollution, I would much rather put my money on the men in Detroit or on Bill Lear,
the engineering genius who is developing a steam turbine car, than on the college
show-offs who dig a hole on campus and bury a car in the ground.
There is a critical need today to bring man into harmony with nature. But
I don't think we are going to do it by attacking industry or declaring war on all
economic progress.
We must declare war on environmental pollution, and it is a war we must win.
But we must pursue a grand strategy in waging that war, not engage in a vicious
targetting of industry which will wreck our economic machine and put people out of
work.
Again, as in the crusade to aid the disadvantaged with training and jobs,
we need a partnership between government and business. In fact we need a network
of partnerships--between government and business, between the Federal government and
state and local governments, between government and the individual citizen.
Working together we can meet the environmental crisis. Working against each
other, we can only come to grief.
It is vital that we work together.
I do not think it is helpful for the extreme environmentalists to sneer at the
37-point anti-pollution program President Nixon sent to Congress last February on
the ground that only extreme measures will be useful in combatting pollution.
I do not think it is helpful for the majority party in Congress to refuse
even to hold hearings on the President's proposed Environmental Financing Authority
bill which is intended to help finance the State and local share of waste treatment
plants.
I do not think it is helpful to pose the environmental question in terms of
a choice between clean air and water or more and more kilowatts, a livable
environment or more and more cars. I think we will have more kilowatts but clean
air and water as well. I think we will achieve a livable environment despite more
and more cars. Let us not engage in a game of silly doomsday alternatives. We can
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-5-
find the answers without that kind of nonsense.
The truth is that the President's environmental message of last February
represented a landmark. It was the first time the people had been given a
presidential assessment of the state of their environment. It was the first time
in recent history that a President of the United States had committed himself to a
crusade for a clean environment, a restoration of our land to its former state of
America the Beautiful.
I firmly believe that congressional approval of the President's environmental
proposals would be a great step toward improving the quality of our environment.
I think it appropriate and healthy that in the President's water pollution
control program the Federal cost-share of the four-year program would be
$4 billion and the State and local shares, $6 billion.
This is in line with an updated Federal Water Quality Administration report
which puts the Nation's requirements for community waste treatment facilities at
$9.9 billion over the next four years.
Action must be taken to stimulate a greatly expanded program of water pollution
control by local communities. That is where the President's Environmental Financing
Authority comes in, with Federal underwriting of local bond issues.
Federal funding is not the sole answer. The FWQA report I cited earlier
revealed that the $880 million local communities put into water pollution control in
1969 did little more than cover replacement and growth needs. In addition, the report
showed that the ratio of community funding put up to match Federal grants has slipped
from $13.70 per Federal water pollution control dollar spent in 1960 to $5.20 per
Federal dollar at present. Stimulus is needed.
At the same time, water pollution control investments by industry apparently
were at a level of $500 million in 1968 and $700 million in 1969, with more than
half of the wastes treated in public facilities having their origin in industry.
It seems the most desirable policy is to accept all industrial wastes that
can be treated in municipal plants but to establish user fees in line with the costs
incurred to collect and treat wastes.
Government must oversee the war on pollution but government need not be--
in fact must not be--hostile to the private sector. In partnership, we will go
forward.
The important consideration is to lay down rules for fighting the war against
pollution and then to enforce those rules fairly and impartially upon all parties.
(more)
-6-
The American people are aroused. They can take and will take effective
action.
We will win this war against pollution, and it will be a victory for the free
enterprise system. Only in freedom can men respond to the need for change in a manner
which does not impose upon the dignity of the human spirit.
Freedom as we know it under the free enterprise system produces an explosion
of ideas and incentives and an ever-growing stimulus to human betterment.
Freedom allows man to do those things which he ought to do, for his own
spiritual and physical well-being and for the spiritual and physical well-being of
his children and his children's children.
In freedom we will win. Victory in this war against pollution will be a
triumph of the human spirit. It will be a technological triumph made possible by
the joint effort of millions of Americans and the expenditure of billions of dollars.
It will constitute the biggest task in man's history, involving the building of a
complex technology resulting from the recruitment of the world's best minds.
Let us give full rein to the growing possibilities of improving man's
environment. If we do this, and if we go forward in freedom, we can meet this
challenge to save our environment from destruction.
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