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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D30, folder \"Delaware County Chamber of\nCommerce, Media, PA, October 6, 1970\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press\nSecretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDigitized from Box D30 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nDELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nAT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 7 P.M. TUESDAY\nOCTOBER 6, 1970\nall wing\nWE ARE NEARING THE END OF THE\nFIRST YEAR OF A NEW DECADE. WE ARE PASSING\nTHROUGH THE GATEWAY OF THE SEVENTIES.\nWE ARE MOVING ONTO THE PATHWAY OF PROGRESS--\nPROGRESS TOWARD PEACE, PROSPERITY AND\nPLENTY\nTHE GREAT PROBLEMS OF THE SIXTIES\nARE YIELDING TO THE SOLUTIONS OF THE\nSEVENTIES.\nSpeciate\nSIZABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN\nto\nTOWARD PEACE WITH HONOR IN VIETNAM.\nTHERE ARE CLEAR SIGNS OF SUCCESS\nIN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION. WE ARE\nWINNING THAT FIGHT AND WE ARE IN THE\nEARLY STAGES OF A NEW ERA OF GROWTH IN THE\nECONOMY.\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\n-2-\nAND DESPITE SOME RELUCTANCE ON THE\nPART OF SOME IN CONGRESS, WE ARE MOVING\nTO REFORM THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL\nCONDITIONS LEFT OVER FROM THE PAST,\nCONDITIONS WHICH HAVE NO PLACE IN THE\nUNITED STATES OF THE SEVENTIES.\nBUT GOVERNMENT CANNOT ACHIEVE GOALS\nOR PRIORITIES ALONE IT CAN REACH ITS\nMAJOR OBJECTIVES ONLY WITH THE HELP OF THE\nPRIVATE SECTOR, ONLY BY DRAWING UPON THE\nSTRENGTH AND RESOURCES OF PRIVATE\nENTERPRISE. IT CAN ACHIEVE NATIONAL GOALS\nONLY AS IT IS AIDED BY BUSINESS AND\nINDUSTRY, THE ACADEMIC WORLD, AND BY ALL\nOF OUR CITIZENS.\n$COTT\nWE ARE GATHERED HERE TO HONOR AN\nOUTSTANDING DELAWARE COUNTY CITIZEN TONIGHT.\nIN HONORING JOSEPH SEGEL WE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE\nTHE TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION THAT THE FREE\nFORD\nENTERPRISE SYSTEM HAS MADE TO THIS COUNTRY.\nLIBRARY\n-3-\nAND, BRINGING THE SUBJECT CLOSER TO HOME,\nWE TAKE NOTE OF THE DAZZLING RECORD OF\nPROGRESS MADE BY INDUSTRY IN DELAWARE\nCOUNTY--NOT ONLY ECONOMIC PROGRESS BUT\nSIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD THE\nSOLUTION OF SUCH CRITICAL NATIONAL PROBLEMS\nAS HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL\nPOLLUTION.\nAT THIS POINT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT\nOUT THAT INDUSTRY IN DELAWARE COUNTY HAS\nA GREAT AND POWERFUL FRIEND IN THE CONGRESS.\nI AM SPEAKING, OF COURSE, OF THE MOST I\nPOWERFUL SENATOR EVER TO REPRESENT THE\nSTATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE HONORABLE HUGH\nSCOTT. HUGH SCOTT SPEAKS FOR PENNSYLVANIA\nINDUSTRY IN WASHINGTON AS NO OTHER SENATOR\nHAS EVER SPOKEN FOR IT. HE IS KEENLY AWARE\nOF THE FOREIGN IMPORT PROBLEM. HE IS\nEVER CONCERNED ABOUT THE BEST INTERESTS\nSAREWILLINS\nOF PENNSYLVANIA.\nWATKINS\n-4-\nHUGH, I AM SURE, JOINS ME IN\nCONGRATULATING THE DELAWARE COUNTY CHAMBER\nOF COMMERCE FOR ITS SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENTS\nIN TRAINING THE HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED\nTHROUGH THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE\nBUSINESS SECTOR PROGRAM AND IN COMMENDING\nDELAWARE COUNTY INDUSTRY FOR ITS SPECIAL\nEMPHASIS ON POLLUTION CONTROL.\nI CONGRATULATE YOU BECAUSE YOU\nHAVE BECOME INVOLVED. YOU ARE PROVING\nTHAT BUSINESS AND BUSINESSMEN CAN DO WHAT\nNO OTHER SEGMENT OF AMERICA CAN DO TO\nBENEFIT OUR PEOPLE-ATTACK HARD-CORE\nUNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE BEST KIND OF\nON-THE-JOB TRAINING AND FIGHT INDUSTRIAL\nPOLLUTION THROUGH YOUR OWN BEST EFFORTS.\nYOU GENTLEMEN KNOW THAT FEDERAL\nTAX DOLLARS OR, EVEN WORSE, FEDERAL DEFICIT\nSPENDING, CANNOT BUY SOLUTIONS TO OUR\nMOST CRUCIAL NATIONAL PROBLEMS. THAT IS\nFORD is LIBRARY GERALD\n-5-\nWHY THE CHAMBER'S JOB SALESMEN HAVE BEEN\nABLE TO SECURE JOB PLEDGES FOR MORE THAN\n600 HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED IN DELAWARE COUNTY\nOVER THE PAST 18 MONTHS. AND THAT IS WHY\nYOU HAVE MOVED ON YOUR OWN TO JOIN IN THE\nFIGHT AGAINST THE POISONING OF OUR\nENVIRONMENT.\nTHE BEST PROOF IS HERE--RIGHT HERE--\nTHAT UNEMPLOYMENT AND OTHER URBAN PROBLEMS\nCAN BEST BE SOLVED THROUGH A STRONG\nPARTNERSHIP OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT.\nI THINK WE CAN AGREE ON ONE\nPRINCIPLE OF BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT\nPROBLEM-SOLVING AT THE OUTSET.\nPRIVATE ENTERPRISE CAN MAKE MAJOR\nCONTRIBUTIONS TO SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS\nBUT BUSINESS'S CENTRAL PURPOSE HAS TO BE\nTO MAKE A PROFIT. THAT'S WHAT IT EXISTS\nFOR. THAT IS ITS REASON FOR BEING. IT\nERALD FORD LIBRARY\nCANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE ON ALL THE COSTS OF\n-6-\nECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT. SO WHAT\nWE ARE REALLY TALKING ABOUT IS\nCOOPERATION--CONTINUING COOPERATION\nBETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS WHICH\nRESULTS IN A SUCCESSFUL PROBLEM-SOLVING\nPARTNERSHIP.\nTHAT'S THE KIND OF PARTNERSHIP WE\nHAVE IN THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE\nBUSINESS SECTOR PROGRAM. THE J.O.B.S.\nPROGRAM IS AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF THE\nSOUND AND CREATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL\nPROBLEMS THAT ARE NEEDED IN THE SEVENTIES.\nGOVERNMENT'S ROLE SHOULD BE TO\nPROVIDE THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS FOR BUSINESS\nTO DO THE JOB UNDER CONDITIONS COMPATIBLE\nWITH THE PROFIT INCENTIVE.\nUNDER THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION,\nGOVERNMENT HAS DONE EXACTLY THAT--AND\nBUSINESS HAS RESPONDED BY TAKING THE LEAD\nIN MEETING THE MAJOR NATIONAL PROBLEM OF\n-7-\nHARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT.\nBUSINESS IS DOING A MAGNIFICENT\nJOB WITH THE J.O.B.S. PROGRAM. THIS\nPARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT\nHAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, AND IT IS\nA CONTINUING SUCCESS.\nSINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN, J.O.B.S.\nEMPLOYERS HAVE HIRED AND TRAINED NEARLY\n500,000 DISADVANTAGED PERSONS.\nJ.O.B.S. IS ONE OF EIGHT MANPOWER\nTRAINING PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE FEDERAL\nGOVERNMENT. IT IS A VITAL PART OF AN\nOVERALL MANPOWER TRAINING EFFORT WHICH SAW\nNEARLY 736,000 AMERICANS ENROLLED IN WORK\nAND TRAINING PROGRAMS AT THE END OF AUGUST,\nTHE LATEST AVAILABLE FIGURE. THAT WAS\n79,000 MORE ENROLLMENTS THAN IN AUGUST 1969,\nAN INCREASE OF 12 PER CENT.\nTHE GREATEST INCREASE WAS IN THE\nJ.O.B.S. PROGRAM. EMPLOYMENT UNDER\nFORD & QERALD LIBRARY\n-8-\nCONTRACT PROGRAMS REACHED A NEW HIGH OF\n50,000, AND EMPLOYMENT UNDER NON-CONTRACT\nPROGRAMS UNDER THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF\nBUSINESSMEN CLIMBED TO 180,000, FOR A\nCOMBINED TOTAL OF 230,000,\nI L'EARNED JUST BEFORE COMING HERE\nTHAT IF YOU ADD UP ALL THE PERSONS WHO\nHAVE EVER RECEIVED TRAINING UNDER FEDERAL\nMANPOWER WORK AND TRAINING PROGRAMS THE\nFIGURE IS A STAGGERING 1,035,000 THROUGH\nJUNE 1970. AT THE END OF FISCAL 1970,\nTHE FIGURE TOPPED A MILLION FOR THE FIRST\nTIME.\nAS I SAID EARLIER, BUSINESS IS\nMAKING A TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THIS\nSPLENDID EFFORT AIMED AT GIVING DIGNITY\nAND A DECENT LIVELIHOOD TO HUNDREDS OF\nTHOUSANDS OF DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS. THE\nENTIRE NATION HAS BENEFITED.\nGEBRALA FORD LIBRARY\nBUSINESS CAN BE SAID TO HAVE COME\n-9-\nOF AGE IN TERMS OF CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP.\nIT HAS PASSED WITH A SUPERB SCORE THE TEST\nOF AIDING THE DISADVANTAGED.\nBUT WHAT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL\nCRISIS? THAT WILL BE A TEST MORE SEVERE\nTHAN ANY OTHER FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.\nIS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IGNORING\nTHE POLLUTION OF OUR ATMOSPHERE, THE WATER\nWE DRINK AND THE AIR WE BREATHE, THE WANTON\nDESTRUCTION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT?\nTHERE ARE THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE\nAMERICA BELIEVE SO. BUT THEY ARE DEAD\nWRONG. THEY ARE WRONG ON THE FACTS, AND\nTHEY ARE WRONG IN THEIR APPROACH TO THE\nPROBLEMS INVOLVED IN RESTORING OUR\nENVIRONMENT.\nI AGREE WITH THOSE WHO SET TOUGH\nGOALS FOR INDUSTRY TO REACH--WHO SEEK A\nPOLLUTION-FREE AUTOMOBILE ENGINE BY 1975 OR\n'76.\n-10-\nBUT BEAR IN MIND THAT IT WAS NOT\nUNTIL THE 1950's THAT AUTOMOTIVE FUELS\nWERE FOUND TO BE ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES\nOF SMOG. WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS\nIN MEETING THE PROBLEM SINCE THEN.\nTHE 1970 CARS, FOR INSTANCE, EMIT\nONLY A FRACTION OF THE POLLUTANTS THAT\nWERE EMITTED FROM A CAR BUILT AS RECENTLY\nAS 1960, AND THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY HAS\nCOMMITTED ITSELF TO SOLVING THE POLLUTION\nPROBLEM COMPLETELY AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE\nTIME. IN THAT CONNECTION, THE AUTOMOTIVE\nINDUSTRY HAS THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE\nOIL INDUSTRY, WHICH IS MODIFYING THE CONTENT\nOF ITS FUEL.\nALL OF US BECAME EXCITED ON EARTH\nDAY THIS YEAR. THERE WAS REASON TO BECOME\nEXCITED. WE FINALLY REALIZED THAT THE\nPOISONING OF OUR ATMOSPHERE THREATENS OUR\nVERY SURVIVAL.\nFORD i LIBRARY GERAL\n-11-\nA CHALLENGE TO OUR SURVIVAL DOES\n1\nHOWEVER.\nNOT JUSTIFY NATIONAL HYSTERIA HYSTERIA\nHAS NEVER PRODUCED ANY RATIONAL SOLUTIONS\nTO OUR PROBLEMS.\nIF I WERE GOING TO BET ON WHO WILL\nCOME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO AUTOMOTIVE\nPOLLUTION, I WOULD MUCH RATHER PUT MY\nMONEY ON THE MEN IN DETROIT OR ON BILL LEAR,\nTHE ENGINEERING GENIUS WHO IS DEVELOPING\nA STEAM TURBINE CAR, THAN ON THE COLLEGE\nSHOW-OFFS WHO DIG A HOLE ON CAMPUS AND\nBURY A CAR IN THE GROUND.\nTHERE IS A CRITICAL NEED TODAY TO\nBRING MAN INTO HARMONY WITH NATURE. BUT\nI DON'T THINK WE ARE GOING TO DO IT BY\nATTACKING INDUSTRY OR DECLARING WAR ON ALL\nECONOMIC PROGRESS.\nWE MUST DECLARE WAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL\nPOLLUTION, AND IT IS A WAR WE MUST WIN.\nBUT WE MUST PURSUE A GRAND STRATEGY IN\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\n-12-\nWAGING THAT WAR, NOT ENGAGE IN A VICIOUS\nTARGETTING OF INDUSTRY WHICH WILL WRECK\nOUR ECONOMIC MACHINE AND PUT PEOPLE OUT\nOF WORK.\nAGAIN, AS IN THE CRUSADE TO AID\nTHE DISADVANTAGED WITH TRAINING AND JOBS,\nWE NEED A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT\nAND BUSINESS. IN FACT WE NEED A NETWORK\nOF PARTNERSHIPS--BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND\nBUSINESS, BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND\nSTATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, BETWEEN\nGOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN.\nWORKING TOGETHER WE CAN MEET THE\nENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. WORKING AGAINST\nEACH OTHER, WE CAN ONLY COME TO GRIEF.\nIT IS VITAL THAT WE WORK TOGETHER.\nI DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL FOR\nTHE EXTREME ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO SNEER AT\nTHE 37-POINT ANTI-POLLUTION PROGRAM\nPRESIDENT NIXON SENT TO CONGRESS LAST\n-13-\nFEBRUARY ON THE GROUND THAT ONLY EXTREME\nMEASURES WILL BE USEFUL IN COMBATTING\nPOLLUTION.\nI DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL FOR\nTHE MAJORITY PARTY IN CONGRESS TO REFUSE\nEVEN TO HOLD HEARINGS ON THE PRESIDENT'S\nPROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCING AURHORITY\nBILL WHICH IS INTENDED TO HELP FINANCE\nTHE STATE AND LOCAL SHARE OF WASTE\nTREATMENT PLANTS.\nI DO NOT THINK IT IS HELPFUL TO\nPOSE THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION IN TERMS\nOF A CHOICE BETWEEN CLEAN AIR AND WATER\nOR MORE AND MORE KILOWATTS, A LIVABLE\nENVIRONMENT OR MORE AND MORE CARS. I THINK\nWE WILL HAVE MORE KILOWATTS BUT CLEAN AIR\nAND WATER AS WELL. I THINK WE WILL ACHIEVE A\nLIVABLE ENVIRONMENT DESPITE MORE AND MORE\nCARS. LET US NOT ENGAGE IN A GAME OF SILLY\nDOOMSDAY ALTERNATIVES. WE CAN FIND THE\nGERALE FORD LIBRARY\n-14-\nANSWERS WITHOUT THAT KIND OF NONSENSE.\nTHE TRUTH IS THAT THE PRESIDENT'S\nENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE OF LAST FEBRUARY\nREPRESENTED A LANDMARK. IT WAS THE FIRST\nTIME THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN GIVEN A\nPRESIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF\nTHEIR ENVIRONMENT. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME\nIN RECENT HISTORY THAT A PRESIDENT OF THE\nUNITED STATES HAD COMMITTED HIMSELF TO A\nCRUSADE FOR A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, A\nRESTORATION OF OUR LAND TO ITS FORMER\nSTATE OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.\nI FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT CONGRESSIONAL\nAPPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL\nPROPOSALS WOULD BE A GREAT STEP TOWARD\nIMPROVING THE QUALITY OF OUR ENVIRONMENT.\nI THINK IT APPROPRIATE AND HEALTHY\nTHAT IN THE PRESIDENT'S WATER POLLUTION\nCONTROL PROGRAM THE FEDERAL COST-SHARE OF\nFORD\nTHE FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM WOULD BE $4 BILLION\nLIBRARY\n-15-\nAND THE STATE AND LOCAL SHARES,\n$6 BILLION.\nTHIS IS IN LINE WITH AN UPDATED\nFEDERAL WATER QUALITY ADMINISTRATION REPORT\nWHICH PUTS THE NATION'S REQUIREMENTS FOR\nCOMMUNITY WASTE TREATMENT FACILITIES AT\n$9.9 BILLION OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.\nACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO STIMULATE\nA GREATLY EXPANDED PROGRAM OF WATER\nPOLLUTION CONTROL BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES.\nTHAT IS WHERE THE PRESIDENT'S ENVIRONMENTAL\nFINANCING AUTHORITY COMES IN, WITH FEDERAL\nUNDERWRITING OF LOCAL BOND ISSUES.\nFEDERAL FUNDING IS NOT THE SOLE\nANSWER. THE FWQA REPORT I CITED EARLIER\nREVEALED THAT THE $880 MILLION LOCAL\nCOMMUNITIES PUT INTO WATER POLLUTION\nFORD\nCONTROL IN 1969 DID LITTLE MORE THAN COVER\nLIBRARY\nREPLACEMENT AND GROWTH NEEDS. IN ADDITION,\nTHE REPORT SHOWED THAT THE RATIO OF COMMUNITY\nFUNDING\n-16-\nPUT UP TO MATCH FEDERAL GRANTS HAS SLIPPED\nFROM $13.70 PER FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION\nCONTROL DOLLAR SPENT IN 1960 TO $5.20 PER\nFEDERAL DOLLAR AT PRESENT. STIMULUS IS\nNEEDED.\nAT THE SAME TIME, WATER POLLUTION\nCONTROL INVESTMENTS BY INDUSTRY APPARENTLY\nWERE AT A LEVEL OF $500 MILLION IN 1968\nAND $700 MILLION IN 1969, WITH MORE THAN\nHALF OF THE WASTES TREATED IN PUBLIC\nFACILITIES HAVING THEIR ORIGIN IN INDUSTRY.\nIT SEEMS THE MOST DESIRABLE POLICY\nIS TO ACCEPT ALL INDUSTRIAL WASTES THAT\nCAN BE TREATED IN MUNICIPAL PLANTS BUT TO\nESTABLISH USER FEES IN LINE WITH THE COSTS\nINCURRED TO COLLECT AND TREAT WASTES.\nGOVERNMENT MUST OVERSEE THE WAR\nDERALD FORD LIBRARY\nON POLLUTION BUT GOVERNMENT NEED NOT BE--\nIN FACT MUST NOT BE--HOSTILE TO THE PRIVATE\nSECTOR. IN PARTNERSHIP, WE WILL GO FORWARD.\n-17-\nTHE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IS TO\nLAY DOWN RULES FOR FIGHTING THE WAR AGAINST\nPOLLUTION--AND THEN TO ENFORCE THOSE RULES\nFAIRLY AND IMPARTIALLY UPON ALL PARTIES.\nTHE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE AROUSED.\nTHEY CAN TAKE AND WILL TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION.\nWE WILL WIN THIS WAR AGAINST\nPOLLUTION, AND IT WILL BE A VICTORY FOR THE\nFREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. ONLY IN FREEDOM\nCAN MEN RESPOND TO THE NEED FOR CHANGE IN\nA MANNER WHICH DOES NOT IMPOSE UPON THE\nDIGNITY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.\nFREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT UNDER THE\nFREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM PRODUCES AN EXPLOSION\nOF IDEAS AND INCENTIVES AND AN EVER-GROWING\nSTIMULUS TO HUMAN BETTERMENT.\nFREEDOM ALLOWS MAN TO DO THOSE\nBERALD FORD\nTHINGS WHICH HE OUGHT TO DO, FOR HIS OWN\nSPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING AND FOR\nTHE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF\n-18-\nHIS CHILDREN AND HIS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.\nIN. FREEDOM WE WILL WIN. VICTORY\nIN THIS WAR AGAINST POLLUTION WILL BE A\nTRIUMPH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. IT WILL BE\nA TECHNOLOGICAL TRIUMPH MADE POSSIBLE BY\nTHE JOINT EFFORT OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS\nAND THE EXPENDITURE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.\nIT WILL CONSTITUTE THE BIGGEST TASK IN\nMAN'S HISTORY, INVOLVING THE BUILDING OF A\nCOMPLEX TECHNOLOGY RESULTING FROM THE\nRECRUITMENT OF THE WORLD'S BEST MINDS.\nLET US GIVE FULL REIN TO THE\nGROWING POSSIBILITIES OF IMPROVING MAN'S\nENVIRONMENT. IF WE DO THIS, AND IF WE GO\nFORWARD IN FREEDOM, WE CAN MEET THIS\nCHALLENGE TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM\nDESTRUCTION.\nEND : :\nFORD & LIBRARY GERALD\nDistribution\n10 capies 10/6/70 to Mr. Fad only m Office Copy\nAN ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.\nREPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\nBEFORE THE DELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nAT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA\n7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1970\nFOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 6\nWe are nearing the end of the first year of a new decade. We are passing\nthrough the gateway of the Seventies. We are moving onto the pathway of progress--\nprogress toward peace, prosperity and plenty.\nThe great problems of the Sixties are yielding to the solutions of the\nSeventies.\nSizable steps have been taken toward peace with honor in Vietnam.\nThere are clear signs of success in the fight against inflation. We are\nwinning that fight, and we are in the early stages of a new era of growth in the\neconomy.\nAnd despite some reluctance on the part of some in Congress, we are moving\nto reform the social and political conditions left over from the past, conditions\nwhich have no place in the United States of the Seventies.\nBut government cannot achieve goals or priorities alone. It can reach its\nmajor objectives only with the help of the private sector, only by drawing upon the\nstrength and resources of private enterprise. It can achieve national goals only as\nit is aided by business and industry, the academic world, and by all of our citizens.\nWe are gathered here to honor an outstanding Delaware County citizen tonight.\nIn honoring Joseph Segel, we also acknowledge the tremendous contribution that the\nfree enterprise system has made to this country. And, bringing the subject closer\nto home, we take note of the dazzling record of progress made by industry in\nDelaware County--not only economic progress but significant contributions toward\nthe solution of such critical national problems as hard-core unemployment and\nenvironmental pollution.\nAt this point I would like to point out that industry in Delaware County has\na great and powerful friend in the Congress. I am speaking, of course, of the most\npowerful senator ever to represent the state of Pennsylvania, the Honorable Hugh\nScott. Hugh Scott speaks for Pennsylvania industry in Washington as no other senator\nhas ever spoken for it. He is keenly aware of the foreign import problem. He is\never concerned about the best interests of Pennsylvania.\n(more)\nGERALD\n-2-\nHugh, I am sure, joins me in congratulating the Delaware County Chamber of\nCommerce for its splendid achievements in training the hard-core unemployed through\nthe Job Opportunities in the Business Sector program and in commending Delaware\nCounty industry for its special emphasis on pollution control.\nI congratulate you because you have become involved. You are proving that\nbusiness and businessmen can do what no other segment of America can do to benefit\nour people--attack hard-core unemployment through the best kind of on-the-job\ntraining and fight industrial pollution through your own best efforts.\nYou gentlemen know that Federal tax dollars or, even worse, Federal deficit\nspending, cannot buy solutions to our most crucial national problems. That is why\nthe Chamber's job salesmen have been able to secure job pledges for more than\n600 hard-core unemployed in Delaware County over the past 18 months. And that is why\nyou have moved on your own to join in the fight against the poisoning of our\nenvironment.\nThe best proof is here--right here--that unemployment and other urban problems\ncan best be solved through a strong partnership of business and government.\nI think we can agree on one principle of business-government problem-solving\nat the outset.\nPrivate enterprise can make major contributions to solving social problems\nbut business's central purpose has to be to make a profit. That's what it exists\nfor. That is its reason for being. It cannot afford to take on all the costs of\neconomic and social improvement. So what we are really talking about is cooperation--\ncontinuing cooperation between government and business which results in a successful\nproblem-solving partnership.\nThat's the kind of partnership we have in the Job Opportunities in the Business\nSector program. The J.O.B.S. program is an outstanding example of the sound and\ncreative approaches to social problems that are needed in the Seventies.\nGovernment's role should be to provide the economic stimulus for business to\ndo the job under conditions compatible with the profit incentive.\nUnder the present Administration, government has done exactly that--and\nbusiness has responded by taking the lead in meeting the major national problem of\nhard-core unemployment and underemployment.\nBusiness is doing a magnificent job with the J.O.B.S. program. This\npartnership between business and government has been a tremendous success, and it\nis a continuing success.\n(more)\n-3-\nSince the program began, J.O.B.S. employers have hired and trained nearly\n500,000 disadvantaged persons.\nJ.O.B.S. is one of eight manpower training programs operated by the Federal\nGovernment. It is a vital part of an overall manpower training effort which saw\nnearly 736,000 Americans enrolled in work and training programs at the end of\nAugust, the latest available figure. That was 79,000 more enrollments than in\nAugust 1969, an increase of 12 per cent.\nThe greatest increase was in the J.O.B.S. program. Employment under\ncontract programs reached a new high of 50,000, and employment under non-contract\nprograms under the National Alliance of Businessmen climbed to 180,000, for a\ncombined total of 230,000.\nI learned just before coming here that if you add up all the persons who have\never received training under Federal manpower work and training programs the figure\nis a staggering 1,035,000 through June 1970. At the end of fiscal 1970, the figure\ntopped a million for the first time.\nAs I said earlier, business is making a tremendous contribution to this\nsplendid effort aimed at giving dignity and a decent livelihood to hundreds of\nthousands of disadvantaged citizens. The entire Nation has benefited.\nBusiness can be said to have come of age in terms of corporate citizenship.\nIt has passed with a superb score the test of aiding the disadvantaged.\nBut what of the environmental crisis? That will be a test more severe than\nany other for business and industry.\nIs the business community ignoring the pollution of our atmosphere, the water\nwe drink and the air we breathe, the wanton destruction of our environment?\nThere are those who would have America believe SO. But they are dead wrong.\nThey are wrong on the facts, and they are wrong in their approach to the problems\ninvolved in restoring our environment.\nI agree with those who set tough goals for industry to reach--who seek a\npollution-free automobile engine by 1975 or '76.\nBut bear in mind that it was not until the 1950's that automotive fuels were\nfound to be one of the major causes of smog. We have made significant progress in\nmeeting the problem since then.\nThe 1970 cars, for instance, emit only a fraction of the pollutants that were\nemitted from a car built as recently as 1960, and the automotive industry has\ncommitted itself to solving the pollution problem completely at the earliest\npossible time. In that connection, the automotive industry has the full cooperation\n(more)\n-4-\nof the oil industry, which is modifying the content of its fuel.\nAll of us became excited on Earth Day this year. There was reason to become\nexcited. We finally realized that the poisoning of our atmosphere threatens our very\nsurvival.\nA challenge to our survival does not justify national hysteria. Hysteria\nhas never produced any rational solutions to our problems.\nIf I were going to bet on who will come up with a solution to automotive\npollution, I would much rather put my money on the men in Detroit or on Bill Lear,\nthe engineering genius who is developing a steam turbine car, than on the college\nshow-offs who dig a hole on campus and bury a car in the ground.\nThere is a critical need today to bring man into harmony with nature. But\nI don't think we are going to do it by attacking industry or declaring war on all\neconomic progress.\nWe must declare war on environmental pollution, and it is a war we must win.\nBut we must pursue a grand strategy in waging that war, not engage in a vicious\ntargetting of industry which will wreck our economic machine and put people out of\nwork.\nAgain, as in the crusade to aid the disadvantaged with training and jobs,\nwe need a partnership between government and business. In fact we need a network\nof partnerships--between government and business, between the Federal government and\nstate and local governments, between government and the individual citizen.\nWorking together we can meet the environmental crisis. Working against each\nother, we can only come to grief.\nIt is vital that we work together.\nI do not think it is helpful for the extreme environmentalists to sneer at the\n37-point anti-pollution program President Nixon sent to Congress last February on\nthe ground that only extreme measures will be useful in combatting pollution.\nI do not think it is helpful for the majority party in Congress to refuse\neven to hold hearings on the President's proposed Environmental Financing Authority\nbill which is intended to help finance the State and local share of waste treatment\nplants.\nI do not think it is helpful to pose the environmental question in terms of\na choice between clean air and water or more and more kilowatts, a livable\nenvironment or more and more cars. I think we will have more kilowatts but clean\nair and water as well. I think we will achieve a livable environment despite more\nand more cars. Let us not engage in a game of silly doomsday alternatives. We can\n(more)\nGERALD\n-5-\nfind the answers without that kind of nonsense.\nThe truth is that the President's environmental message of last February\nrepresented a landmark. It was the first time the people had been given a\npresidential assessment of the state of their environment. It was the first time\nin recent history that a President of the United States had committed himself to a\ncrusade for a clean environment, a restoration of our land to its former state of\nAmerica the Beautiful.\nI firmly believe that congressional approval of the President's environmental\nproposals would be a great step toward improving the quality of our environment.\nI think it appropriate and healthy that in the President's water pollution\ncontrol program the Federal cost-share of the four-year program would be\n$4 billion and the State and local shares, $6 billion.\nThis is in line with an updated Federal Water Quality Administration report\nwhich puts the Nation's requirements for community waste treatment facilities at\n$9.9 billion over the next four years.\nAction must be taken to stimulate a greatly expanded program of water pollution\ncontrol by local communities. That is where the President's Environmental Financing\nAuthority comes in, with Federal underwriting of local bond issues.\nFederal funding is not the sole answer. The FWQA report I cited earlier\nrevealed that the $880 million local communities put into water pollution control in\n1969 did little more than cover replacement and growth needs. In addition, the report\nshowed that the ratio of community funding put up to match Federal grants has slipped\nfrom $13.70 per Federal water pollution control dollar spent in 1960 to $5.20 per\nFederal dollar at present. Stimulus is needed.\nAt the same time, water pollution control investments by industry apparently\nwere at a level of $500 million in 1968 and $700 million in 1969, with more than\nhalf of the wastes treated in public facilities having their origin in industry.\nIt seems the most desirable policy is to accept all industrial wastes that\ncan be treated in municipal plants but to establish user fees in line with the costs\nincurred to collect and treat wastes.\nGovernment must oversee the war on pollution but government need not be--\nin fact must not be--hostile to the private sector. In partnership, we will go\nforward.\nThe important consideration is to lay down rules for fighting the war against\npollution--and then to enforce those rules fairly and impartially upon all parties.\n(more)\n-6-\nThe American people are aroused. They can take and will take effective\naction.\nWe will win this war against pollution, and it will be a victory for the free\nenterprise system. Only in freedom can men respond to the need for change in a manner\nwhich does not impose upon the dignity of the human spirit.\nFreedom as we know it under the free enterprise system produces an explosion\nof ideas and incentives and an ever-growing stimulus to human betterment.\nFreedom allows man to do those things which he ought to do, for his own\nspiritual and physical well-being and for the spiritual and physical well-being of\nhis children and his children's children.\nIn freedom we will win. Victory in this war against pollution will be a\ntriumph of the human spirit. It will be a technological triumph made possible by\nthe joint effort of millions of Americans and the expenditure of billions of dollars.\nIt will constitute the biggest task in man's history, involving the building of a\ncomplex technology resulting from the recruitment of the world's best minds.\nLet us give full rein to the growing possibilities of improving man's\nenvironment. If we do this, and if we go forward in freedom, we can meet this\nchallenge to save our environment from destruction.\n# # #\n10 copies to Mr. Ford only\nQ Office Copy\nAN ADDRESS BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.\nREPUBLICAN LEADER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\nBEFORE THE DELAWARE COUNTY, PA., CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nAT MEDIA, PENNSYLVANIA\n7 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1970\nFOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 6\nWe are nearing the end of the first year of a new decade. We are passing\nthrough the gateway of the Seventies. We are moving onto the pathway of progress--\nprogress toward peace, prosperity and plenty.\nThe great problems of the Sixties are yielding to the solutions of the\nSeventies.\nSizable steps have been taken toward peace with honor in Vietnam.\nThere are clear signs of success in the fight against inflation. We are\nwinning that fight, and we are in the early stages of a new era of growth in the\neconomy.\nAnd despite some reluctance on the part of some in Congress, we are moving\nto reform the social and political conditions left over from the past, conditions\nwhich have no place in the United States of the Seventies.\nBut government cannot achieve goals or priorities alone. It can reach its\nmajor objectives only with the help of the private sector, only by drawing upon the\nstrength and resources of private enterprise. It can achieve national goals only as\nit is aided by business and industry, the academic world, and by all of our citizens.\nWe are gathered here to honor an outstanding Delaware County citizen tonight.\nIn honoring Joseph Segel, we also acknowledge the tremendous contribution that the\nfree enterprise system has made to this country. And, bringing the subject closer\nto home, we take note of the dazzling record of progress made by industry in\nDelaware County--not only economic progress but significant contributions toward\nthe solution of such critical national problems as hard-core unemployment and\nenvironmental pollution.\nAt this point I would like to point out that industry in Delaware County has\na great and powerful friend in the Congress. I am speaking, of course, of the most\npowerful senator ever to represent the state of Pennsylvania, the Honorable Hugh\nScott. Hugh Scott speaks for Pennsylvania industry in Washington as no other senator\nhas ever spoken for it. He is keenly aware of the foreign import problem. He is\never concerned about the best interests of Pennsylvania.\n(more)\n-2-\nHugh, I am sure, joins me in congratulating the Delaware County Chamber of\nCommerce for its splendid achievements in training the hard-core unemployed through\nthe Job Opportunities in the Business Sector program and in commending Delaware\nCounty industry for its special emphasis on pollution control.\nI congratulate you because you have become involved. You are proving that\nbusiness and businessmen can do what no other segment of America can do to benefit\nour people--attack hard-core unemployment through the best kind of on-the-job\ntraining and fight industrial pollution through your own best efforts.\nYou gentlemen know that Federal tax dollars or, even worse, Federal deficit\nspending, cannot buy solutions to our most crucial national problems. That is why\nthe Chamber's job salesmen have been able to secure job pledges for more than\n600 hard-core unemployed in Delaware County over the past 18 months. And that is why\nyou have moved on your own to join in the fight against the poisoning of our\nenvironment.\nThe best proof is here--right here--that unemployment and other urban problems\ncan best be solved through a strong partnership of business and government.\nI think we can agree on one principle of business-government problem-solving\nat the outset.\nPrivate enterprise can make major contributions to solving social problems\nbut business's central purpose has to be to make a profit. That's what it exists\nfor. That is its reason for being. It cannot afford to take on all the costs of\neconomic and social improvement. So what we are really talking about is cooperation--\ncontinuing cooperation between government and business which results in a successful\nproblem-solving partnership.\nThat's the kind of partnership we have in the Job Opportunities in the Business\nSector program. The J.O.B.S. program is an outstanding example of the sound and\ncreative approaches to social problems that are needed in the Seventies.\nGovernment's role should be to provide the economic stimulus for business to\ndo the job under conditions compatible with the profit incentive.\nUnder the present Administration, government has done exactly that-and\nbusiness has responded by taking the lead in meeting the major national problem of\nhard-core unemployment and underemployment.\nBusiness is doing a magnificent job with the J.O.B.S. program. This\npartnership between business and government has been a tremendous success, and it\nis a continuing success.\n(more)\n-3-\nSince the program began, J.O.B.S. employers have hired and trained nearly\n500,000 disadvantaged persons.\nJ.O.B.S. is one of eight manpower training programs operated by the Federal\nGovernment. It is a vital part of an overall manpower training effort which saw\nnearly 736,000 Americans enrolled in work and training programs at the end of\nAugust, the latest available figure. That was 79,000 more enrollments than in\nAugust 1969, an increase of 12 per cent.\nThe greatest increase was in the J.O.B.S. program. Employment under\ncontract programs reached a new high of 50,000, and employment under non-contract\nprograms under the National Alliance of Businessmen climbed to 180,000, for a\ncombined total of 230,000.\nI learned just before coming here that if you add up all the persons who have\never received training under Federal manpower work and training programs the figure\nis a staggering 1,035,000 through June 1970. At the end of fiscal 1970, the figure\ntopped a million for the first time.\nAs I said earlier, business is making a tremendous contribution to this\nsplendid effort aimed at giving dignity and a decent livelihood to hundreds of\nthousands of disadvantaged citizens. The entire Nation has benefited.\nBusiness can be said to have come of age in terms of corporate citizenship.\nIt has passed with a superb score the test of aiding the disadvantaged.\nBut what of the environmental crisis? That will be a test more severe than\nany other for business and industry.\nIs the business community ignoring the pollution of our atmosphere, the water\nwe drink and the air we breathe, the wanton destruction of our environment?\nThere are those who would have America believe SO. But they are dead wrong.\nThey are wrong on the facts, and they are wrong in their approach to the problems\ninvolved in restoring our environment.\nI agree with those who set tough goals for industry to reach--who seek a\npollution-free automobile engine by 1975 or '76.\nBut bear in mind that it was not until the 1950's that automotive fuels were\nfound to be one of the major causes of smog. We have made significant progress in\nmeeting the problem since then.\nThe 1970 cars, for instance, emit only a fraction of the pollutants that were\nemitted from a car built as recently as 1960, and the automotive industry has\ncommitted itself to solving the pollution problem completely at the earliest\npossible time. In that connection, the automotive industry has the full cooperation\n(more)\n-4--\nof the oil industry, which is modifying the content of its fuel.\nAll of us became excited on Earth Day this year. There was reason to become\nexcited. We finally realized that the poisoning of our atmosphere threatens our very\nsurvival.\nA challenge to our survival does not justify national hysteria. Hysteria\nhas never produced any rational solutions to our problems.\nIf I were going to bet on who will come up with a solution to automotive\npollution, I would much rather put my money on the men in Detroit or on Bill Lear,\nthe engineering genius who is developing a steam turbine car, than on the college\nshow-offs who dig a hole on campus and bury a car in the ground.\nThere is a critical need today to bring man into harmony with nature. But\nI don't think we are going to do it by attacking industry or declaring war on all\neconomic progress.\nWe must declare war on environmental pollution, and it is a war we must win.\nBut we must pursue a grand strategy in waging that war, not engage in a vicious\ntargetting of industry which will wreck our economic machine and put people out of\nwork.\nAgain, as in the crusade to aid the disadvantaged with training and jobs,\nwe need a partnership between government and business. In fact we need a network\nof partnerships--between government and business, between the Federal government and\nstate and local governments, between government and the individual citizen.\nWorking together we can meet the environmental crisis. Working against each\nother, we can only come to grief.\nIt is vital that we work together.\nI do not think it is helpful for the extreme environmentalists to sneer at the\n37-point anti-pollution program President Nixon sent to Congress last February on\nthe ground that only extreme measures will be useful in combatting pollution.\nI do not think it is helpful for the majority party in Congress to refuse\neven to hold hearings on the President's proposed Environmental Financing Authority\nbill which is intended to help finance the State and local share of waste treatment\nplants.\nI do not think it is helpful to pose the environmental question in terms of\na choice between clean air and water or more and more kilowatts, a livable\nenvironment or more and more cars. I think we will have more kilowatts but clean\nair and water as well. I think we will achieve a livable environment despite more\nand more cars. Let us not engage in a game of silly doomsday alternatives. We can\n(more)\n-5-\nfind the answers without that kind of nonsense.\nThe truth is that the President's environmental message of last February\nrepresented a landmark. It was the first time the people had been given a\npresidential assessment of the state of their environment. It was the first time\nin recent history that a President of the United States had committed himself to a\ncrusade for a clean environment, a restoration of our land to its former state of\nAmerica the Beautiful.\nI firmly believe that congressional approval of the President's environmental\nproposals would be a great step toward improving the quality of our environment.\nI think it appropriate and healthy that in the President's water pollution\ncontrol program the Federal cost-share of the four-year program would be\n$4 billion and the State and local shares, $6 billion.\nThis is in line with an updated Federal Water Quality Administration report\nwhich puts the Nation's requirements for community waste treatment facilities at\n$9.9 billion over the next four years.\nAction must be taken to stimulate a greatly expanded program of water pollution\ncontrol by local communities. That is where the President's Environmental Financing\nAuthority comes in, with Federal underwriting of local bond issues.\nFederal funding is not the sole answer. The FWQA report I cited earlier\nrevealed that the $880 million local communities put into water pollution control in\n1969 did little more than cover replacement and growth needs. In addition, the report\nshowed that the ratio of community funding put up to match Federal grants has slipped\nfrom $13.70 per Federal water pollution control dollar spent in 1960 to $5.20 per\nFederal dollar at present. Stimulus is needed.\nAt the same time, water pollution control investments by industry apparently\nwere at a level of $500 million in 1968 and $700 million in 1969, with more than\nhalf of the wastes treated in public facilities having their origin in industry.\nIt seems the most desirable policy is to accept all industrial wastes that\ncan be treated in municipal plants but to establish user fees in line with the costs\nincurred to collect and treat wastes.\nGovernment must oversee the war on pollution but government need not be--\nin fact must not be--hostile to the private sector. In partnership, we will go\nforward.\nThe important consideration is to lay down rules for fighting the war against\npollution and then to enforce those rules fairly and impartially upon all parties.\n(more)\n-6-\nThe American people are aroused. They can take and will take effective\naction.\nWe will win this war against pollution, and it will be a victory for the free\nenterprise system. Only in freedom can men respond to the need for change in a manner\nwhich does not impose upon the dignity of the human spirit.\nFreedom as we know it under the free enterprise system produces an explosion\nof ideas and incentives and an ever-growing stimulus to human betterment.\nFreedom allows man to do those things which he ought to do, for his own\nspiritual and physical well-being and for the spiritual and physical well-being of\nhis children and his children's children.\nIn freedom we will win. Victory in this war against pollution will be a\ntriumph of the human spirit. It will be a technological triumph made possible by\nthe joint effort of millions of Americans and the expenditure of billions of dollars.\nIt will constitute the biggest task in man's history, involving the building of a\ncomplex technology resulting from the recruitment of the world's best minds.\nLet us give full rein to the growing possibilities of improving man's\nenvironment. If we do this, and if we go forward in freedom, we can meet this\nchallenge to save our environment from destruction.\n# # #"
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