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    "ocrText": "CROSS REFERENCE SHEET\nName or subject\nBeam, L. Mills\nSEE\nName or subject\nAmericanism Educational League\nDate 6/56\nCorrespondence preceding\nFiled\nU.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-57669-1\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nBeam Smelters\n10535 BUFORD AVENUE\nINGLEWOOD 2, CALIFORNIA\nOctober 20, 1955\nORchard 7-5345\nHon. Richard M. Nixon, Vice President\nSenate Office Bldg.\nWashington, D.C.\nHonorable Sir:\nNext month the governors of eleven Western States are conducting an important minerals conference in\nSacramento, California. I am privileged to be one of scores of men engaged in the mining industry serving on\nthe general committee.\nFor more than thirty years I have been active in developing new mining projects, building equipment,\nand operating mines. These projects range from one-man exploratory projects to major operations. It is my\nfirm conviction that such a conference being held on November 7 and 8 is sorely needed to coordinate an industry\nvital to our welfare as a Nation, and which has been neglected by the Congress. The most able men in the West\nare studying our problems with the hope that from this conference will come sound suggestions for legislative\naction designed to restore the health of a crippled industry. I know that you will give the report of this con-\nference your personal attention when you receive it. No doubt you have read the illuminating report of the\nSenate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Senate Report 1627), compiled from testimony of more than\n300 outstanding experts in the mining industry, bearing out these contentions.\nIn the meantime, I should like to present my studied view of the Federal stockpiling program. Reports\nhave it that soon the stockpiling of certain strategic minerals will be terminated. If such termination is the\nresult of new optimism on the international scene, I would urge extreme caution on the part of this Government.\nBehind the smiling faces of Soviet leaders is still an unswerving loyalty to the philosophy of Karl Marx. The\nvery essence of Marxism is universality. Communism can never be contained within the borders of one nation,\nor a group of them. It must encompass the entire world to remain efficacious. It is by its very nature and\nbeing, a universal state. Hence, any attempt at \"peaceful co-existence\" can be but a temporary expedient for\nthe Soviet Union.\nUnder these circumstances, the Government must continue to stockpile strategic minerals as an essential\nfactor in national security, since present sources of vital minerals from distant mines can easily be shut off by\nbombing or by submarine warfare. The Government does not lose by stockpiling. These minerals represent\ntangible wealth, whether we buy from the Government today or ten years hence. The stockpiling of domestic\nminerals has the additional value of strengthening an industry vital to the economy of this Nation in peacetime\nas well as in wartime.\nFurthermore, the extraction of minerals from the earth is the soundest method of creating new wealth\nfor the Nation. Without an adequate stockpiling program, the small operator cannot continue to do business,\nand many have already closed their mines. Government indifference to the problems of the small operator is\nleading us more swiftly into monoply, where only a few multimillion dollar firms can develop and operate proper-\nties heretofore operated by small companies. Such monopolies can one day become a threat to our entire\neconomy.\nI am sure that members of the mining industry over the Nation feel that the termination of the Govern-\nment stockpiling program would constitute a major setback in our national defense structure. May I sincerely\nrequest your continued support of the measure to continue stockpiling of strategic minerals until there is real\nassurance that the Soviet Union has renounced its plans for world domination.\nKin personal\nYours very truly,\nreg\nL.\nMILLS BEAM\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nU.S., POSTAGE 3¢\nBeam Smelters\nGODWE\n10535 BUFORD AVENUE\nINGL EWOOD.C OCT20 6-PM CALIF\nINGLEWOOD 2, CALIFORNIA\nSERVICE\n7955\nHon. Richard M. Nixon, Vice President\nSenate Office Building\nWashington, D.C.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nCOPY\nJuly 10, 1953\nMr. D. H. Jackson, President\nJackson Chemical Company\n6920 South Stanford Avenue\nLos Angeles 1, California\nDear Mr. Jackson:\nI wish to acknowledge, on behalf of the\nVice President, your letter of July 6 recom-\nmending the appointment of Mr. L. Mills Beam\nas Director of the Bureau of Mines.\nYou may be sure the Vice President will\nappreciate your interest in writing to him and I\nknow he will be glad to discuss Mr. Beam's\nappointment to this position with Senator Knowland\nand Senator Kuchel, since the appointments from\nCalifornia are cleared through them. I am sure\nthat he will see also that your recommendation of\nMr. Beam is brought to the attention of those who\nare considering the various applicants for the posi-\ntion of Director of the Bureau of Mines.\nI know the Vice President would want me to\nextend his best wishes to you.\nSincerely yours,\nRobert D. Ladd\nExecutive Secretary\nto the Vice President\nRDL:b1\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
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