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THE PLAihdEALEK ^Capital Report The annual reception held by the President and First Lady for the members of Congress is perhaps the highlight of the Washington social season. This year, President and Mrs. Johnson have inaugurate! a new formal consisting of ten separate Congressional receptions, to each of which approximately fifty members of Congress and their wi\es were invited. Mrs. McClory and I had the opportunity of attending such ;• receptiortej&recent ly, and it is this expfrience which is the subject of this report from Washington. Unlike all earlier receptions President and Mrs. Johnson proclaimed immediately upon our arrival in the Blue Room of the While House that the evening was to be entirely informal and one to be enjoyed to the fullest extent. In fact, the President announced when the group had assembled that he and Mrs. Johnson, having attended White House receptions for the past twenty-five years while he served in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, ha J discussed the type of recepion to be given, and had then determined to provide an evening for the Congressmen and their wives consistent with that which they would have enjoyed in earlier years. An absence of servants and military and other aides in the early stages of the White House reception made the evening seem like a gathering in any other American home. Only two special guests were present to greet the members of Congress, namely Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Both of these men were described by the President as among his closest advisors. Together with the President, they presented informal, off-the-record talks. The President discussed domestic issues and the federal budget, as well as expressing an awareness of the serious trouble spots affecting World peace and our national welfare. Speaking with frankhess and frequent humor, the President's remarks" were temporarily disarming to even his sharpest critics, some of whom were among those gathered to visit with hirp in the state dining room. Following the President, Secretary McNamara discussed in detail with figures and statistics the relative position of this nation militarily as compared to the Soviet Union. All types and descriptions of armaments were included, and assurances of continuing emphasis on national security and military deterrents were presented frankly and openly. Secretary of State Dean Rusk followed with a detailed analysis of each of the complicated international trouble spots, including Panama, Cyprus, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, and the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Ladv Bird Johnson was entertaining the Congressional wives in the second floor private quarters of the Johnson family. These were comprised of the family dining room and bedrooms, as well as the guest bedrooms which official visitors such as Queen Fredericka and others occupied on recent visits to Washington. Nothing could have pleased the wives more than this tour, during which the background of furniture and other interior decorations was described and the history of many significant pieces was given. The President's reception of the Congressmen ended as they were rejoined by the Congressional wives. From then on, the evening was devoted to a buffet supper and dancing, during which time I had the privilege of dancing at length with the First Lady. In typical fashion, we discussed our respective families and children, as well as a little "politics". Meanwhile, Mrs. McClory was dancing with one of the military aides when suddenly he exchanged partners with another dancer on the floor, and she found herself with the President of the United States as her dancing partner. The red-jacketed Marine dance band provided music much to our liking, and the dancing continued for several hours with a frequent exchange of partners which included my "LAY OFF THAT 'DUMB ANIMAL' ALIBI . . . ANYBODY CAN RUN A MOTO-MOWER ROTARY!" See Them On Display NOW! * FF 4102 W. Crystal Lake Road Phone 385-0420 dance with Lynda Bird Johnson, the twenty-year-old Johnson daughter who displayed a poise and charm of which her parents may be proud. Our evening at the White House had begun at 6 p.m. When the band played "Good Night, Ladiels" at 9 p.m., we drifted back from the East Room into the Great Hall to bid President and Mrs. Johnson "goodnight", and to add, "Thank you, Mr. President and Lady Bird, for an evening of genuine enjoyment." If White House receptions were stiff affairs in the past, they are not any more--not since Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Johnson took up residence there. The so-called "War on Poverty" set forth in H. R. 10440, now pending before the House Committee on Education and Labor, should be considered in the light of its need,1 its costs and its election year implications. There is no question but that we have serious conditions of poverty. These conditions exist to a much greater extent in some areas than in others. According tb the best information which has reached me, condi^ tions of poverty are regional, sectional, vary according to racial and ethnic patterns, and depend largely upon the quality and extent of individual and family education. There is need for definite national action, but there is serious doubt as to the need for new federal programs. There is need for action in the area of education, but there is serious doubt as to the need for a new and overlapping program of vocational training or a new and supplemental work-study program. Congresses and administrations in the past have been conscious of the public needs in the areas of poverty, education and employment. To use these conditions now as an election year excuse for establishing multiple programs, new and additional federal payrolls and new types of appropriations (which are bound to increase in the future), reflects upon the American personality and the American tradition of concern for our fellow man. Were not vocational rehabilitation, unemployment compensation, blind pensions, old age assistance and other Social Security benefits designed to alleviate or guard against poverty? In addition, Public Housing, Area Redevelopment, Accelerated Public Works and many other programs have been "sold" to the public and to the Congress as measures designed to provide better living for certain of our citizens. Furthermore, just last year the Congress enacted two huge federal programs: (1) the Manpower Development and Training Act, and (2) the Vocational Education Act of 1963--both designed to improve economic opportunities for our young people. Republicans and Democrats joined in support of these measures. However, this election year's "Poverty Package" is strictly an administration creation. It involves twelve new federal programs with some of them ignoring our traditional Federal system of state and local responsibility. For instance, Title I of the "package" bill (H. R. 10440) would establish: (1) a Job Corps (for men and boys only) similar to the old C.C.C. but with emphasis on vocational training; (2) a work-training program to help in hospitals, schools, etc., provided no existing personnel are replaced (open to men and women); and KANE COMMITTEE LEARNS PLANS FOR WATERWAYS Residents of the McHenry area were invited to the meeting of the Kane County Clean Streams committee held April 29 in Algonquin. This Clean Streams committee has been active in trying to eliminate the great amount of industrial polution that causes the Fox River to be unattractive in Kane County. Dr. J. McMahon of McHenry reported on the proposed establishment of the North Fox Valley Conservancy district. Because polution of the waterways is a nation-wide problem, the members felt that the only way it could be cleared, up would be at the source of each violation. Thomas Philbin, regional engineer of the Illinois Sanitary Water board with offices at Aurora, staled that his office has only four employes to cover thirteen counties and that the state can devote only a small portion of its efforts to any one given area. Therefore he agreed that it would be to the advantage of a district to establish its own consulting and policing organization in order to start (leaning up the waterways. Rep. Hill of Kane county re-t ported on the work he has been doing in his area to locate and eliminate sources of violations. Rep. A. B. MeConnell of McHenry county was also present and expressed concern about the condition of the waterways and his approval of the movement to establish the North Fox Valley Conservancy district. (3) a work-study program to provide jobs for college students. All of these programs are intended to be administered by the federal government, all must be "approved" by the federal "director" and all will impinge on the exisitng Vocational Education, Manpower Retraining or state or Federal scholarship programs. Further comments on the "War against Poverty" will be made in a subsequent Report from Washington. '63 Traffic Toll Inspires Action To Reduce Accidents In 1963 the nation's highway carnage exceeded the grim figure of 39,969 persons killed in 1941 -- a record high which sto$d for twenty years -- and even surpassed the new record of 40,500 deaths established in 1962. McHenry county's contribution to that figure has inspired formation of a safety council in a concerted effort to cut the toll this year. The number of people injured in traffic accidents also continued its relentless upward trend. U. S. Highway deaths in 1963 totaled 42,700 -- an alltime high -- representing a five and a half per cent increase over 1962. The report also reveals a three and a half per cent jump in the number of injured in 1963 as compared with 1962. In all, 3,460,000 men, women and children were hurt in auto accidents last year. "Even though the exact figures vary from year to year, the tragic formula holds true in more than eight out of every ten auto casualties -- too much carelessness behind the wheel, and too little regard for the safety of others." Excessive speed again led other factors as the single greatest cause of street and highway accidents. More than jl4,000 persons were killed and .more than 1,223,000 were injured as a direct result of speeding violations. Other major causes of accidents included failure to yield the right-of-way and driving on tfie wrong side of the road. Don't try to be a fast driver if you ar£ a slow thinker. According to the Institute for Safer Living, motorists should adjust their spe<L'd to known comfortable reaction levels. 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