are working actively now toward creating a committee of clergymen. We will probably have the chairmanship on a rotating basis. We have a rabbi, a priest, and a minister, and they will probably take turns rotating annually.

REHABILITATION OF INJURED FARMWORKERS

Another program we are about to launch on is an area which was mentioned today by Secretary Goldberg which we think is vitally important in this field to the handicapped and it is one that has been neglected and that is agriculture. We find there is practically nothing done in connection with rehabilitation or placement of those injured in agriculture. We feel that there are three great areas that we can help develop programs from the President's Committee by working with the agencies of the Government and private agencies. One is to rehabilitate the farmworker who is injured on the job so that he can be rehabilitated to do some other type of work on the farm. A second is the farmworker who is so injured that he cannot work on the farm again but can be rehabilitated and receive vocational training so that he can work in industry and the third group are those who are in urban areas who simply do not fit because of the nature of their physical handicap into industry but can very well fit into certain jobs with proper rehabilitation in agriculture, so with these three great programs driving ahead with all of the other programs that we have, we feel that we are making real progress. I would not even attempt to catalog the progress we have made, Mr. Chairman, during the past year. would not take your time, but we do feel that we have really made significant progress, and we feel that the statistics, while they are mere numbers and not the real story, do tell a part of the story. The real story, of course, is the story of human beings on welfare and the attendant degradation and getting those people back to work so they can again take their place in the community.

IMPACT OF PROGRAM ON PEOPLE ABROAD

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We feel this is not only significant in this country but in every community in which the activities are carried out, and we believe that this has a tremendous impact abroad. In fact I know it has, Mr. Chairman. I have been abroad some nine times since I have been blind and I have many, many friends in Asia and Africa, and I know how impressed they are with what we do for our handicapped. I have had many of them say, "If you think so much of your crippled, the richest country in the world, and have volunteers by the thousands who help them to be restored, then you really must base your respect. for democracy on the individual." So I believe what we are doing goes far beyond the individuals and the statistics who get jobs.

I would like to ask in conclusion that you include, Mr. Chairman, a statement of the President in connection with the Executive order expanding the Committee and his very fine endorsement of the work that the Committee is doing.

Senator HILL. We will be happy to include that in the record immediately following your remarks.

BUDGET REQUEST

You spoke of the progress that has been made and, as I say, you have done a magnificent job in this work. I note that in the budget you have an increase of only $2,000 for the coming fiscal year. You

had $276,000, I believe, for this fiscal year and your budget estimate is $278,700, is that right?

General MAAS. The 1962 appropriation act provided not less than $276,000 for our operation but we will use a little more, $278,700, so that the 1963 estimate is no increase.

Senator HILL. Do you think you can do your job all right with these funds?

General MAAS. I will do it with whatever you give me but, Mr. Chairman, while I love to take credit-well, you know, I am a modest Marine

Senator HILL. You mean you were a modest Marine when you reminded us that that title was wrong.

General MAAS. I love to take credit for all work that is done and I like to take the bows, but actually the progress we have made has been made by a great many other people.

Senator HILL. You are always most generous. Remember what Mr. Carnegie said,

It is not what I can do for myself but it is what I can get other men to do for me. and you have certainly been most successful, and you have provided inspiring leadership in this job that brought in the efforts and work and the help of so many other people. If there are no other questions, General, we are always delighted to have you here and we very much appreciate your appearance this morning."

(The prepared statement of General Maas and the statement of the President in connection with the Executive order as referred to follow:)

Mr. Chairman, members of the Appropriations Subcommittee, it is good to be back up here again with so many old friends of the handicapped, but it is hard to believe that a year has passed since our last visit to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. So much has been done in the past 12 months and so much cooperation has been obtained, that it is extremely difficult to summarize recent developments.

Most significant was the action taken by the executive committee in November to request the President to delete the word "Physically" from the title of the Committee. I made such a request and a new Executive order was released last week by the President to accomplish this result. Changes were also made increasing the authorized membership of the executive committee by 10, increasing the Vice Chairmen to 3 and adding the Secretary of Agriculture to the Advisory Council. I am happy to submit a copy of Executive Order 10994 for inclusion at the end of my remarks if the chairman is agreeable.

The complexity of the various problems facing the Committee and the increase in the number of national groups anxious to make substantial contributions to our work has made an increase in executive committee membership imperative. We plan to establish new committees for religious groups and for women's organizations this year and will be working much more closely with workshop groups and with those in the architectural field, to name only some which should be represented.

The release recently of new building standards by the American Standards Association brings to a successful completion the first phase of our attack on architectural barriers. As a result of the combined labors of a top-level sectional committee of the American Standards Association, we now have a fighting chance to see that handicapped persons in wheelchairs or with ambulatory problems will no longer be barred from all buildings and structures, including Federal,

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State, and municipal buildings, libraries, museums, churches, and synagogues, and office buildings and other work places. A summary of the new standards were appended at the end of my prepared statement before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations. I am sure it is available to members of this committee. President Kennedy and members of the administration have promised to help implement this most important project. We naturally will devote considerable attention to it in our publicity efforts this year and in the years to come.

With the addition of the Secretary of Agriculture to our Advisory Council, it is our hope that we can make a major step forward in a better understanding of the role of the handicapped in the agricultural environment, both in the field of safety and in the field of rehabilitation and employment of qualified handicapped persons.

It goes without saying that religion is a vital factor in our national life and we hope to capitalize on the fine work done by religious groups informally and without too much coordination by the committee up to now. We also have ambitious plans to get the women of America more involved in the handicapped program in a more organized and direct manner.

We also are becoming more involved with the safety side of our economy and are participating in the National Health Council's 1962 forum at which five of the nine sectional meetings in the industrial safety area will deal with the subject "Employ the Handicapped, Safely." This is a most important new development. We will hold five regional meetings in the next 6 months, in addition to our annual meeting here on May 10-11, a feature of which will be a simulated congressional hearing on the rehabilitation and employment of the handicapped and a play featuring the employment of the mentally recovered worker. Since our major increase last year was to implement the Committee responsibility in the mentally retarded and mentally restored area, a more complete summary is in order. The highlights follow:

The Committee now publishes a newsletter on "Tips and Trends in Employment of the Mentally Handicapped" which has grown in circulation from 1,000 to nearly 10,000. It serves as a clearinghouse of effective and imaginative placement activities for the mentally handicapped and, according to comments, is serving a definite need.

The Committee has established close working relationships with the National Association for Mental Health, the National Association for Retarded Children, the President's Panel on Mental Retardation, and other organizations of like nature. One result of these relationships has been the preparation of a "Job Placement Guide for the Mentally Retarded"-first of its kind-written for the President's Committee by the NAMH. On the basis of an outline alone, more than 50,000 requests for copies have been received.

At the Committee's request, the Veterans' Administration has conducted a landmark study of jobs held by mentally restored veterans. The entire field of mental health is awaiting publication of this document in early 1962.

The subject of jobs for the mentally handicapped has been treated in depth at the President's Committee annual meeting in 1961; will be treated again at the annual meeting in 1962; is being given full treatment at regional meetings. The annual meetings and regional meetings bring together professional workers in the fields of rehabilitation and employment of the handicapped; employers; union officials; officials of mass media, and other "opinionmakers."

By bringing the message of job equality for the mentally handicapped to these persons, we go a long way in reaching our goals.

Three special reports on various phases of job equality for the mentally handicapped have been prepared by the Committee; more are planned. Also in the planning stage are TV filmed spot announcements; a TV panel discussion; and a TV feature film.

A major accomplishment of the current fiscal year was the release on September 6 of a White House statement signed by the President titled "Policy for Employment of the Physically Handicapped.' This was directed to heads of all departments and agencies and has been most helpful. I should like a copy of the brief statement appended to my remarks.

It would take a longer time than we have available here today to recount the full extent of the cooperation given the Committee by Governors of the States, by the member departments and agencies of our Advisory Council, as well as by dozens of other agencies who have assisted with promotional and informational efforts both here and in the field. The stepped-up Government-wide interest in the Coordinator program of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, as well as the increased involvement of the Commission under Chairman John Macy in many

fields is most significant. Another major breakthrough is the Veterans' Admininstration study, begun under Sumner Whittier and continued under General Gleason, of the successful work experiences of a sizeable sample of mentally restored disabled veterans.

The Bureau of Employment Security of the Labor Department last month issued a new program letter to the field reemphasizing the importance of stepped-up service to the handicapped. The Veterans Employment Service, also, is working very closely with our Committee on Disabled Veterans. We are working on a day-to-day basis with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation on several projects, including a major emphasis on rehabilitation at our 1962 annual meeting. Commerce is providing increased cooperation in the international trade fairs field. It shall be my pleasure to share with Appropriations Committee members and their staffs a report shortly of the December meeting of our Advisory Council at which time significant progress reports were submitted, reports of action taken and action promised.

In mentioning the international trade fairs promotion, I am reminded of the tremendously increased involvement in international activities by the Committee staff and by cooperating local and State committees, the latest being a possible project submitted to us by the Department of State which would involve wives of ambassadors in voluntary efforts for the handicapped all over the world.

It seems that one of our finest exports has been the work we have done with and for the handicapped in our own country and the people-to-people contacts have made overseas with persons interested in knowing more about this work. It is our intention to continue to do all that we can in this field, not cly in cooperation with the Federal agencies, but also with such private efforts as the International Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, the People-toPeople Committee for the Handicapped, the Goodwill Industries and National Rehabilitation Association International Committees and the international comittee of the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security. With your continued understanding support and encouragement, we shall press forward on all the old established fronts, while breaking trail in the new areas mentioned in this statement.

[Immediate release, Feb. 14, 1962. Office of the White House Press Secretary]

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10994

THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and in order to provide for the carrying out of the provisions of the Joint Resolution approved July 11, 1949, ch. 302, 63 Stat. 409, as amended, and the provisions of section 8 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. 38), it is ordered as follows:

(a)

SECTION 1. Establishment and composition of the President's Committee. There is hereby established the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped (hereinafter referred to as the Committee or as the President's Committee).

(b) The Committee shall be composed of a Chairman and not more than three Vice Chairmen, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the President, and of so many other members as may be appointed thereto from time to time by the Chairman of the President's Committee upon the advice of the Executive Committee (hereinafter provided for) from among persons (including representatives of organizations) who can contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Committee. Members appointed by the Chairman shall be appointed for a term of three years and may be reappointed. The Chairman of the President's Committee, with the approval of the Executive Committee, may at any time terminate the service of any member of the President's Committee, except any member appointed by the President.

(e) The Chairman of the President's Committee, upon the advice of the Executive Committee, may designate as, or invite to be, associate members of the President's Committee (1) any heads of Federal departments and agencies which have responsibility for rehabilitation services or promotional activities touching the field of interest of the Committee or which are leading utilizers of handicapped personnel, (2) Governors of States and possessions, and (3) representatives of such heads or Governors.

(d) Representatives of industry, labor, and public and private agencies may be invited to attend meetings of the Committee.

SECTION 2. Functions of the Committee. The President's Committee sl facilitate the development of maximum employment opportunities for physically and mentally handicapped. To this end, the Committee shall sup information to employers, conduct a program of public education, and enlist aid and cooperation of Federal officials, State officials, Governors' Committe local committees, professional trade groups, and organized labor. In carry out the functions vested in it by section 8 of the Vocational Rehabilitation A as amended, the Committee shall work closely with the Department of Lab Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Veterans' Administrati State employment-security agencies, and State vocational-rehabilitation agenc SECTION 3. Executive Committee. (a) There is hereby established the Execut Committee of the President's Committee on Employment of the Hanideapp The Executive Committee shall be composed of the Chairman of the Presiden Committee, who shall also be the Chairman of the Executive Committee, t Vice Chairmen of the President's Committee, and so many additional memb as will provide an Executive Committee of not less than fifteen and not me than fifty members. The said additional members shall be appointed annua by the Chairman of the President's Committee, from among the members the President's Committee, or otherwise. The Chairman of the Presiden Committee may at any time terminate the service of any member of the Execut Committee.

(b) The Executive Committee shall advise and assist the Chairman of 1 President's Committee in the conduct of the business of the President's Co mittee and, as authorized by the President's Committee or the Chairman ther (with due regard for the responsibilities of other Federal agencies), shall stu the problems of the handicapped in obtaining and retaining suitable employme invite authorities in the various professional, technical, and other pertine fields to assist in the exploration of those problems, and review and devel plans and projects for promoting the employment of the handicapped.

SECTION 4. Advisory Council. There is hereby established the Adviso Council on Employment of the Handicapped, which shall advise the Presiden Committee with respect to the responsibilities of the Committee. The Coun shall be composed of the Chairman of the President's Committee, who shall a be the Chairman of the Council, and of the following-named officers, or th respective alternates: the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commer the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, t Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, and the Chairman of the United Stat Civil Service Commission.

SECTION 5. Administrative and incidental matters. (a) The President's Cor mittee, the Executive Committee, and the Advisory Council shall each meet the call of the Chairman of the President's Committee at a time and place desi nated by him. In the case of the President's Committee and the Executive Cor mittee, the Chairman shall call at least one meeting and two meetings, respectivel to be held during each calendar year.

(b) In the absence of designation by the President, the Chairman of th President's Committee may from time to time designate a Vice Chairman of th President's Committee to be one or more of the following-named in the absend of the Chairman: Acting Chairman of the President's Committee, Acting Chai man of the Executive Committee, and Acting Chairman of the Advisory Counci The Chairman of the President's Committee shall from time to time assign othe duties to the Vice Chairmen thereof.

(c) The Chairman of the President's Committee shall on behalf of the Presider direct the Committee and its functions.

(d) The Chairman may from time to time prescribe such necessary rules, pro cedures, and policies relating to the President's Committee, the Executive Com mittee, and the Advisory Council, and their affairs, as are not inconsistent wit law or with the provisions of this order.

(e) All members (including the Chairman and Vice Chairmen) of the President' Committee, the Executive Committee, and the Advisory Council shall serve without compensation. The Chairman and the Vice Chairmen of the President': Committee may receive transportation and per diem allowances as authorized by law for persons serving without compensation.