Variety Club, which is called "the heart of show business," owes its beginning to a lonely infant abandoned in a Pittsburgh, Pa., movie theater on Christmas Eve, 1929. Pinned to the baby's diaper was a note from It said there were her distraught mother. eight other children at home and with her husband unemployed she could no longer take care of her child. Having heard much of the goodness of show people she hoped and prayed that they would care for the baby. A group of local show people including John Harris, producer of Ice Capades, adopted the baby, and named her Catherine Variety Sheridan. She grew up under Variety sponsorship with her real identity known only by two people.

Since the first Variety Club was organized tents orin 1929, there have been 36 ganized in cities throughout the world. The Variety Club has over 10,000 members including people from all walks of life, and has as some of its members our President, Lyndon B. Johnson, ex-Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, as well as the late President John F. Kennedy. Prince Philip is an active member in England's Variety Club.

Variety clubs throughout the world, since being organized, have contributed over $85 million to various charitable organizations and Tent No. 11 here in Washington has contributed nearly $1 million to local charities which includes a $200,000 contribution to Children's Hospital for a research center. This is but one of the many contributions that Variety Club has made and continues to make in providing relief for the indigent, sick, and needy.

REMARKS BY DREW PEARSON AT THE HEART OF GOLD LUNCHEON, FEBRUARY 10, 1964 One of the great things about this country is that a man can come from nowhere and attain the highest office in the land. No one knew when Arthur Goldberg was born to a poor immigrant family, in an obscure part of Chicago, approximately half a century ago, that he would serve in the Cabinet of the United States and be elevated to the highest office in the land. No one dreamed of this when he carried shoeboxes as a messenger on the streetcars of Chicago to eke out his family's livelihood-there being no child labor act at that time.

No one realized this when Arthur was a brilliant student at the University of Chicago Law School, except perhaps his wife. Arthur used to say when he was a law student that some day he was going to be a Justice of the Supreme Court and his wife who knew him well had faith in him. She knew that some day he would achieve his ambition.

During the war others began to know Arthur but few knew of his great contribution to the war because it was strictly secret. He was a member of the OSS. I did not know of it until the end of the war when I met the head of the European Transport Workers, a Belgian, who told me in some detail how Arthur was organized an amazing intelligence network behind Nazi lines. He used Czech conductors, Swiss railroad men, bargemen from the River Rhine, to locate concentrations of Nazi railroad cars and barges which laid up during the daytime in order to travel at night. This was how American bombers received their orders, while in flight as to which targets they should bomb, as a result of Arthur Goldberg's amazing intelligence system, organized through European trade unions.

Gen. "Will Bill" Donovan, head of the OSS, paid tribute to the fact that Arthur's contribution was one of the greatest single factors in hastening the end of the war.

After the war Arthur became the Nation's leading labor attorney and delivered one of the most brilliant arguments against the use of the Taft-Hartley Act in the steel strike.

Later as Secretary of Labor he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act in the maritime strike. Labor did not blame him for this. Because labor knew that Arthur was a friend. They trusted him and knew he was putting the welfare of the public first. He was one Secretary of Labor who could appeal over the heads of the union leaders to the men because they knew and trusted him.

There was a time when my friend Arthur did me a great disservice. He stole my secretary. But I, whom am not always a tolerant man, have forgiven him.

Arthur and the late President were very close. There was a deep bond of understanding between them and a sense of humor. President Kennedy used to tell a story how Arthur when climbing in the Swiss Alps got lost. The Red Cross went out in a helicopter to search for him and the loudspeaker boomed out over the Swiss Alps "Arthur Goldberg, this is the Red Cross, Arthur Goldberg, this is the Red Cross."

There was no reply at first and finally a small voice came from below: "This is Goldberg, I gave through the office this year."

In September 1962 after Felix Frankfurter retired, President Kennedy called in his Secretary of Labor and in a sad voice offered him the vacancy on the Supreme Court. "It's like cuting off my arm to lose you," he said.

The man who told his wife that his greatest ambition was to make the Supreme Court replied, "I will be glad to stay on in the Labor Department, there will be other vacancies in the Court."

But the President, with perhaps tragic premonition said "I am not so sure. You will be here long after I am gone."

One of the greatest things the late President did was to leave us, in a position of judicial influence, a man with great understanding of the law, great understanding of human nature and a man with a heart of gold.

MacArthur: Epic of History

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. PHILIP J. PHILBIN

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, April 9, 1964

Mr. PHILBIN. Mr. Speaker, the career of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur is an epic of history; his passing a great, national and world loss that has brought profound sadness to people everywhere.

This great military leader, probably the greatest of our times, was superbly equipped for the critical tasks committed to him during his long, faithful, outstanding service as high-ranking officer of the American Army.

Of brilliant, mental capacities and preeminent intellectual attainments, leader of his class, and inspiring leader all his life, one can speak of him only in superlative terms.

"Duty, honor, country," the motto of his beloved West Point, found in him from early days until his last breath an adherent of undeviating loyalty.

Courage of most exalted form permeated every cell of his body.

Belief in God, and firm, unyielding faith in his Maker, his country and his own power to fulfill his noblest destiny marked his thought and action as he measured up so conspicuously to a suc

cession of desperate challenges on sea, land, and in the air, in war and peace, in the military, in government, and diplomacy that profoundly influenced for the good the security of the country and the free world and the well-being of the human race.

By common consensus, Douglas MacArthur was one of the greatest military leaders of history. Yet, he was not always a prophet in the eyes of his own Government.

The sad part of his career is that his discerning judgments and counsel which were shared abundantly by the Joint Chiefs and other military experts in the Nation were not accepted. If they had been followed, the whole course of history in the Far East and many other world areas would have been changed for the better.

For who among us in our official life was better qualified by virtue of long interest, study, and experience in Asian affairs, by virtue of his deep understanding of conditions and people in that part of the world, to counsel and act in the furtherance of a sound, constructive, safe American Asian policy, predicated on conclusive victory and the primary interests of our country and the free world, than this great American soldier, diplomat, and Government administrator.

To reinforce the doctrine that "there is no substitute for victory," and the truism that American boys should never have to fight a deadly enemy with their hands tied behind their backs, would have been a glorious exploit for this Nation which the great MacArthur could and would have used, always mindful of the men of his command, to win a decisive victory over world communism, to stabilize the peace of the Far East, and contain the Marxist conspiracy in that part of the world.

The great man who, with our Joint Chiefs, so strongly sponsored and exemplified the cause of victory has now gone to his eternal reward.

Let us hail and salute the great MacArthur epic of history.

Let us dwell upon his unsullied, stainless patriotism, love of God and country, his bitter sacrifices for his cause and his faith, his glorious career which makes him stand out in history as a great military strategist and resourceful, intrepid leader of arms and men.

Let us honor his memory as he honored our country.

In our profound gratitude let us always exalt and hold dear to us the precious truths by which he lived and

served.

Long will the people of this Nation remain grateful to this great American leader. And long will our Nation, the free world, and all striving to be free be inspired by his faith, his courage, and his unselfish, noble service to the sacred cause of security and liberty.

To gracious, devoted Mrs. MacArthur, her fine son, and family, I tender my heartfelt sympathy for their irreparable loss. May the good Lord comfort and sustain them in their deep sorrow, and give their dear loved one, our immortal General of the Army Douglas Mac

Arthur, eternal rest and peace in his heavenly home.

Hold high the gleaming banner of his faith. Keep in our hearts the glory of his deeds and the high purpose of his supreme dedication.

From the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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OF

HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER

OF KENTUCKY

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 9, 1964 Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I include herewith a memorandum opinion handed down by Judge Henry Meigs, of the Franklin Circuit Court, on March 16, affirming the Public Service Commission's issuance of a certificate to Big Rivers Rural Electric Cooperative Corp. to construct a generating plant and transmission facilities.

The opinion is as follows: KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO. ET AL., PLAINTIFF, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ET AL., DEFENDANTS-FRANKLIN CIRCuit Court, CIVIL ACTION NO. 64043-MEMORANDUM OPINION Many complex factors enter into a determination of public convenience and necessity such as to warrant construction and operation of electrical generation and transmission facilities. Certain general principles and guides are postulated by the legislature, but consideration of the facts, engineering, cost, and other technical data offered in support of an application is for the Public Service Commission and its technical staff. Review by the courts of a Commission order may be had only upon the evidence heard by the PSC, and the scope thereof is limited to a determination of whether or not the order is reasonable or lawful. Parties seeking to set aside such order must sustain the burden of showing clearly and convincingly that it is unreasonable or unlawful.

By its opinion and order the Commission made findings with respect to adequacy of existing service, duplication, costs, impact of the proposed facilities on the protesting utilities and the sufficiency of consumer market. From such findings and upon all the evidence the Commission concluded that public convenience and necessity required the granting of authority sought.

Although the Commission appears to have made a studied attempt to conform its findings to the order in the east Kentucky case, and the opinion of the court of appeals therein (252 S.W. 2d 885), there is some basis for the contention of protestants, that the facts upon which the ultimate conclusions were grounded are not specifically detailed. It cannot be said, however, that these considerations, as a matter of law, do not constitute a lawful or reasonable basis for the Commission's order, for the Commission's findings are substantially the same as those approved in K.U. v. P.S.C., 252 S.W. 2d 885 (east Kentucky case). Moreover, since the record abounds with substantial evidence supportive of the Commission's opinion we are not presented with a case in which "an agency has failed to disclose clearly the grounds upon which its decision is based" (L. & N. R.R. Co. v. Ky. R.R. Comm., 314 S.W. 2d 940).

It is significent that the following statement in brief of applicants at page 45

("After the presentation of K.U.'s and L.G. & H.'s case admitting the definite need for generating facilities, the question now is not whether it is needed, but rather who should be permitted to install it.") is annotated by counsel for K.U. "This is Big River's only argument." Together with the evidence, these statements impel the conclusion that this is the heart of the case, and bring it squarely within the ruling of the east Kentucky case where, as here, the expansion plan of K.U., based on anticipated load, is clear admission of the inadequacy of existing facilities. In addition to finding that Big Rivers application met this test of "inadequacy of existing service" the Commission found, upon substantial evidence, an inadequacy of existing service due "to indifference, poor management or disregard to the rights of consumers, persisting over such a period of time as to establish an

inability or unwillingness to render ade

quate service."

Although the evidence may-and obviously does give rise to honest difference of opinion as to the ultimate conclusions drawn therefrom, no part of the Commission's order and opinion is shown to be unreasonable or unlawful.

for defendants may tender a judgment herein sustaining the order of the Public Service Commission, subject to objections as to form.

In accordance with the foregoing counsel

This 16th day of March 1964.

Judge, Franklin Circuit Court.

A Letter of Conscience

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OF

HON. ABNER W. SIBAL

OF CONNECTICUT

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 9, 1964

Mr. SIBAL. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to place in the RECORD a copy of a representative letter I have received expressing grave concern over the plight of Jews living in the Soviet Union. The letter speaks for itself. Continuing reports from the Soviet Union are indeed profoundly disturbing. I believe the time is at hand when the Government should take official recognition of this question and express our concern in strong terms to the Soviet Union and in the United Nations. To quote from the letter, we "cannot in good conscience remain silent." The letter follows:

A LETTER OF CONSCIENCE Profoundly disturbed by authoritative reports of discriminatory and repressive treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, and affirming the universal moral principles of justice and brotherhood, I hereby join with other Americans in expressing grave concern. We appeal to Soviet authorities:

1. To extend to Jews in the Soviet Union the full measure of equality to which they are entitled under the Soviet constitution.

2. To eradicate every vestige of antiSemitism and to institute a vigorous campaign against all anti-Semitic manifestations.

3. To permit the creation of central religious institutions to serve Soviet Jewry, and to allow unrestricted worship and religious instruction for young and old.

4. To allow formal religios and cultural

bonds with Jewish communities abroad and to permit official exchange visits and religious pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

5. To reopen Jewish cultural institutions and permit the full expression of Jewish cultural life in Yiddish and Hebrew.

6. To grant permission on a humanitarian basis to those Jews who have been separated from their loved ones by the Nazi holocaust to rejoin their families in other lands.

7. To cease making Jews the scapegoat in the governmental campaign against economic crimes in the Soviet Union.

The essential dignity and equality of all men is an elementary religious and moral principle. So long as this principle is violated I cannot in good conscience remain silent. I therefore solemnly subscribe to this urgent appeal.

DAVID MAY,
MARY H. MAY,
Husband and Wife.

Oklahoma's Professional Rodeo Season Begins

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

" OF

HON. ED EDMONDSON

OF OKLAHOMA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 9, 1964

Mr.

EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, within the next few days, one of the most colorful, challenging, and popular professional sports in Oklahoma begins its 1964 season.

I am speaking of the professional rodeo season which begins with the Ardmore, Okla., rodeo championships on April 15, and concludes with the State Fair Rodeo at Oklahoma City, October 1.

Between those dates, 24 communities in Oklahoma will be hosts to the world's greatest professional cowboys who will compete in grueling events ranging from bronc and bull riding to steer wrestling and calf roping.

My personal invitation is extended today to each Member of this body and to the citizens you represent in Congress to attend one of these fine Oklahoma professional rodeos.

Americana unfolds at these spectacles reminiscent of the old West from the opening grand entry when cowboys and cowgirls of all ages parade their finest horses under saddle, flags, and pennants with bands blaring, until the final event when thoroughbred Oklahoma quarter horses compete in the traditional cutting horse contests.

In the second congressional district which I represent, comprising the 16 counties of northeastern Oklahoma, 5 communities have already announced dates for outstanding professional rodeos this year.

The first is the Miami, Okla., rodeo, May 21-23, to be followed by rodeos at Wagoner, June 4-6; Claremore, June 2427; Lenapah, July 1-4; and finally Vinita's famed Will Rogers Memorial Rodeo, August 19-23. Rodeos are also a feature attraction of the State Fair held at Muskogee each fall.

I heartily recommend that one of Oklahoma's rodeos be considered as a part.

the chute gate flies open, he is on his own; just man versus beast.

Oklahoma cowboys have led the way on the national level since the Rodeo Cowboy's

In 1934, while visiting in Vinita, Will Rogers promised, "You have a rodeo next year and I'll be back." Vinita held the rodeo the next year-but Will wasn't there;

You cannot beat a rodeo for actionpacked thrills and excitement and colorful pageantry. It is one professional sport that cannot be fixed-for no one has ever figured a way to make a deal with a wild Brahma bull, or a hard-bucking cow pony.

We in Oklahoma are proud of our rodeos and of our many rodeo champions. The Second Congressional District boasts six professional rodeo champions headed by world champion allaround cowboys, Jim Shoulders, of Henryetta, and Buck Rutherford, of Lenapah. Our other world champions include Shoat Webster, of Lenapah, Willard and Benny Combs, of Checotah, and talented newcomber, Barry Burk, of wagoner.

More than 270,000 spectators thrilled to the 24 rodeos in Oklahoma last year. This is more than the total number of persons who saw Oklahoma Sooner football games in Norman last fall.

So I urge that for a scenic and funfilled vacation this year, you should visit Oklahoma. You can enjoy one of our State's fine professional rodeos and afterward you can participate in water sports, fishing and other fun at one of Oklahoma's many beautiful and conveniently located lake resorts, which have helped to establish Oklahoma as the recreational heartland of the Southwest.

I also recommend for your reading

pleasure an article by State Senator Clem McSpadden on Oklahoma's professional rodeos which appeared in the current issue of Oklahoma Today. Clem has become nationally famous as a rodeo commentator and he has appeared many times on network television. He is a foremost authority on the rodeo in America. Clem McSpadden's article follows:

RODEO

(By Clem McSpadden) Rugged individualism is a much admired American trait. Every so often we hear someone lament that rugged individualism no longer exists, but there is at least one stronghold in which it still flourishes. When you see a professional cowboy compete in a rodeo sanctioned by the Rodeo Cowboy's Association you are seeing individualism in its purest form.

As a member of the Rodeo Cowboy's Association he is entitled to compete in any professional rodeo in the United States and Canada. He pays a cash entry fee for the right to compete, and is not subsidized in any way. He has no team doctor, or trainer to cure his aches, bruises, or broken bones. As Jim Shoulders once said, "I just wire myself up and keep going."

The bucking horse he draws doesn't know if he is a rookie or a seasoned pro. Nor does he know the color of the cowboy's skin or his religious affiliation. In a timed event, the stop watch runs the same for each contestant. A professional cowboy is his own boss. He belongs to a vanishing breed. He stands on his own feet and knows that when

started in 1945. They have won 41 world's championships. Jim Shoulders leads the way with a total of 16 titles and an unprecedented 5 all-around championships. The dean of Oklahoma cowboys, Everett Shaw, is next in line with 6 steer roping titles, the most any man has ever won. He has been among the top money winners in this event for 14 of the past 18 years.

Shoat Webster has 4 steer roping titles to his credit. He and the late Bob Crosby are the only men ever to win the all-around title at the Pendleton Roundup for 3 consecutive years. Clark McEntire and Todd Whatley have each won 3 world's cham

pionships.

Freckles Brown, perhaps the most popular of all champions, astounded the rodeo world in 1962 by winning the bull riding title at the tender age of 40. After cinching the title Freckles wound up second best with a

Brahma Bull at a Portland rodeo and broke his neck. In traction for a month, then a full length cast for 3 more months, he is back in the thick of things now, pulling the loose rope on the hump backs.

Tom Nesmith, all-around champion in 1962, is the first timed-event man since 1941 to turn the trick. The Combs brothers, Willard and Benny, are the only brothers in the history of rodeo who have both won steer wrestling titles. Ike Rude, steer roping winner of 10 years ago, was 64 years old when he was crowned, the oldest cowboy ever to win a world's championship.

Iron man Buck Rutherford, almost killed

in a car wreck several years ago, refused to cialists, he came on to join Shoulders and quit. Against the advice of medical speWhatley as a world champion all-around cowboy.

The backbone of any sport is the seasoned veteran, like rodeo's Bob Wegner. Three times he has been runnerup for bull riding

honors, but had the misfortune to peak just when Jim Shoulders was riding his best. The Federson brothers, Don and Bill, both topflight contenders in steer wrestling and bronc riding, have been elected by fellow contestants to serve on the Radio Corporation of America's board of directors. Pat Scudder, who at one time or another has competed in and won every major event, now serves as television coordinator for the Radio Corporation of America. Tater Decker and Duane Hennigh are versatile hands. The most talented newcomer in many years is Barry Burk. As a teenager he was the American Junior Rodeo Association all-around champ five times. In 1963, in his rookie professional year, he was among the top 15 steer wrestlers and qualified for the national finals.

In 1963 there were 24 professional rodeos in Oklahoma plus the national finals steer roping at Pawhuska. The sponsors of these rodeos put up more than $76,500 prize money, which the contestants' entry fees swell to a total of more than $165,000. More than 270,000 fans attended these rodeos, a total greater than the number of fans who saw big red football at Owen Stadium.

Lenapah, in Nowata County, has its population multiplied 15 times for each of the four performances of their Fourth of July Rodeo. Hinton produces the oldest continuous professional rodeo in Oklahoma. One of our most colorful rodeos is the annual State prison rodeo at McAlester, where the prisoners compete in the riding events. Professional cowboys compete in the timed events at the prison rodeo and you, as a spectator, are locked behind the prison walls while you watch the performance.

killed in the plane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska. It is for this reason that Vinita's annual rodeo is named the Will Rogers Memorial Rodeo.

Oklahoma's largest city holds two rodeos each year; the Jaycee International in June and the State Fair Rodeo in September. Tulsa's Johnny Lee Wills Stampede is a big and exciting rodeo. But regardless whether the site is a town of 200 or a metropolitan center of half a million, the action is great.

Taking H.R. 6196 From the Speakers Table and Agreeing to Senate Amendments

SPEECH

OF

HON. HAROLD D. COOLEY

OF NORTH CAROLINA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, April 8, 1964

Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Speaker, when this bill was before the Senate the managers of the bill interpreted the term "raw cotton" as it is used in section 101 with respect to inventory payments as applying equally to all inventories of spinnable raw cotton including those grades known as cotton comber noils and card strips. I have been asked whether that interpretation is correct inasmuch as the language in this regard is the same as that contained in the bill when it passed the House. There is no question about the correctness of that interpretation and this section relative to inventory payments applies to cotton comber noils and card strips in the same manner as any other raw cotton.

Mr. Speaker, at this point I should also like to set the RECORD straight as to the general payments to be made under this legislation to enable American mills to buy American cotton at the same price that American cotton is made available to foreign mills.

There have been charges made that this measure is a mill subsidy.

This is not a mill subsidy.

After inventory adjustments are taken care of the mills receive nothing except the right to buy cotton in the same way and at the same prices for which cotton is sold for export. This will be accomplished through payment-in-kind certificates which will be issued to persons engaged in the marketing of cotton.

This will protect producer prices, permit U.S. mills to buy cotton at the prices at which it is sold for export, and keep cotton moving in the normal channels of trade.

I repeat, this program is not a mill subsidy. It merely puts American mills in the same position as buyers for export.

Mr. Speaker, the Durham (N.C.) Sun on April 1 published an editorial entitled "Mill Subsidy." I shall read this editorial into the RECORD.

The editorial follows: