Addresses by President and Mrs. Johnson at Fundraising Dinner of Democratic Club of Cook County, Ill.

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. PAUL H. DOUGLAS

OF ILLINOIS

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. DOUGLAS. Mr. President, the largest Democratic dinner in the history of Illinois and, I believe, in the history of the country, was held last week in Chicago. No fewer than 6,500 persons were present, and they welcomed President and Mrs. Johnson with great enthusiasm.

I ask unanimous consent that the remarks of Mrs. Johnson and of President Johnson be printed in the Appendix of the RECORD.

There being no objection, the addresses were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. JOHNSON TO FUNDRAISING DINNER OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF COOK COUNTY, MCCORMICK PLACE, CHICAGO, ILL.

Mrs. LYNDON B. JOHNSON. Mr. Mayor, Governor Kerner, Senator Douglas, when I first received your invitation, my husband suggested that I might come out and speak in his place. But I told him I thought that was carrying the policy of women in government too far.

It is always good to come to town where Mayor Daley is host. Starting out on this trip, I was apprehensive we might be hit by lightning, for reasons you can understand. But Lyndon said, "Don't worry. I have telephoned Dick Daley and he has taken care of it." I am glad to be here because Mayor Daley is one of the warmest and closest friends we have ever had, and I certainly do not need to tell you here in Chicago he is one of the best friends the people of this country have ever had.

There are other members of my family who are better at making speeches than I am, but I hope you will not mind. I hope my husband will not mind, if I tell you some of the things he might find it hard to say.

We

Any leader who has been in public life for 30 years tries to look down the decades to the future of his country. Some of the things which are closest to his heart are that every child in this country should be able to use all the abilities God gave him. want him to grow up with a fair chance to provide a decent life for his family and for his children. In a country as free and rich as America, no one should be held back because he was born in a poor family or in a poor neighborhood, or because of the color of his skin.

This is not an idea which belongs to any one party or to any one part of the country. It is as true and important here in your great city as it is on the plains of Texas. It is simply what the America you and I believe in, the America Lyndon believes in, is all about.

I am glad to be here just to let you know and to let Senator DOUGLAS know, and to let

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all of the delegation of the State know, how grateful my husband is for your support in his effort to build that kind of America. Thank you.

The PRESIDENT. Mayor Daley, Senator Douglas, Mayor and Mrs. Daley, Governor and Mrs. Kerner, my dear friend Bill Dawson, distinguished guests at the head table, my fellow Americans, a funny thing happened to me on the way out to Chicago. I passed Dick Nixon coming back from Vietnam, and Barry Goldwater, and Nelson Rockefeller going out. Harold Stassen was trying to hitchhike a ride, and Bill Scranton insisted that he doesn't plan to go, but if he changes his mind, he will just walk. I see in the papers that Barry and Rocky have decided to cut down on their appearances in California. This reminded me of the fellow down in Texas who said to his friend, "Earl, I am thinking of running for sheriff against Uncle Jim Wilson. What do you think?"

"Well," said his friend, "It depends on which one of you see the most people." "That is what I figure," said his friend. "If you see the most, Uncle Jim will win. If he sees the most, you will win."

A lot of Republicans have not decided who they want to be their nominee. One old man was asked how he was going to vote in the California primary. He said, "Well, I haven't decided yet, but I will tell you this: When I do make up my mind, I am going to be awfully bitter." And I think that is the dilemma that the Republicans face.

On the way out here today, I read where I would be coming into Goldwater country tonight. I read that in one of your newspapers. I find that pretty hard to believe. As I look around and see Mayor Daley and Otto Kerner, who drew more votes unopposed in the Democrate primary than two of the most formidable Republicans combined can draw in that primary, and I see out here tonight the Democrats who turn out here in Cook County for the largest Democratic dinner that I have ever attended, I know, I think I know, and I think you know, this is Democratic country. It is Democratic country tonight, and it is going to be Democratic country come November.

Since last November, this Nation has watched the Democratic Party at every level face the most exacting tests that any party has ever faced in our times. From city hall to the Halls of Congress, from the State house to the White House, the people have seen Democrats hold this Nation on a sure and steady course. They have seen this party keep faith with the young warrior who led us so valiantly and who was taken from us so prematurely, the beloved late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I believe that when November comes, the people will express their approval with a decisive victory at all levels for the party of all the people. I believe that Chicago and the great State of Illinois will lead the way for the rest of the Nation.

It makes me feel mighty good to be here with you good people this evening. I want to pause just a moment to express my deepest gratitude and the gratitude of my family for the great sacrifice that each one of you have made, not only to buy a ticket to come here, but to come here and endure us all evening.

This is a memory that I shall not forget. This is a loyalty that I shall always treasure,

and this is a friendship that I will try to return.

It is good tonight to be here with all of you and, particularly, with my old and trusted friend, Dick Daley. I don't ordinarily like to repeat what my wife has said, but I am going to, by saying that he is one of the great mayors of our land, and one of the great Americans of all time.

I am glad to come before this audience to say, "Thank you for your great Democratic Governor, for the great Democratic delegation that you have sent to Congress, led by that fighter for the people at all times, the senior Senator from this State, PAUL H. DOUGLAS, my good friend. I want you people of Chicago and Cook County to know that the people in this country have no better friends and my administration has no more loyal supporters than the Illinois delegation in the Congress that represents the Democratic Party.

There is an empty chair in this hall tonight, as BILL DAWSON reminded us, and an emptiness in all of our hearts, because our country lost one of its finest public servants and I lost one of my oldest friends when death took from us last week that great American, Tom O'Brien.

I never come to Chicago without thinking how great has been our past and how greater still can be our future, for the story of Chicago cannot be told in statistics alone, in charts which show an incredible growth from 4,470 people in 1840 to 3,550,404 in 1960, an explosion which in the last decade has made Chicago the third fastest growing city in absolute growth in all of America. Behind those statistics is the story of individual men and women, pioneers and builders, struggling for jobs and decent homes, driven by the dream of education for their children, longing for a chance to live out their days in freedom and peace. Brick by brick, street by street, building by building, neighborhood by neighborhood, these sturdy pioneer people built Chicago, and people like them built all America. So tonight it is more important to look ahead to where America can go than to spend any time looking back where America has been. We must not abandon our future with a hopeless shrug of the shoulder, saying that everything has been done which can be done, confessing that the new demands of America, the demands of our cities and our suburbs are beyond the pale of our help. There are those in this country who say "There is nothing we can do," or, worse still, "There is nothing we should do." So resigned and so committed, they lay the ax of indifference to the strong oaks of hope, to urban renewal, to low-rent public housing, to aid for public schools, to relief for our hospitals, to medical care for our aging, to air pollution control, to mass transportation assistance, and to a decent poverty program for all of our poor people. Every blow of their ax strikes not at the political agenda of a political party, but it strikes at the agenda of all of America's future.

So I say to you this is not the attitude that built the America we love. This is not the way to the America that we want to build, and it is not the philosophy of the Democratic Party that I have the honor to speak for.

Woodrow Wilson, a great Democrat, once said, "The success of a party means little unless it is being used by the Nation for a great purpose." And that purpose tonight is clear. We have been called upon to build

a great society of the highest order. We have been called upon-are you listening?to build a great society of the highest order, a society not just for today or tomorrow, but for three or four generations to come. And if the Democratic Party serves that purpose, we do not have to worry about success at the polls come November.

If we do not serve that purpose, all our worrying will not help us to win the people's allegiance, for we will not be worthy of their trust, or worthy of their votes.

So let us, as party and people, think not only of the next election, but let us think tonight and plan for the next generation.

Much depends on what we do to solve the problems of our great cities. For it was Aristotle that said "Men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life." Today, more than two-thirds of the American people live in metropolitan areas, but all of us know that too few of those people really live the good life. And all of us know, too, that as long as any Americans live in inadequate homes, and go to inadequate schools, and enjoy second-class citizenship for any reason, eat too little food, get too little work, breathe polluted air, play in cramped and crowded parks-as long as these conditions exist, the vindication of democracy is beyond us and the good life is just a mockery.

To some the indication of democacy in an urban nation is an unreal and impossible goal, for they have been numbed by the magnitude of the task. Only last week a man came to see me in the White House and said to me, "Nothing we do will help. The population explosion is submerging our cities in a sea of futility. The harder we work, the more there is to do."

I feel sorry for that man. I treat him with compassion. I feel as sorry for any American who has lost faith in the capacity of the American people. I feel sorry for the country, too, when even one citizen loses hope. For while we stand tonight on the very edge of a great society, timid dreams and faint resolve will never help us to achieve it. Almost 4 years ago a brilliant young Senator named John Kennedy came to Chicago and he talked about moving this country toward new goals, and he said, "There are 5 million homes in the United States, in the cities of this country, that lack plumbing of any kind. Fifteen million American families live in inadequate housing. The average social security benefit is less than $78 a month for someone who is retired and out of work, and he has to pay food, housing and medical care out of that pittance. Anyone who says there is nothing left to do, that all the things that had to be done were done by Truman or Roosevelt, then I think he was wrong. We in our time still have responsibilities left if we are going to build a stronger society."

What John F. Kennedy said in Chicago on the night of October 1, 1960, I repeat in the same city tonight, April 23, 1964, as the continuing pledge of the Democratic Party and this administration. We are going to build a great society, and we have just begun to fight.

Last night we demonstrated the strength and the substance of our democratic system. The railroad conflict was settled. The world saw and will long remember how reasonable and responsible men respond to challenge and to need, and to leadership. After almost 5 long and dreary years, the railroad men, the company management, the union leader

have attacked and demolished the inequalities that infect us, and the inadequacies that afflict us. We have attacked and we will continue to attack, the prejudice and the discrimination that give a Negro child only one-half as much chance of finishing high school; that give a Negro child only onethird as much chance of getting to college as other children born in this country; that give him on the average 7 years less to live. Yes, we are attacking and we will continue to attack not only discrimination, but we will attack the causes of unemployment which now sends 4 million Americans to look for relief instead of work.

Last month, I am proud to tell you, employment in this Nation rose by 172,000 jobs, and unemployment dropped from 5.7 percent a year ago to 5.4 percent.

And if the Democrats will stay behind me and the Republicans will help us just a teeny bit, our war on poverty will make another big dent in those unemployment figures.

We have attacked with three major education bills, and we will continue to attack, the demands of education. Every single year college youngsters in America increase at the rate of 300,000 a year, a rate equal to the entire enrollment of 60 new State colleges every year, Governor Kerner. I do not have to remind you that children whose education suffers from overcrowded classrooms, or suffers from inadequate teachers, can never gain back what they have once lost.

We cannot, in a good society in America, tolerate a second-class system of education anywhere.

We have attacked, and we will continue to attack, the need to preserve our natural resources. One of the great preservers of resources of this Nation of all time is that gray-haired man of wisdom who sits at this table tonight, but who constantly leads the fight to preserve our natural resources in the Senate of the United States, your own beloved PAUL DOUGLAS. He knows, and I know, and you know, that we need more parks and more beaches, and more playgrounds for our little children, more recreational facilities for all American families.

Last year, 94 million people used our public parks. This year the number will be 99 million people who will visit our public parks. More people have more time, thank God, to enjoy more of America's beauty than they have ever had before, and if we, God willing, have another Democratic administration, we are going to give them still more time to enJoy that beauty.

I remind you tonight that beauty is not inexhaustible and it does not automatically replenish itself. Every inch of our natural heritage is a resource which once lost cannot be recovered. My administration is determined that unborn generations will not be denied the privileges of enjoying their Nation's natural beauty.

Who is

We have attacked and we will continue to attack the needs of our aging citizens. Ten percent of our population tonight is over the age of 65. Every year that percentage is increasing. What is going to happen to these people, your mothers and fathers, your uncles and your cousins, and your aunts? going to help them live out their days in the dignity that they deserve, in the twilight of their career? Do we want to deny their hopes? Do we want to degrate their lives? This administration's plan for medical care for the aging asked the average worker for

won a great victory for free collective bargaining in the American way. And I was never prouder of America than I was last night. Last night proved the lively spirit of the democratic process, but it does not lessen our concern for other problems that confront us today, for the business of building the great society is undone until we

and $1 per month from his employer, and nothing from the Government. Surely our people to have this chance to contribute $24 a year for a period of 40 years that will be multiplied by the interest earnings by 3.75, that will ultimately provide each person with almost $4,000 to take care of his medical care after 65. It seems to me that in our way of

life we ought to have a chance to provide for people a decent life in their old age.

We have the manpower, we have the means, we have the money to do all that must be done to realize our greatest dreams. All we need now is the will. Let it never be said of the Democratic Party or of America that while the men of past had convictions, the men of today have only opinions. We have our convictions, we know what we want for America. We want an America committed not only to the defense of freedom for our own people, but to the extension of freedom to all people. We want an America that is willing to live in harmony with every other nation that respects human dignity and human liberty. We want an America that always keeps its guard up, but always has its hand out. We want an America that is seeking diligently the day "when nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more."

This week we took a specific step in that direction when we decided to reduce the production of fissionable material for atomic bombs. With that decision, we and the Soviet Union took one step back from the precipice. We will continue to search for new ways to build the common interest while, you may be sure, seeking all ways of preserving the national interest. We are going to go as far as is' prudent and as fast as is possible to bring peace to this troubled world. The America we want is an America where every citizen, whatever his race or religion, is treated with equal respect and enjoys equal opportunities to develop his capacity and to provide for the well being of his family. The America we want is an America where no home is unsafe or unsanitary, where children can play in parks and playgrounds, where every family can live in a decent home, in a decent neighborhood, where the water is clean, the air is pure, and the streets are safe at night, and where every man can worship God freely according to the dictates of his own conscience. This is the kind of America that we believe in, and this is the kind of America to which we are dedicated.

I have come here to Chicago tonight under the auspices and the invitation of your great mayor to ask your help, to ask the help of each of you to building that kind of an America, not only for our children, but for generations yet unborn. Thank you.

Hon. Thomas J. O'Brien

SPEECH OF

HON. HERMAN T. SCHNEEBELI

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 23, 1964

Mr. SCHNEEBELI. Mr. Speaker, Toм O'BRIEN was a man of outstanding integrity and loyalty. He was a dependable colleague whose word could be relied upon and who always deliver what he promised. It was these fine qualities of his that enabled him to serve with such distinction in his native county, State, and in the Congress. His public service covered a span of many years, which included 4 terms in the State Assembly of Illinois and a term as sheriff of Cook County in addition to the 14 terms for which he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was renominated in the Illinois primary for yet another term on the day that he passed away.

TOM O'BRIEN has been a longtime political leader of his party both in Chicago and in the House of Representatives. He was considered the leader of the Illinois democratic delegation for many years and was respected by Members on both sides of the aisle.

Tom was particularly helpful to me as a newcomer to both Congress and the Ways and Means Committee and as one who was seeking advice. My short friendship with him on the committee was most gratifying, and his suggestions and assistance were both constructive and helpful in my indoctrination.

TOM's many friends will miss his leadership and good judgment, and Illinois has lost a fine native son. I, too, have lost a kind and helpful friend, whose cheery smile I shall miss, and to whose family I extend my deepest sympathy in their sorrow.

Death of Parker McLauthlin Merrow of

New Hampshire

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. NORRIS COTTON

OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. COTTON. Mr. President, last week, New Hampshire suffered the loss of a distinguished citizen, Parker McLauthlin Merrow of Ossipee.

Publisher of a widely read weekly newspaper, judge of the municipal court of his home community, successful businessman, and recognized leader in civic affairs throughout the State, Parker Merrow enjoyed the respect and affection of the thousands who knew him.

One of the great tributes to his memory was paid by Paul Blanchard, publisher of a neighboring and, in a sense, competing weekly newspaper. Mr. Blanchard's poignant reflections accurately express the feelings of us all, and I ask unanimous consent that his editorial, entitled "Judge Parker Merrow," appearing in the North Conway (N.H.) Reporter for April 23, 1964, be printed in the Appendix of the RECORD.

There being no objection, the editorial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

JUDGE PARKER MERROW

A great friend of this community passed away last Saturday night and the lengthy shadows of sadness will linger for sometime. up and down this valley.

As editor and publisher of the Carroll County Independent and the Granite State News, Parker Merrow was loved because of his forthright homespun style. Indeed, it was refreshing to many who found escape from the pressures of the city. For those who lived around here, there was a feeling of sincere affection for this man, who was putting into words their inward emotions.

"Hank" was the name he used in signing his columns and Hank will ever be loved by more people than one can imagine.

Parker had a drive that was tireless right to the end of his days. There are those who believe he knew he was doing too much. There are those who undoubtedly urged him

to take it a little easier but this man just did not seem to know how. He would talk about it-in fact, at times it seemed as

though he had the vision and the urge to find some little place where the world could go by with his blessing and little work ... but the spirit to do, the will to accomplish and to bring about better things for the community he held so dear, were uppermost in his mind at all times.

Parker loved the mountains of New Hampshire with the deep and inviting forests. Likewise, the lure of the valley with the cool and tempting lakes, as well as the brooks that babbled a language all their own, sympathetic undoubtedly, to this man's musings, he held dear.

To his Nation, State, county, and township, his contributions were numerous and generous.

As Judge Parker Merrow, he sat in the

municipal court at Center Ossipee for 20 years. His decisions were considered fair and sagacious on the part of most folks who came before him but the philosophy which he was able to disseminate will be remem

bered far longer than any financial judgment imposed.

In service to his State of New Hampshire, Parker spent 2 years in the executive council during the governorship of Lane Dwinell. In this capacity he worked especially for better roads in this county with the full realization that the need was great. He also had time to hear the opinions of others in an effort to select that which had possibility for progess.

His counsel was sought by many and his acts of kindness can only be found in the record books which are kept in the Great Beyond.

Our words today are difficult to find and have but temporal duration. From the Holy Bible and the writing of St. Paul, however, we read:

"I have fought a good fight
I have finished my course
I have kept the faith."

No finer words could we write as we pay final tribute to Judge Parker Merrow. P. K. B.

Will Peace Ruin Business?

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, interest in the problem of converting our economy from military to civilian production has been heightened recently by the Defense Department announcements of cutbacks in our military spending at certain installations. Private industry will also be seriously affected as defense contract awards diminish and terminate. Many business firms have turned their attention to procedures that will ease the inevitable transition. Some of the lines of approach followed by a number of our largest contractors were outlined in a fine article by Associated Press business newswriter, Darden Chambliss, which appeared in the April 21, 1964, edition of the Lowell, Mass., Sun.

The dialog currently underway in private industry should be supplemented by governmental cooperation. This is the purpose of the more than 20 bills

which have been introduced to create a National Economic Conversion Commission. Under unanimous consent I include Mr. Chambliss' article in the RECORD:

WILL PEACE RUIN BUSINESS

(EDITOR'S NOTE.-President Johnson has reported new efforts to ease international tensions. This brings to the fore the question how industry can adjust to defense cutbacks. An Associated Press business writer interviewed industry leaders across the country to find out their plans and what problems they foresee.)

(By Darden Chambliss)

NEW YORK-Announcement of Soviet and American cutbacks in nuclear production adds fresh impetus to a question that has lately commanded special attention:

How well is U.S. industry preparing for the day when the defense dollar stops coming?

President Johnson, in revealing the atomic cutbacks Monday at the annual Associated Press luncheon for newspaper publishers, emphasized "this is not disarmament" but "it is a step forward."

There have been several previous hints of warming East-West relations, and the sensitive ears of U.S. business have recorded them carefully.

With about 1 of 10 jobs connected with defense, the subject is pertinent.

Recent cross-country interviews with business leaders found general confidence that they can handle fairly well any readjustment they consider reasonable to expect. A sudden drop to zero defense dollars would make things rough, they concede, but they don't think this will happen.

These comments chart four main avenues

companies may take. Each has its faults, businessmen say, but in combination they offer a fairly satisfactory answer to cutbacks.

One answer is to shift into different kinds of government business. Another is to diversify into established consumer products. Both courses are being followed already, with mixed success.

A third answer is to create new civilian products. Good, but hard to do. A fourth is to perform public works projects, such as solving air pollution or developing mass transit systems. Good too, these men say, but someone has to place the order.

Radio Corp. of America's scholarly president, Elmer Engstrom, notes that any successful company has had to learn long ago how to switch when markets change.

"Whatever happens in the way of disarmament," he says, "we wouldn't dare to put on the shelf the on-going research that has kept us in the forefront."

Some experts have estimated that the cost of an arms control inspection system would run up an annual bill in the first several years equaling, or even surpassing, current defense spending.

At Lockheed Corp. in Burbank, Calif., Vice President A. C. Kotchian sees a continuing need for conventional warfare equipment. His firm has leaned away from the Polaris missiles it is completing and is hitting harder its troop transport production. At the same time, Lockheed has burst into a future market with its A-11 superplane that President Johnson recently described.

Executives say the defense industry has become overcrowded and hotly competitive, and that further shrinkage in total orders could make the going rough in the areas that remain.

"The defense dollar is a hard buck to make," says Boeing Co. President William Allen.

Therefore, many businesses are looking to a second possibility, such as the one being pursued by San Diego's Fred Rohr of Rohr Corp., who tells of applying aircraft fabrication skills to making sandwich panel homes that can be assembled quickly and cheaply.

This kind of diversification is not a perfect answer either, other executives comment. Emerson Mead, president of SmithCorona Marchant Corp., notes it's not always easy to switch from making a precision product to making something that will sell well on the store shelf.

We never saw Miss Perry in court, and her trial appearances were rare if, indeed, she ever tried a case. But her male partners and colleagues benefited immeasurably from her thorough legal briefs based on penetrating research and from her guiding genius.

"So much of the conversion that people are talking about would mean going into activities already being carried on by someone else. It would be competing with companies already in business. That wouldn't contribute a thing."

The only kind of conversion that would work, he says, is new products. Other executives agree.

But Beckman and others question whether this transition would be quick or automatic.

Already, there are signs that civilian industry is not quick to snap up engineers and research people being shed by defense contractors. Nor is the demand for college graduates as intense as it was.

Some suggest that the Government may need to step in, one way or another, to quicken the flow of talent into civilian activities. Many executives, inside and outside defense work, seemed to support the idea of special tax provisions or other Government incentives to stimulate development of new products.

These executives also were receptive to Government participation in another area: public projects to convert seawater, eliminate air pollution, rebuild cities, expand schools, develop mass transportation systems.

"Miss Jim" Perry

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HON. STROM THURMOND

OF SOUTH CAROLINA

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, the Greenville News of Thursday, April 23, 1964, contains an editorial entitled "Miss Jim' Perry." This editorial pays fitting tribute to the accomplishments of an extraordinary member of the bar and citizen of South Carolina. "Miss Jim," as she was affectionately known, was, at the time of her death, a senior partner of one of the most respected and capable law firms in the South. She was the first lady to be admitted to the bar in South Carolina. Her contributions to the law and to numerous civil endeavors will never be forgotten.

I ask unanimous consent that this editorial be printed in the Appendix to the RECORD.

There being no objection, the editorial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

"MISS JIM" PERRY

Quite aside from her profession, the late Miss James M. Perry was a remarkable woman and a noble person. Because of her dedication to her family, her church and civic and public affairs generally, and her gifted service to all of mankind, and dumb animals, within her reach, she would have deserved the highest tributes.

But "Miss Jim" also was an extraordinary lawyer, achieving outstanding success in a field in which women are few and in which even fewer succeed on the scale that she did. Yet, living and working in a "man's world" she remained completely feminine.

In later years, "Miss Jim" specialized in and trusts. In this highly complicated area of the law she had few peers.

Born of unusual parents, both with fine backgrounds and interesting pursuits, Miss Perry's was an interesting life from her childhood. Her health permitted her to attend public schools only about 3 years, but through home study she was able to enter college at an early age and compiled an enviable record of scholarship.

Strangely enough, she took her law degree in California and practiced there before being admitted to the South Carolina bar, in which she became a leader.

She was one of the founders of the Greenville Humane Society and probably its most constant champion. She was a leader in business and professional women's groups and recently was honored as professional woman of the year.

Naturally, this strong willed woman had firm convictions and never swayed from them. Her highest duty and deepest devotion was to her church and family, but the law was her life and her service to mankind the measure of the effectiveness of all of these.

We never expect to meet another quite like her, but we shall treasure her memory as will thousands of others.

On Our Knees to the Soviet

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HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, April 27, 1964

Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, the people of this country do not realize it, but slowly and surely our Nation's foreign policy has shifted until it is now one of appeasement of the Communist.

Allan Keller, in the April 23 issue of the New York World Telegram, tells us what is lacking and why our historical "take no nonsense from anybody" policy has deteriorated to its present state, despite the denials of President Johnson: ON BENDED KNEE

(By Allan Keller)

It may have been overlooked during the excitement of the World's Fair opening, the cultural renaissance brought over by the Beatles and the Taylor-Burton farrago but I fear Americans are losing some of their sense of indignation. This worries me grievously since no people have long survived once they let their leaders or other nations push them around.

No physician will support this contention, but righteous indignation sharpens the brain, accelerates circulation, aids digestion, abets courage and uplifts the spirit. It is as American as clam chowder, baseball, or affection for an automobile. Or perhaps I should say it was that way until a few years ago.

Today, too many are too prone to take it on chin without protesting. This is true whether the affront involves international relations or a minor personal indignity.

Panama slaps us in the face, telling us when to fly the Stars and Stripes at full staff or half staff in the Canal Zone, and we turn the other cheek. Prince Norodom

Sihanouk, chief of state of Cambodia, spits in our eye and we don't even blink. The Russians knock two of our planes out of the sky over East Germany and our official reaction is to issue orders scolding pilots for straying over the Iron Curtain.

We're not just turning the other cheek. We're revolving like a gyroscope and a lot of new two-bit banana republics with nothing much to boast about except a flag and an empty treasury give us hell in the U.N, while accepting medical assistance, technical training, Peace Corps help, and gold infusions to revivify the aforementioned empty treasuries.

I was raised to admire men like Maj. Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion who refused to give in to the Germans in the First World War and Gen. Anthony McAuliffe who said "nuts" at Bastogne when the Nazi panzer commanders shortwaved messages saying his plight was hopeless. Some of the things George Patton did rubbed me the wrong way but I cheered his statement that he had never seen a Russian 10 feet tall.

A few months back their agricultural economy having fallen flat on its face, the Soviets asked us for surplus wheat to get them out of a really bad fix. How bad it was may not be known for years but there are many experts who say our wheat bolstered Khrushchev at a most critical point in his tightrope act as world leader of communism.

Disregarding the insults of the past, we started shipping Russia wheat as fast as we could get ships. While the bread of life was pouring into Soviet grain elevators they shot down our unarmed planes.

Did we stand up like men and say "Apologize, make restitution, and end such actions or you've seen the last of our wheat?" Like heck, we did. No one even became indignant. If I had been a Senator I would have called Dean Rusk before a committee to explain how our policy deteriorated from a strong one to a shameful blue funk. And I wouldn't have let him go out to eat until I got a satisfactory answer.

But the only time many Senators get indignant is when someone suggests they quit putting political garbage in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at $81 a page or when someone else asks "Is this taxpaid junket machinery really necessary?" to the Chilean Andes to study snow-making

There was a time when we walked lightly but carried a big stick. We were not the most powerful nation at the time, as we are now, but we had guts, both in Washington and the rest of the country. We've got the big stick-plenty of them, in fact, scattered around in concrete silos-but we're not even walking lightly. Most of the time we're on our knees.

Upholding Eternal Values in a Dying Civilization

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. A. WILLIS ROBERTSON

OF VIRGINIA

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President, the March 1964 supplementary section of the Canadian Intelligence Service carries a statement entitled "Upholding Eternal Values in a Dying Civilization," which has a direct bearing upon the pending bill which carries the misnomer of a civil rights bill. It is, in fact, a bill that would exchange for a mess of political pottage

the cherished constitutional right of trial by jury in criminal contempt proceedings. Every one knows that the dignity of man is taught in the Christian Bible which became the foundation for a system of laws in the Western World for the recognition of the fact that God was our Creator and endowed each one of us with certain inalienable rights.

The decisive influence in shaping Western civilization

Said the article in question

was Christianity. Christianity brought a new conception concerning the nature and the purpose of the individual. It established a new relationship between individuals, and between individuals and their institutions. In England, the system of common law was evolved under the direct inspiration of Christianity and Christian lawyers. The necessity to curb abuses of power by checks and balances stemmed from the concept of freedom and inalienable rights for the individual which were a part of his Godgiven heritage. Moral standards of behavior in society were developed. The great commandment concerning the necessity for individuals to love one another was translated into practical measures, and not manifest as a type of sickly sentimentality, of which there is plenty today amongst so many Christians who apparently cannot grasp that there is a great deal of difference between stating a law and the application of that

law.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the full statement on this subject may be printed in the Appendix of the RECORD.

There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

UPHOLDING ETERNAL VALUES IN A DYING

CIVILIZATION

Every civilization is the incarnation of certain values and principles. And the physical structure of a civilization continues to survive long after the destruction of faith in the values upon which it was erected. This fact tends to mask the reality of the present plight of the world. Tremendous technological advances mislead many into believing that man is now self-sufficient; that he can dispense with the type of faith which his forebears demonstrated as they worked over long centuries to give tangible, physical expression to the values which they held in many cases were more sacred than human life itself.

PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS ACCEPT ABSOLUTES

Nothing demonstratees more graphically the present sickness of Western civilization, than the charge of "extremism" leveled at any individual or group standing strongly for clearly defined principles. Support for absolutes of any description is derided, except in the field of the physical sciences, where, ironically enough, all successful achievements have been based upon the adoption of an "extreme" approach. Bridgebuilders make a thorough study of the laws and principles governing bridgebuilding. These laws are absolutes which must be applied or there is disaster. Those building airplanes have constantly sought to discover the principles governing planes flying higher and faster than ever before. Passengers using these planes are confident that those responsible for them are "extremists"; that they seek persistently to discover and to apply those truths governing safe flying.

Now, the absolutes which the physical scientist must discover and apply if he is to avert disaster, are but a part of the reality of the universe. The scientist does not invent these absolutes. He discovers them. But they are part of that total reality which

comes from the Creator, not from man. However, reality encompasses all aspects of man's life and activities, including his social activities. If these activities are to be successful, they must also be based upon absolutes. C. H. Douglas pointed out that the laws governing human associations are as capable of exact definition as are the rules governing bridgebuilding. There is a law of rightness running through the universe, and to suggest that one can partly ignore this law because support for this is "extremism," proves that the person making this suggestion is infected with the disease destroying civilization.

CHRISTIANITY AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION

The decisive influence in shaping Western civilization was Christianity. Christianity brought a new conception concerning the nature and the purpose of the individual. It established a new relationship between individuals, and between individuals and their institutions. In England, the system of common law was evolved under the direct inspiration of Christianity and Christian lawyers. The necessity to curb abuses of power by checks and balances stemmed from the concept of freedom and inalienable rights for the individual which were a part of his God-given heritage. Moral standards of behavior in society were developed. The great commandment concerning the necessity for individuals to love one another, was translated into practical measures, and not manifest as a type of sickly sentimentality, of which there is plenty today amongst so many Christians who apparently cannot grasp that there is a great deal of difference between stating a law and the application of that law.

It is ironic that the more decadent a civilization becomes, the further it ignores the values upon which it was built, the more difficult becomes the task of those who stand firmly for absolutes in values and principles. The dedicated opponent of communism, for example, particularly if he understands the true nature of communism, is today subject to smear and abuse because Western societies have rapidly become softened by the very philosophy of materialism and collectivism out of which grow policies, financial, economic, and political, which increasingly centralize power at the expense of the individual. Collectivism in all its various manifestations is anti-Christian because it drives the individual into bigger and more highly centralized groups over which he finds he can exercise no control. Thus his capacity

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for self-determination and self-development, a spiritual necessity, is progressively weakened. And the final result is a nation of people resigned to accept whatever fate is decided for them by someone else. They throw up their hands in despair and say that they can do nothing about their own destiny. Such people are spiritually dead. The most disturbing aspect of the tragedy of this growing spiritual death, is the failure of present Christian church leaders to give any effective lead against the materialistic policies driving so many to spiritual destruction.

TIME TO PONDER ON THE ETERNAL VALUES

However, all is far from lost. Small, but in recent years steadily increasing, groups of dedicated individuals throughout the Western World, particularly in the British Commonwealth and the United States of America, have been successfully upholding the values of their civilization, standing firm against those who smear them as "extremists" or worse, and by their example and educational work, exercising an influence which will be decisive concerning the question of whether a new civilization can be

brought to life. We regard our supporters as a part of that growing elite which can bring glorious victory out of threatened defeat.

Result of Questionnaire, 1964

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. HAROLD C. OSTERTAG

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Mr. OSTERTAG. Mr. Speaker, more than 6,700 residents of the 37th Congressional District of New York, which I am privileged to represent, responded to my questionnaire on national issues this year. Their replies were very informative and helpful. The answers to the questionnaires were recently tabulated and released, and under unanimous consent to have the results reprinted in the RECORD, I insert for the information of my colleagues in the Congress: