HON. CHET HOLIFIELD Wishes to All Who Have Made This Ceremony Children and Adults Alike That Will Be at Least of CALIFORNIA Possible

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EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS John Philip Sousa Birthplace Is Marked where that music is played. It will also give park and playground areas. In fact, already continuing evidence of the initiative and scarce recreation facilities, particularly for community spirit of the Capitol Hill Restora children, have been reduced due to freeway EXTENSION OF REMARKS tion Society and its members, including construction. I hope that all of you will OF Messrs. R. C. and J.B. King. I certainly am urge appropriation of the funds necessary to delighted to extend my thanks and good provide this area with the amenities for its HON. CHET HOLIFIELD wishes to all who have made this ceremony children and adults alike that will be at least OF CALIFORNIA possible. equal to the level of the rest of the city. This house, since John Philip Sousa was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES However, that is a digression. The Hill born in it 110 years ago, has certainly seen does have its proud history. It has had its Wednesday, July 22, 1964 many changes. I lay no claim to be a his full share, and more, of the famous residents torian, but there must be few people indeed and residences of Washington. It has advan Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, it is who can live and work in Washington with tages of location. And, most important of highly fitting that the people of our Na out becoming interested in the history which all, it has momentum. This ceremony is evi tion's Capital continue to lead the way enriches every nook and cranny of this city. dence that the momentum is continuing. It in appropriately restoring and designat This area in which we now stand, as many is also evidence that its residents appreciate ing places of significant historical inter of you know, was a very important part of their stewardship of its historic past, and of est. Among the most active of Wash the original L'Enfant plan-in fact, he the memory of men, like John Philip Sousa, ington organizations working tirelessly planned it as the major residential area of who lived here. toward this goal is the Capitol Hill Res Washington. East Capitol Street was L'En Mr. BOSWELL. It is most appropriate that fant's primary entrance to the city. Unfor we have with us today Miss Elsie Carper, toration Society. tunately, land speculators tried to take ad president of the Women's National Press On June 27, 1964, this society-with vantage of his plans. Anticipating a rush of Club and for many years a Washington the cooperation of the Washington Post purchasers, speculators priced the land so Post congressional reporter on District of and the U.S. Marine Band--sponsored high that people refused to buy, and turned Columbia affairs. Miss Carper. ceremonies marking the house at 636 G toward the northwest section instead. For many years the only streets which were REMARKS OF ELSIE CARPER Street SE., as the birthplace of John more than a line on a map were Maryland Miss CARPER. I am most pleased to repre Philip Sousa. To make the historical Avenue, which followed the old post road to sent the Washington Post on this occasion. notes concerning the "March King" the northeast, and East Capitol Street itself. I was born and brought up on Capitol Hill available to our colleagues and other in Even 50 years after L'Enfant, when Sousa so for me this ls a homecoming. terested persons, I offer the following was born, the area east of here and north of Washington has many famous sons but remarks spoken at this ceremony for Pennsylvania Avenue was almost entirely none who has brought so much pleasure as the RECORD: open fields. John Philip Sousa. The Washington Post By the time Sousa was old enough to care, has a great affection for him. He made us REMARKS OF H. CURLEY BOSWELL the development of this area-then known famous by writing the "Washington Post Mr. BOSWELL. I want to thank all you as Navy Yard Hill-had begun to get under March" long before the newspaper achieved good people for being here today and joining way. Philadelphia Row, that wonderful se eminence through its news columns and with us to do honor to John Philip Sousa ries of 16 3-story row houses on 11th Street editorials. a famous American whose birth and early SE., brought attention to its residential pos It was a family occasion, much as this one, life we associate with Capitol Hill. sibilities. The a.rea was also famous for that inspired Sousa to write the "Washington We have some very distinguished guests having one of the best schools in the city Post March." The dedication of this plaque with us today. May I introduce to you Mrs. Wallach School, which was constructed in today comes almost on the 75th anniversary Helen Sousa Abert, of New York City, daugh 1864 on the site of the present Hine Junior of the first performance of this stirring ter of John Philip Sousa; Mr. and Mrs. High. march. James L. Dixon. Mr. Dixon ls cochairman Sousa, himself, first went to a private The Washington Post had sponsored an of the John Philip Sousa Memorial, Inc.; school on 7th Street, and then, in 1863, en essay contest among schoolchildren and the seated are members of the John Philip Sousa rolled in public schools. So far as formal Marine Band was to play at the awards cere family: Mrs. James H. Pugh, Mr. and Mrs. academic education is concerned, I suppose mony on the Smithsonian grounds. The J. Hunter Pugh, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Geiger, today we would call him a dropout. Not publisher of the Washington Post met Sousa Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Varela and their so, however, with that part of his education on the street and asked him to write a two sons, Arthur, Jr., and Robert, and with for which we have most reason to be grateful. special march for the event. We don't know them ls their niece, Miss Betsy Ann Boyn At age 7, he was a student in John Esputa's how long it took Sousa but the "Washing ton, of Atherton, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. conservatory of music. At age 10, he was ton Post March" was the result. John P. S. Pugh. playing the violin with the Marine Band. No one recalls who made the speeches The following telegram has been received At age 13, he was a member of the band. that day but the march will never be for from John Philip Sousa III: Before he was 20 he, too, was teaching music gotten as long as there are bands to play it. on Capitol Hill. NEW YORK, N.Y. It became an overnight success. Dance H. CURLEY BOSWELL, Capitol Hill does not have a Wallach School bands took up the music for a daring new Executive Vice President, Capitol Hill Res today-a school so superior as to be an at dance, the two-step, and in Europe the two toration Society, Washington, D.C.: traction to prospective residents. Unfortu step became known as Washington Posts. Deeply regret I am unable join the mem nately, quite the opposite is true. There are no schools still in use which Sousa might Two and a half years ago the Post tried bers of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society to pay back some of the debt of gratitude it at the ceremony marking the birthplace of have attended 100 years ago, but there are my grandfather, John Philip Sousa. My some that come close. Hine Junior High, owes to Sousa. It dedicated in his honor a which stands on the Wallach School site, room in the Washington Post Building that family and I can only express our gratitude ls for community meetings and is in use al that your organization has taken this means dates back in its oldest part to 1887. Brent of honoring our grandfather's memory and Elementary stands essentially as it was con most every night. A spotlight shines on a his achievements. We thank you and wish structed in 1883--81 years ago. Only three life-sized portrait of the magnificently you every success in the good and important new schools have been built in this bearded march king in the scarlet uniform work you are doing on historic Capitol Hlll. area south of East Capitol Street since of a Marine Corps bandsman. JOHN p. SOUSA, III. 1945. Hine, of course, is finally being re On that occasion Mrs. Helen Sousa Abert placed, and will be open for business in Sep recalled an incident told by Sousa in his Several of our honored guests will address biography, "Marching Along." you briefly. First, I will introduce Mr. tember 1965, although it will be several months later before the old building can be While traveling in Venice, he saw the mu Charles Horsky, Presidential Adviser for Na sic for the "Washington Post March" in a tional Capital Affairs. Mr. Horsky. torn down and the playground rehabilitated. The new Gibbs Elementary School, at 18th shop window. "Is that a good composer?" he REMARKS OF CHARLES A. HORSKY and E, ought also to be in being by the end asked. The shopkeeper replied "He is one Mr. HORSKY. Mr. Boswell, Mrs. Abert, Con of 1965. of our best Italian composers." gressman Brooks, Miss Carper, ladies and Capitol Hill, in fact, is a prime example of So the music of the Capitol H111 boy be gentlemen, that a plaque should mark the the starvation diet to which capital con, came known all over the world. birthplace of John Philip Sousa is highly struction programs in the District have been It has been reported that when Sousa's appropriate. It will testify down through subject for so many years. It needs more band paraded down Washington streets fn the years that John Philip Sousa continues schools, because all of them are overcrowded. the 1880's and 1890's, it was followed by an to live in the hearts of Washingtonians, of It needs modern schools; 80-year-old build army of small enchanted boys. The boys all Americans, and indeed of people every- ings should not be tolerated. It needs more were followed by businessmen and the busi- 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 16671 nessmen by Congressmen. All these ingredi ing that time and became so well known that Originally the main floor had a front and ents are here today. a music journal, published in England, gave back parlor, with a room on the back sep May I thank you for the Washington Post him the title of "March King;" comparing arated by a hallway with stairs leading to for asking that we be represented. him to Strauss, the "Waltz King." · two bedrooms and bath. · Mr. BoswELL. And now I want to introduce "The Stars and Stripes Forever" probably The ground floor served as the kitchen, din Congressman JACK BROOKS, who will address is his most popular march, but I don't be ing and furnace rooms. us next and present the plaque commemo lieve there is a single American who does not The main staircase, which had been moved rating the birthplace of John Philip Sousa. recognize the strains of "El Capitan," or to the front of the house when converted into three rental units, has now been placed REMARKS OF CONGRESSMAN JACK BROOKS "High School Cadets," "Semper Fidelis," "The Thunderer," and the famed "Washing back in its original location. The two par Mr. BROOKS. Friends and neighbors here on ton Post." Sousa's mark on Atnerica is in lors have been consolidated into a large Capitol Hill, I am very pleased and honored delible. drawing room with a single fireplace. An to have an opportunity to participate in this In taking measure of the man we may say: Adams mantle was obtained and installed. ceremony marking the birthplace of John He was a patriotic man. Born of immi A plaster cornice of the Federal period as Philip Sousa. grant parents-a Portuguese father and a been reproduced for the ceiling of the draw It was 110 years ago that he was born in Bavarian mother, who had made their ways ing room. this house-on November 6, 1854. He lived My brother and I went to a great deal of to the New World--Sousa had a strong sense effort to obtain such items as pin-grained a full and eventful life for 78 years. He of identification with America and its demo conducted bands for Presidents and kings and flooring, paneled doors and door trim, as well cratic institutions. as old brass hardware, paneling, and other dignitaries the world over. His music lives He was a creative man. His musical tal on as a part of the American heritage. items. We wanted to recapture as much of ents were revealed at an early age and were the Sousa era as possible. Our countrymen will always thrill to the exercised throughout his long career. He stirring cadences. It was once said that even This circular staircase is one of our de composed more than 100 marches, 12 light signs, and we employed the lyre as symbolic a peglegged man could keep step with a operas and many songs. He even wrote three Sousa march. . of Sousa's vast contribution to American novels: one of which-"The Fifth String" music. In this neighborhood, John Philip Sousa was a bestseller in its .day, probably due as played as a child, went to school, dreamed I believe that with each passing year it much to the name of the author as to its becomes more and more important for groups the dreams of youth, suffered more than an literary merit. . ordinary share of physical ailments, and such as the Restoration Society, as well as He was a versatile man. For all h~s great learned to play the violin and other instru individuals, to continue their efforts with love of music and his lifelong preoccupation even greater determination and enthusiasm ments. He was hardly in his teens when he with it, he could take time off to hunt, fish, · was in demand for solo concerts and Satur so that our historic points of interest can be play golf, and ride horseback. His ab111ty saved for posterity. day night dance bands. at trapshooting, I suspect, owed as much We associate his name and fame with the Too often, in our zeal for modernization to his boyhood quail hunting on the banks and change, there are those who thought Marine Band-the oldest musical organiza of the Anacostia as to his rifle practice in the tion in the country, which had its origin in lessly and sometimes wantonly, would erase Marine Corps. In a contest once held in forever our historic landmarks. Yet, by join the Fife-and-Drum Corps organized by the Georgia, Sousa led the field of professional Continental Congress for the recruiting of ing together and working for the preservation and amateur trapshooters, breaking 98 out of historic places, we have it within our power marines in 1'775. John Ph111p was only 13 of 100 clay pigeons. when a passing circus band caught his at to keep the best of the past here on Capitol He was an understanding and generous Hill. tention and almost enticed him to run away. man. Sousa always was ready to help his It was then that his father took him by the I hope that this simple ceremony, honor associates. He liked particularly to work ing one of our great American musicians, ear and marched him over to see the Com with young people, and he gave unstintingly mandant of the Marine Corps. will play a part in preserving for future gen of his time to the development and promo erations other landmarks in other places The elder Sousa was a trombone player in tion of high school bands. Oftentimes he the Marine Band. He also did carpentry which belong to our treasured American took up the baton himself to lead the young heritage. work in the Commandant's house. It was musicians. arranged then and there that the boy re Let those who bear the responsib111ty of John Philip Sousa died on March 6, 1932, planning our cities, our parks, and suburban ceive the training and discipline tradition at Reading, Pa., where he had been scheduled ally offered by the Marine Corps. areas, take note of former days and places. to conduct a band performance. His body From them and from great men such as we Young Sousa's musical talents also were was brought home to his native city of Wash put to work. He became an apprentice mu honor here today, we and generations to ington, to lie in state in the band hall of come, can derive inspiration and strength. sician at the Marine Barracks at Eighth and the Marine Barracks. He was buried, with I Streets SE. Since his 10th year he had Thank you. military honors, in the Congressional Ceme Ml". BoswELL. I will take this opportunity,, played the triangle, cymbals, and the E-fiat tery, not far from here. alto horn (in his autobiography at this as we bring the ceremony to a close, to thank point he pens the words, "God forgive me" in It is clearly apparent that our Nation is the Commandant of the Marine Corps for the better because John Philip Sousa was many courtesies, and the U.S. Marine Band, parentheses) . Sousa composed an early born in this place, lived and worked in this march or two as a junior member of the Ma under the leadership of Col. Albert Schoep rine Band. city, participated so actively in the life of per, for its inspiring music in reverent mem this country, and left so deep a mark on its ory of John Philip Sousa. This first tour of duty with the Marine history and culture. Band lasted about 5 years. Then he resigned To Congressman BROOKS and our other dis to study, teach, and play the "fiddle," as he To help us remember-with the deepest tinguished speakers and to all our friends put it, and conduct his own orchestra. admiration for his great talents, and many and neighbors, including those who have During an engagement on the road in Sep achievements-these lasting contributions worked so hard to arrange this ceremony, I tember 1880, John Philip got word from his of John Philip Sousa, there will be unveiled say thanks again. father that the Commandant of the Marine the plaque marking his birthplace. And now the ceremony will be concluded Corps wanted him to come home as quickly (Mrs. Abert unveils John Ph1lip Sousa with the retirement of the colors and the as possible lead the Marine Band. plaque.) Marine Hymn. If you will remain standing, to please. And after that refreshments await ACCEPTANCE OF PLAQUE BY RANDALL C. KING His leadership of the Marine Band spanned us nearby in Christ Church Parish Hall. All the careers of five Presidents, from 1880 to Mr. KING. Congressman Brooks, Mr. Hor are invited. Thank you. 1892. The first bandmaster to take the band sky, Colonel Schoepper and members of the on tour, he became known throughout the Marine Band, Ml"s. Abert, members of the United States and abroad. Restoration Society, and friends, on behalf For all his love of the Marine Corps and of my brother, Jacquire, and myself, it ls · Captive Nations his intense patriotism, Sousa was a practical with great pleasure tha·t I accept this bronze man, atHicted by the same problems that plaque marking the birthplace of John Phlllp -most of us have. We hear today of good men Sousa. EXTENSION OF REMARKS leaving Government service because of low We are both proud to have had the op OF pay. Sousa did the same thing. In 1892 he portunity of restoring this house. We ap decided to leave his military position, which preciate the efforts of the Capitol Hlll Re HON. W. J. BRYAN DORN paid $1,500 a year, and take charge of a pri storation Society in making this commemo OF SOUTH CAROLINA ration possible. vate concert orchestra organized by a syndi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cate of businessmen. They offered Sousa My brother and I lived next door and in the $6,000 a year plus a 20-percent share of the spring of 1960, we became interested in pur Wednesday, July 22, 1964 profits. chasing this house for two reasons: because During the 12 years of his Marine Band of its proximity and our interest in preserv Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, we have re leadership, Sousa had given pleasure to mil ing Sousa's birthplace. cently observed the sixth observance of lions and enhanced the musical education At that time, the house was divided into Captive Nations Week. and appreciation of the country, if not the three rental units and was in a sad state of Mr. Speaker, captive nations hold the world. He wrote many famous marches dur- repair, as Mr. Boswell and others may recall. key to the future destiny of the free CX--1049 16672 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE July 22 world. If we forget the captive nations tain region, the upper Great Lakes iron Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and forever turn them over to Russian ore region, and other parts of the Na ranked lower in terms of obligating Fed domination, then eventually all of the tion. Third, the statistics are largely eral aid funds apportioned for the pri free world will succumb to subversion, in terms of dollars and percentages, and mary and secondary highway systems. Communist infiltration, and conquest. do not consider other important factors This raises the very basic question of A principle is involved-a principle of such as cost of living, property owner whether extending an additional, special right and wrong. It was wrong for this ship, savings, credit, and so forth. Federal aid highway program to the Nation after spending billions of dol Before the Congress enacts a special Appalachian portion of Maryland-as lars and thousands of lives for freedom Appalachia relief bill, it must satisfy it would be done under the President's re to perm.it Russia to take over as captives self that the region is in urgent need of lief proposal-can be justified. the great peoples of Central Europe. such relief, that such need is more seri Tennessee: 49 of the 95 counties of Whenever free people compromise a basic ous than that of other economically de Tennessee are in the Appalachian region principle for a fleeting political expe pressed areas, and that the States in described in the Presidents' proposal. dient, they pay for it later in the loss of volved cannot handle the problems All of these 49 counties are within the more freedom and with the loss of lives. through their own financial resources power service area of the Tennessee Val Mr. Speaker, we must formulate a and regular Federal aid programs. The ley Authority, which 1s reputed to have policy of victory over oppression. We following items concerning the States accomplished so much in improving the must go from the negative to the posi having areas in Appalachia are pertinent economy of the region. In a statement tive, from the defensive to the otrensive. in this connection: presented to the ad hoc subcommittee, Our foreign policy must be built not only Virginia: At public hearings held by the Governor of Tennessee said: around preserving freedom but recap the ad hoc subcommittee, a spokesman I would like to emphasize from the be turing freedom for those gallant peo for the Governor of Virginia stated that ginning that while we are here considering ples so long held under ruthless Com while 21 Virginia counties are in Appa the Appalachian region as a whole, not all munist domination. lachia, as defined in the President's pro of the region as such should be considered We should demand in the United Na posal, some of these are very prosperous in a depressed condition. To the contrary, tions, on the floor of this Congress, and . and only 6 or 7 counties in extreme within the region lie some of our most in every public forum dealing with inter prosperous industrial complexes. In Ten southwestern Virginia are in need of help. nessee's portion of Appalachia, for example, national affairs that the captive nations He commented that the 21 counties were the Kingsport-Johnson City-Bristol area, the must be freed. War is not necessary. included in Appalachia "because some Morristown-Greeneville area, and the Knox Russia can be forced out of these captive where 2 or 3 years ago some individual v111e-Alcoa-Oak Ridge areas, to mention sev nations through courage, persistence, simply drew a line on the map at the foot eral, serve as the large economic nucleus determination, and public opinion. Jus of the mountains." The prepared state around which most of our industry exists. tice is on the side of the captive peoples ment of the Governor, read at the hear West Virginia: This State is the only and will eventually prevail. ings, contained the following statements: one totally included in Appalachia. In I am very conscious of the fact that, with a statement presented to the ad hoc the exception of a few counties in southwest subcommittee, the Governor of West Vir Virginia, the need for the assistance and aid ginia said: Appalachia-Some Facts Not Mentioned contemplated by this bill is not imperative in Virginia. This period [1961-64] has been one of great by the President's Commission There is little that this bill envisions that economic recovery for the State, with a new is not already being undertaken by existing peak of cooperation reached between the peo EXTENSION OF REMARKS agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia. ple and all levels of government. Just look at these facts: OF Maryland: Only 3 of Maryland's 23 Unemployment, which stood at 105,000 in HON. JAMES C. AUCHINCLOSS counties are in Appalachia as defined 1n January 1961, has been gradually cut down to less than 60,000 early in 1964. We have OF NEW JERSEY the President's relief proposal. These counties include just 6.3 percent of the beautified and cleaned up the State to make IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State's population. In 1963, per capita it more attractive to new industry and tour Wednesday, July 22, 1964 ists-and many new plants and a great in personal income in Maryland was higher crease in the tourist trade are the results. Mr. AUCHINCLOSS. Mr. Speaker, an than in 40 other States, and substan We were the first State to institute a State ad hoc subcommittee of the Committee tially above the national average. The work and training program-providing both on Public Works has been considering the percentage of Maryland families having the dignity of the individual and means of President's proposed Appalachian Re an annual income of less than $3,000 1s earning a living-to thousands of unem gional Development Act of 1964. The substantially less than the national aver ployed fathers, and this program has been age, and the percentage of Maryland so effective it is being recommended as a President's proposal presents two basic model to other States. questions: First, whether the Congress families having an annual income of should enact a special massive relief pro more than $10,000 is substantially higher The Governor's reference to "many gram for one comparatively small part than the national average. The State new plants'' is confirmed by statistics of the Nation to the exclusion of other completed the fiscal year ending June 30, concerning building contracts. The areas, and second, whether conditions in 1963, with a surplus of about $32 million, value of private building contracts for Appalachia are so much worse than in and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, industrial plants in West Virginia other areas as to necessitate massive Fed with a surplus of some $31 million. As awarded during 1962 was $119,500,000- eral spending. a result, pressure is mounting for repeal about 4.7 percent of the U.S. total of The report by the President's Appa of a State income tax increase enacted such contracts. This is significant in lachian Regional Commission sets forth earlier this year. view of the fact that the population of a number of selected statistics which pur In view of these facts, it is in order West Virginia is only about 1 percent of port to show that the Appalachian region to inquire as to why Maryland cannot that of the United States. is lagging and is in need of special assist or will not meet the problems of its por Neither this extensive industrial con ance. But it is questionable whether tion of Appalachia through its own re struction nor what the Governor of West these statistics give an accurate picture sources and existing Federal aid pro Virginia referred to as a period of "great of the situation. Although the report grams. economic recovery" during 1961-64 is was submitted to the Congress in the As to utilization of existing Federal reflected in the report of the President's spring of 1964, it uses, almost entirely, aid programs, there is evidence that Appalachian Regional Commission since, statistics for 1960 and earlier years. Lat Maryland is lagging badly, at least as as noted above, the statistics quoted in er statistics are available, but for some regards the Federal-aid highway pro that report are almost entirely for 1960. reason were not used. Second, the report gram. As of May 31, 1964, Maryland Pennsylvania: In 1963, the per capita compares Appalachia to naitional aver was at the bottom of the list of States personal income in Pennsylvania was ages-which are influenced by the most of the Union in terms of obligating Fed about the same as the national average, prosperous areas-instead of comparing eral aid funds apportioned for the Na and was higher than such income in the Appalachia to other economically de tional System of Interstate and Defense Southeast, Southwest, Plains, and Rocky pressed areas such as the Ozark Moun- Highways. As of the same date, only Mountain regions of the United States. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 16673 The percentage of families having an the Repart of the President's Appalach Commission. No testimony on behalf of annual income of less than $3 ,000 has ian Regional Commission uses 1960 sta South Carolina was presented ait the been well below the national average, tistics, the repart cannot measure the hearings of the ad hoc subcommittee. both in the State as a whole and in the impact or effectiveness of the programs. Nevertheless, six South Carolina coun Appalachian portion of Pennsylvania. Certainly, this should be known before ties are included in Appalachia as the It is interesting to note that as of April another massive Federal spending pro region is defined in the new bill, H.R. 15, 1964, Federal grants totaling $58,988,- gram is launched. 11946. It is pertinent to note that as of 000 had been extended to the Appalach Ohio: The per capita personal income April 15, 1964, none of these six counties ian portion of Pennsylvania under the in Ohio, is well above the national aver was eligible for assistance under the Accelerated Public Works Act. age. The State has a lower percentage Area Redevelopment Act, and only one Alabama: Nearly half of the 32 coun of families having an annual income was eligible for assistance under the ties in Appalachian Alabama are in the under $3,000, and a higher percentage Public Works Acceleration Act. Tennessee Valley Authority region. Of of families with an annual income over North Carolina: 10 of the 29 Appalach these 32 counties, 6 have never had suf $10,000 than the national average. It ian counties in North Carolina have ficiently high unemployment rates to be appears that even the Appalachian por never been eligible for assistance under eligible for Federal grants under the Ac tion of Ohio, which includes less than the Accelerated Public Works Act, and celerated Public Works Act, and 2 addi 10 percent of the State's population, is an additional 5 were eligible at one tional counties were once eligible, but comparatively well off, may not share time but became ineligible because of have so improved as to be eligible no common problems with the rest of Ap improved employment rates. According longer. Thus; eight counties, or one palachia, and may not need or even to the report of the President's Ap fourth of the Appalachian counties, are benefit substantially from the President's palachian Regional Commission, the Ap now ineligible for such assistance. De propasal to assist Appalachia. palachian portion of North Carolina had spite this, as of April 15, 1964, Federal Testimony prepared by the State of a lower unemployment rate than the bal grants totaling $20,827,000 had been ex Ohio, and submitted for the record dur ance of the Nation in both 1950 and tended to the Appalachian portion of ing hearings of the ad hoc subcommittee 1960. The people in the Appalachian Alabama under the Accelerated Public contains the following: part of North Carolina have reacted to Works Act. Concerning median family income in Ap the President's relief proposal with a Furthermore, the report of the Presi palachia, those for Ohio counties are sub "mixture of indifference, amusement, dent's Appalachian Commission does not stantially larger than the value for all of and resentment" according to an edi re:tlect the economic impact of recent Appalachia. The lowest median income in torial in the May 23, 1964, edition of the developments in the area, since it utilizes any county in the Ohio Valley region was State, a magazine published in North 1960 statistics. The July 20, 1964, edi $2,829 in 1959; the highest was $4,974. Con Carolina and devoted largely to North comitantly, the median incomes of 11 coun Carolina affairs. An article in the same tion of U.S. News & World Report con ties in the Ohio Valley region exceed $4,000. tains an informative article on the eco For the region as a whole, the 18-county edition of that magazine shows that busi nomic boom in the Huntsville, Ala. average of the individual county median ness is booming in the northwestern part area--which is part of Appalachia. Ac family incomes increased from $2,005 in 1949 of the State-the part in Appalachia. cording to this article, about 4 years ago to $4,104 in 1959. With adjustment for Both the editorial and the article were the Marshall Space Flight Center, em price-level increases which also prevailed dur inserted in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD by ploying some 7 ,000 persons, was estab ing this same period, the change in the the gentleman from New Hampshire adjusted (deflated) regional average family [Mr. CLEVELAND], CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, lished in Huntsville. The Army and income represented an increase of almost NASA have drawn to northern Alabama 70 percent (69.9 percent) in purchasing June 25, 1964, at page 15002. many hundreds of contractors who want power during this 10-year period. These Workers in Transylvania County, to be close by the Space Center. This relationships suggest a different order of N.C.-an Appalachian county-have bet year, the Center will award contracts of economic condition than that representative tered their economic position in recent $1 billion on Saturn rockets, and per of the other areas within Appalachia. years, and can live more luxuriously haps $200 million of that will be spent It is acknowledged that the median in than they did a few years ago, according in the Huntsville area. Huntsville has comes characteristic of the Ohio Valley to an article in the June 25, 1964, edition region are not equal to those of other of the Transylvania Times. This ar doubled its population in just 4 years, counties of Ohio. These inequities notwith and spawned local industries such as standing, the rate of improvement in the ticle, which serves to place the Appalach Brown Engineering which has grown Ohio Valley region (plus 107.8 percent) ex ian relief proposal in better perspec from a handful of men to 3,400 em ceeded the rate of improvement in other tive, follows: ployees. Huntsville now leads all Ala Ohio regions. It also exceeded the rate of WAGE EARNERS BETTER OFF IN COUNTY bama in income per household. It has improvement for Ohio as a whole (83.5 The average Transylvania County worker added one classroom a week to its school percent) in the decade 1949-59. Clearly, has been bettering his economic position in system for the last 9 years. Last year, programs immediately applicable to the recent years. problems of all of Appalachia may not be Even though his cost of living has been go 6,000 jobs were created in the area. In of direct significance in improving condi 1963, building permits exceeded $81 ing up, his income has been moving upward tions in the Ohio Valley region if median at a faster rate. million, compared with a little more than income constitutes a primary determinant. Without putting in any more effort than $5 million in 1950. Georgia: About one-third of the 35 he did 10 years ago, in terms of hours or Kentucky: During his testimony be Appalachian counties in Georgia are in labor, he finds he can live more luxuriously fore the ad hoc subcommittee the Gov than he did then. ernor of Kentucky placed great emphasis the area serviced by the Tennessee Val The increase in his income has more than on the actions taken by the State itself ley Authority. Ten of the 35 counties made up for the increase in his living costs. have never been eligible for assistance The average workingman in Transylvania during the past 2 to 4 years to solve under the Accelerated Public Works Act, County now earns enough in only 24 minutes problems in Appalachia. He stressed because their rate of unemployment is on the job, for example, to buy a pound of extensive State action in the fields of not high enough. In fact, according to coffee or a pound of bacon. Ten years ago education, highways, conservation, the report of the President's Appalach they would have involved considerably more health, and parks and recreation. He working time. ian Regional Commission, in both By putting in 37 minutes of labor he is also discussed a propased 1965 bond 1950 and 1960 the unemployment rate issue of $176 million to provide funds able to buy a pound of round steak. He can for highways, schools, parks, community in the Appalachian portion of Georgia get an automobile tire (6.70 by 15) with the was lower than in the balance of the proceeds of some 13 hours of work. health centers, agriculture development, United States. The changes that have taken place small lakes, libraries, and other facilities. South Carolina: No part of South throughout the United States and the com In addition to these State actions, Fed Carolina was included in Appalachia as parison of present-day worktimes with those eral grants totaling $27,561,000 have been that region was defined in the original of 1953 are reported by the National Indus made in the Appalachian part of Ken trial Conference Board and by the Bureau proposal of the President. No comments of Labor Statistics. tucky under the Accelerated Public or information concerning the economy Some idea of the extent of this change Works Act. Since these actions occurred of this State is to be found in the report is brought out in the figures, which show the during the past 2 to 4 years,. .and since of the President's Appalachian Regional amount of time that the average American 16674 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 22 worker must put in to buy various con Gene has today a proud record to look Sitting here as I do in Washington, D.C., sumer items. back upon-a record of devoted service I am more concerned with Federal encroach A dozen eggs, grade A, requires 13 minutes to his chief, Speaker McCORMACK, to the ment than almost any other issue. My con of work today, compared with 26 minutes 10 cern focuses on the fact of evolving en years ago. House of Representatives, and to the croachment being veiled by what may ap A pair of nylon stockings takes 23 m inutes, country. He has won a host of faithful pear to be good programs and policies. This as against 37 minutes previously. friends, of whom I am proud to count reminds me of the frog in the tub. Water A medium-price man's wool suit, formerly myself one. May he long continue to was added at a slowly increasing temperature a -27 1/2 -hour item, can now be bought with serve his country in the post which he until the frog was boiled to death, but never just 20 hours of work. has fi.lled with such distinction. felt the pain. He just fell asleep and woke The reports reveal, also, the wide gap that up dead. Had the frog been abruptly tossed still exists between the buying power of the into boiling water he would have jumped American worker and that of his counter out and saved his life. parts in other countries. The lifeblood of our way of life is our free The loaf of bread that a factory worker in Independence Reviewed dom. All government can give you is what it this country is able to buy after only 5 first takes from you. When government minutes on the job requires 11 minutes in gives us benefits funded by our own dollars, Paris or West Berlin, 19 minutes in Tokyo, EXTENSION OF REMARKS it also cinches the binder on our freedoms 24 minutes in Madrid, and 36 minutes in a little tighter. Our way of life is being Moscow. OF atrophied by an ever tighter cinch on our In the last decade, it is shown the cost freedoms. This is the fact of which I am of living has advanced about 14 percent in HON. JACK WESTLAND most aware when I cast yo:ur vote in Con the United States. OF WASHINGTON gress on issues and programs that involve This rise has been more than offset in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES social and economic problems and solutions. Transylvania County by the increase in per Wednesday, July 22, 1964 Professed compassion at the Federal level capita income, which amounted to 94 per very often turns out to be cynical vote cent in the period. Mr. WESTLAND. Mr. Speaker, as a buying gimmicks. In such cases qualifica nation, we Americans this month ob tion for assistance and benefits depends on served the anniversary marking 188 years voting patterns past and prospective. Now comes the war on poverty. I know of of independence for this country. The no one who favors poverty, but a study of Commendation of Eugene T. Kinnaly, Ad occasion, it seemed to me, called for the simple facts about it raises questions ministrative Assistant to the Speaker some reflection on the value of freedom about the sincerity of its authors. For there to our American way of life, and so I seems to be little real relief in it for poverty made this the subject of my July news stricken people. The legislation calls for pro EXTENSION OF REMARKS letter to constituents of my district, the viding $28 per person per year to those OF Second Congressional District of Wash President Johnson says are poverty stricken. ington State. That's typical of the benefits. The bill also HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. In my newsletter, I pointed out that sets up a poverty czar who will have au OF MASSACHUSETTS thority to buy land and set up controlled Americans have fought and died in wars family-sized farms. Land reform and col IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to preserve our freedom against threats lectivized farming have not yet been made a Wednesday, July 22, 1964 from outside our borders. But I also part of our heritage of independence. pointed out that there is another war There are presently 42 Federal programs to Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, Eugene T . going on right here inside our borders. combat poverty. They involve an annual Kinnaly, atiectionately known as Gene to And that war, I suggested, resolves it outlay of $31.8 billion. The administration's a vast number of friends among the formula for fighting newly discovered pov self around the question of how much erty would add duplicating programs at an Members of Congress and their sta:ffs, is independence the people of this country now completing his 46th year of service additional $5 billion per annum cost in 3 will preserve for themselves rather than years. · as a congressional secretary. For 36 give up by default to their government. Local and State governments are currently of these 46 years, he has been the right Because of its timely subject, Mr. spending $34.7 billion on welfare programs hand man of Representative JoHN W. Speaker, I believe that my newsletter, and private sources add another $35.5. This McCORMACK, of Massachusetts. Since Nation is spending almost $100 billion per Mr. McCoRMACK's election as Speaker, in "Independence and Poverty," will be of year to reduce poverty, but the expression the 2d session of the 87th Congress, he interest not only to the people I repre of the President has the world believing we has served as administrative assistant to sent, but to a great many Members of don't care. Existing law and proposed the Speaker. Congress as well. Therefore, under amendments for vocational training have leave to extend my remarks, the news been rejected and unused by the Executive. Gene's loyalty and devotion to his Instead the new poverty program will cost chief have been outstanding; but equally letter together with the section entitled, "As I See It,'' follows: $4,700 a year for each Job Corps recruit. outstanding has been his constant atti Why you could send your son to Harvard for tude of courtesy and helpfulness to ev INDEPENDENCE AND POVERTY less than that. Yet the administration turns eryone with whom he has come in con We Americans have once again celebrated thumbs down on my proposal to give parents tact. Through these many years, Gene Independence Day-or the Fourth of July. who have children in college a tax credit. During the years since that Declaration, You have indicated to me in your replies has been one of the best liked men in Americans have fought and died to preserve to my questionnaires that Federal encroach congressional staff service, and many that independence. In this century two ment is one of the important issues today Members of Congress have learned to de World Wars have been fought to prevent and I agree. I hope, that when we think of pend upon him for detailed, accurate in the domination of the world by a single the Declaration of Independence, issued 188 formation and for wise advice. power. Even now we are engaged in a war years ago, we remind ourselves that that in A year ago, in recognition of Gene's in South Vietnam trying to prevent a take dependence which we treasured so greatly 45th anniversary as a congressional sec over of a country by Communist forces. then is still just as dear today. retary, the Honorable BARRATT O'HARA of And there is evidence that this war could Sincerely yours, grow into another Korea. But it seems this Congressman JACK WESTLAND. Illinois paid this eloquent and memorable Nation stands almost alone in its determina tribute to his character: tion to help people preserve their identity The wealth that man accumulates is not and their nationality. As I SEE IT in the gold that is mined from the earth, Yet is seems to me that there is another (By Helen Westland) but in the gold that is in the friendships en war going on right here inside our own We have had an unusually large number gendered by his words of gentleness and sym borders. And that war resolves itself on the of Washington Second District friends in our pathetic understanding, his deeds of help question of how much independence the peo omce this summer, most of them with their fulness, his spirit of humility and humane ple of this country will preserve for them children, en route to see the New York ness. By this measure Gene Kinnaly is one selves or give by default to their Govern World's Fair. They all liked our fair better: of the richest men on Capitol Hill. ment. I suppose I can be accused of being said ours wasn't as big, but also wasn't so reactionary and of seeing bogeys where none commercial. They sounded like proud west No better summation of Gene Kin exist--but it appears to me that Americans erners talking, and we loved it. naly's character and achievements could are losing their freedoms by Government I've been busy this summer helping to be made than this. takeover. open, read, and tabulate the questionnaires .... 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 16675 JACK sent you, and which so many thou lost their lives through automobile acci privileges as drivers are not given fur sands of you responded to with your opin dents. Ironically, we have lost only ther opportunities to abuse their fellow ions. JACK is very appreciative of your ef forts in this project. In addition, we had 1,128,000 brave Americans through U.S. men. the U.S. National Open golf championship participation in eight major wars-in played in Washington, D.C., this summer, and cluding the Revolutionary War, the Civil as an official lady scorer, I was lucky in draw War, two World Wars, and the Korean Extremism ing Arnold Palmer to score for the first day. conflict. An automobile death rate of He's a gentleman, and every bit the great 43,400 persons in 1963 should shock our golfer we hear about. . EXTENSION OF REMARKS Another project that took some time was sensibilities and cause us to demand ac OF the Republican quilt which was made by us tion to protect our citizens. Republican congressional wives, and which Automobile safety is a matter for pub HON. EVERETT G. BURKHALTER took us a whole ·year to complete. I was lic concern and action. The driving OF CALIFORNIA quilt chairman, and this meant keeping track public-more than three-quarters of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of 213 elephants, seeing that they got em Nation's families-has a right to demand broidered, appliqued, and assembled into that the Nation's highways be free from Wednesday, July 22, 1964 the 9-foot 6-inch square quilt that it is. ·Mr. BURKHALTER. Mr. Speaker, Both political parties have specialties at their hazardous driving conditions and that conventions, and this was the wives• con State laws stringently penalize speeding, the thinking patriot, devoted to this tribution for the 1964 Republican Conven recklessness, and drunken driving. It country, but awake to what is going on tion. Had there been a similar quilt made also has the right to demand that auto around him is facing a number of most in Lincoln's time, it would be most interest mobile manufacturers provide a product important political decisions. Decisions ing today. that is uniformly easy to control in magnified by their prominence in the emergencies and that wil.l fully protect American scheme, and confused by re passengers in the event of accidents. cent developments on this political scene. Automobile Safety By and large the automotive industry Confused again, and confounded by the has acted very responsibly to promote failure of leadership in our Nation. EXTENSION OF REMARKS research into safety devices for automo A failure that runs through the fabric OF biles. Hydraulic brakes, directional turn of this country from the top to the bot signals, safety glass, and all steel auto tom, a failure that refuses to act deci HON. WM. J. RANDALL mobile frames have been developed as a sively in the face of an emergency and a OF MISSOURI result of their research. This year safety failure that may wreck our present two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES belts are standard equipment on all as party polit.ical system. Wednesday, July 22, 1964 sembly line production cars. To be sure, some leaders have been But the record of automobile manu vocal, but their voice is lost in the at Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, abun mosphere of hatred that is abroad in the dance and inventiveness have made the facturers is not without blemish. Too often advanced safety devices have been land. Hatred runs wild in the Nation United States the most mobile nation in and snarls from the podium and the mi history. No citizenry has ever been able sold as luxury accessories rather than as the minimum necessities that they are. crophone. History contains no more to travel to so many places so easily in bitter performance in the.actions of par so short a time. Consider the following Too often the customer has had to pay extra money to purchase safety devices tisan politics than the snarl of contempt statistics: from a candidate after three Governors Three-quarters of all American fam that of right should be standard equip ment to protect his life. Such items as had pleaded with the Republican politi ilies own at least one car. cal convention to adopt a plank con Ten percent of our gross national padded instrument panels, well-anchored seats, dual brake systems, and shock demning the Communists, the Ku Klux product is somehow related to the auto Klan, and the Birchers. motive industry. absorbing bumpers should be developed The average vehicle on our highway as standard equipment for all automo The convention delegates turned down travels nearly 10,000 miles per year. biles. their own party leaders by a majority By 1974 the 84 million vehicles now The House of Representatives has just estimated at 2 to 1 and rang down the registered will have increased past the passed a bill on automobile safety which curtain on the two-party system in this 100 million mark. is a proper first step in the establish country-in the opinion of many people. The total mileage recorded by passen ment of national standards for passenger The efforts of the three Governors, ger cars, trucks, and buses is increasing safety equipment in automobiles. H.R. backed by a former President of this Na at the rate of 175 billion miles a year, 1341 provides that the Administrator of tion came to naught when the final blast and has already reached an annual dis General Services, the purchasing agent of the party candidate claims "extrem tance traveled of 800 billion miles. for the Federal Government, shall estab ism is no vice in defense of liberty." Unfortunately, many of the merits of lish commercial standards for passenger Wrapping the defense of patriotism mobility have been offset by awesome safety devices which must be provided in around the night raids, the church bomb automobile accident rates. We are all motor vehicles purchased by the U.S. ings, the kidnapings, the sneak attacks plagued by continual death and injury Government. An immediate effect of on homes, the candidate offered a de on our streets and highways. the legislation would be to protect the fense of liberty as his excuses for justi It is actually safer to fight in a war lives and limbs of Government em fication of extremism. against a foreign power than it is to ployees while they are on duty. Something of this must have been in drive an automobile in the United States. The bill will affect the annual pur the mind of Governor Hatfield, of Ore In 1963 alone the total number of per chase of some 10,000 passenger-carrying gon, in his keynote speech. It fits the sonal injuries lasting beyond the day of vehicles. It is intended to encourage situation so perfectly it must be repeated accident was greater than the sum total the automotive industry voluntarily . to here: of all nonfatal wounds to all American extend safety devices to all autos, with The Republican position- soldiers in all domestic and foreign wars out direct Federal regulation. and inter since 1776. Injuries from automobile vention. However, the Members of Con Declared Hatfield- accidents in 1963 totaled 1,600,000; gress will look with great interest at the challenges any who would destroy freedom, nonfatal wounds in all wars totaled results of this experiment. Safety of whether they wrap themselves in a false the driving public is a matter of great cloak of patriotism or an equally false coat roughly 1,280,000. No wonder the in of religion. surance companies paid out $900 million concern to all of us. on bodily injury liability policies be We look forward to the day when our And within 48 hours, the party candi tween 1953 and 1962. highways will be safe for drivers and date would shout, "moderation is no National Safety Council figures com pedestrians alike through a combination virtue,'' when concerned with freedom, paring deaths attributable to automo of optimal passenger safety equipment from the same platform. biles and warfare are no more comfort for all vehicles and a full body of State For its clarity of expression and its ing. More than 1,500;000 persons have laws to insure that those who abuse their sound American doctrine, portions of 16676 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 22 Hatfield's speech cry for repeated read with the leaders picking delegates and choose their political leaders. Insofar ing: alternates when he said: as that right is neglected or insufficiently We have faith in the forces of law and They had more than done their duty in used by the citizens of a nation, the order under our Constitution. There a.re precinct and other local Republican orga. democratic process of that nation is im bigots who spew forth venom and hate. They nizations but they were denied a place in paired. It is an unfortunate truth that must be overcome and the Republican Party tho convention- in the United States, a large percentage wlll lead the quest for victory in the strug According to him- of our citizens fail to cast their ballots gle to change the minds and hearts of men on election day. My bill is designed to because it is only by such a victory that because they might have been controversial. human dignity will be won and preserved. remedy this deficiency, and as such, it is While the rejection of the Rockefeller intended to strengthen and perfect the Although his denunciation of "extreme and the Romney planks for the platform democratic process of this Nation by en bigoted groups which include the Com brought disappointment to some of the couraging greater participation on the munists, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John delegates, it is interesting to note that part of the people. Birch Society" brought part of the au Robert Welch, the founder of the Society The United States has long prided it dience in the hall to their feet and was reported "pleased and surprised" at self on being the world's foremost demo stopped the speech for a full minute, the margin by which the Republican cratic Nation, but the voting record of when the time came to vote, the voice convention rejected the plank, according our citizens is sometimes embarrassing vote was adjudged against platform to an Associated Press dispatch from in the face of our political position. In planks to name the groups as objection Urbana, m., where Welch was reported 1948, of 95 million potential voters in able. in conference with a University of Illi the United States, only 48,834,000 or 51.5 Hatfield, as keynoter and as a prom nois professor and Birch Society leader. percent voted in the national election. ising political leader in the Republican In conclusion, may I state that the de In 1952, of the 98 million persons of vot Party today, set the pace for the conven velopments in San Francisco definitely ing age, only 61,552,000 actually did tion. No vote was taken after his speech, indicate a party split worse than that vote-62.7 percent. In 1956, 62,027,000 the pause of a full minute seemed to of 1912 and while it will be of great help or 60.4 percent of the 103 million pos promise that the convention was opposed to the Democratic Party in the upcoming sible voters went to the polls. And to extremists. election, the end of the two party system though in 1960 we recorded our greatest Governor Rockefeller and the Nation will be a blow for Democrats as well as voting record, only 63.3 percent of found out about this the following day. Republicans. our 108 million qualified voters-68,- Rockefeller had urged a plank in the What is the answer? 382,000-actually cast ballots in the na platform naming the Birch Society as Will clear thinking and commonsense tional election. objectionable. repudiate the Republican candidate who By contrast, in the democracies of It ls essential that this convention repu supports right-to-work laws, who fights Austria, Italy, and Norway, 90 to 97 per diate, here and now any doctrinaire, militant the long overdue civil rights bill, who is cent of those qualified to vote do so, minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux opposed to a fair living for our farm while in England, France, Germany, Klan, or Bircher [John Birch Society]. population, who would end foreign aid, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Israel, Korea, He declared. and who can find no merit in health in Indonesia, and Japan, 75 to 89 percent There was a wave of boos and catcalls. surance for the aged. of the potential voters cast ballots. It Shouts of "No, no," interrupted him. Or will hate and venom continue to is uncomfortably apparent that, rather And the plank was overwhelmingly re dominate the stage while police and than possessing the world's foremost rec jected. demonstrators fight to the death in the ord in this crucial index of a function But the convention had a third chance public streets? ing democracy, the United States is con to reject extremism. Only time can provide the answer. siderably behind other democratic na Governor Romney of Michigan led a Republican leaders charged with the re tions with respect to voter participation. fight for almost the same plank as that sponsibility to provide their party with The bill I propose would emphasize to advocated by Rockefeller except that it intelligent and constructive thinking will our citizens and to our friends abroad did not name Birch or any other group. do well to review the history of Nazi the importance to the democratic tradi His efforts were no more successful Germany during the early days when tion of the right to vote. It would do than Rockefeller's. President von Hindenburg was out so by making election day a nationally The Romney plank was rejected by a maneuvered by an Austrian corporal who observed legal holiday. Independence voice vote. Some 2,600 and more dele brought the greatest disaster of all times Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day-all gates and alternates sat on the conven to that nation. celebrate events central to our demo tion fioor. They are allegedly selected cratic heritage. The right to vote, the to represent the people of this Nation. struggle to achieve that right, and, above If they do represent the people, we are all, the importance of its exercise-these in a sad plight. More than the two Election Day a Legal Holiday too lie at the heart of our political tradi party system is at stake, if this is true. tion. They therefore deserve also to be The power of the Birch Society is no EXTENSION OF REMARKS celebrated in a national manifestation. longer in question. It has been claimed OF I am confiden·t that the enactment of that more than a hundred were in at this bill would help to remedy the con tendance at the convention, "attended HON. WILLIAM L. ST. ONGE stantly minimal voting record of our as individuals" according to John Rous OF CONNECTICUT citizenry. This it would do by emphas izing the right to vote and by enabling selot, of San Marino, Calif., a national IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES organizer for the group, who was de our citizens to exercise this right on a feated for Congress 2 years ago. Wednesday, July· 22, 1964 day specifically dedicated to this pur A high California political leader is Mr. ST. ONGE. Mr. Speaker, I am pose. Laws releasing citizens from their credited with "not wanting too many pleased to introduce a bill to make the employment obligations on election day Birch members on hand," at the conven day on which we elect the President, Vice already exist in 27 States. Through this tion, but he was not identified by a. lady President, or Members of Congress a na bill I would like to extend such provi spokesman. Rousselot stated that the tional legal holiday. sions to cover the citizens of all the society neither endorses candidates nor The bill is designed to strengthen our States of the Union. I am confident that makes political contributions although country's domestic and international voter participation in our national elec it is generally reported that the orga political traditions and to respond to a tions would increase to between 80 and nization collected more than $2 million well-defined, long-pressing political 90 percent of the eligible voters in the last year. need. country. It was vaguely hinted by Rousselot Foremost among the attributes of a This year, for example, the potential that other Birchers were not too popular democracy is the right of the people to number of voters in the country should 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 16677 reach about 114 million. On the basis of petuate the image of laxity in our demo American in Congress assembled, That the our voting record in 'the past, only about cratic system. For these reasons, Mr. first Tuesday after the first Monday of No 70 to 72 million citizens will cast their Speaker, I introduce the following bill: ·vember in 1964 and in each even-numbered ballots on election day; were election day [88th Cong., 2d sess.] year thereafter shall be known as Election to be observed as a national, legal holi H.R. 12013 Day, and is hereby made a legal publlc hoU day, as provided in my bill, I believe that In the House of Representatives, July 22, day to all intents and purposes and in the between 90 and 100 million voters would 1964; Mr. ST. ONGE introduced the following tum out at the polls. I can think of no bill, which was referred to the Committee the same manner as the 1st day of January, on the Judiciary: greater demonstration of the vitality of the 22d day of February, the 30th day of A bill making the day on which electors of May, the 4th day of July, the first Monday American democracy. If we continue our President and Vice President and Members present methods, instead of adopting a of Congress are elected a legal holiday of September, the 11th day of November, uniform national law declaring election Be it enacted by the Senate and House Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day are day a legal holiday, we shall only per- of Representatives of the United States of now made by law public holidays.

from the President of the United States EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, SENATE submitting sundry nominations, which ETC. were referred to the appropriate com The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964 mittees. pore laid before the Senate the following (For nominations this day received, letters, which were referred as indicated: The Senate met at 11 o'clock a.m., see the end of Senate proceedings.) REPORT ON PROPERTY ACQUISITIONS OF EMER and was called to order by the Acting GENCY SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT President pro temPore (Mr. METCALF). MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE A letter from the Director of Civil De The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown fense, reporting, pursuant to law, on property Harris, D.D., offered the following A message from the House of Repre acquisitions of emergency supplies and equip prayer: sentatives, by Mr. Bartlett, one of its ment, for the quarter ended June 30, 1964; reading clerks, announced that the to the Committee on Armed Services. Our Father, God: As another morning House had passed the fallowing bills of DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN SISAL FROM NATIONAL climbs to the hour before noon, ascending the Senate, each with an amendment, STOCKPILE this hill of the Lord, may we breathe the in which it requested the concurrence A letter from the Acting Administrator, pure air above the dusty plains of the of the Senate: General Services Administration, Washing ton, D.C., transmitting a. draft of proposed trivial and the temporary, finding here S. 136. An act to place in trust status cer an altar of pardon and of peace. legislation to authorize the disposal, without tain lands on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation regard to the prescribed 6-month waiting May the memory of Thy past mercies in South Dakota; and period, of approximately 9,500,000 pounds mingle like sweet incense with a strength S. 2881. An act to amend the Alaska Omni of sisal from the national stockpile (with ening assurance of Thy present nearness bus Act to provide assistance to the State accompanying papers); to the Committee on of Alaska for the reconstruction of areas Armed Services. which no malignancy or cruelty of man's damaged by the earthquake of March 1964, devising can snatch from those whose and subsequent seismic waves, and for other REPORT ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF INEFFICIENT minds are stayed on Thee. purposes. SUPPLY MANAGEMENT AT THE U.S. ARMY ENGINEER DEPOT, 8TH U.S. ARMY, KOREA Our hearts grow faint in the dusty The message also announced that the futilities of our foolish pride. The cries A letter from the Comptroller General of House had passed a bill