6666 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - - HOUSE April 19 The message also announced that the in my own district, under the direction HOUSE OFlttPRESENTATIVES · Senate had passed, with amendments in of a blind director, will give a concert which the concurrence of the House is on the steps of the Capitol at that time. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1956 requested, a bill of the House of the f al­ I am sure if you have no other appoint­ The House m(;)t at 12 o'clock noon. lowing title: ment you will be inspired by the per.:. Very Reverend Harold W. Rigney, rec­ H. R. 9428. An act to provide for the pro­ f ormance of this very fine musical group curement of medical and dental officers of the under the direction of a very sensitive tor, Fu Jen Catholic University, Peking, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Public Health and capable director. China, offered the following prayer: Service, and for other purposes. We beg of Thee, Almighty God, to The message also announced that the LEO R. SACK bless the Members of this august body, Senate agrees to the report of the com­ and to enlighten and guide them in their mittee of conference on the disagreeing Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, I deliberations and decisions so that they votes of the two House·s on the amend­ ask unanimous consent to address the may continue to preserve and safeguard ments of the House to the bill

,. 1956 CONGRESSIONAL llECORD - HOUSE 6687 Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. -Chafr­ ber the area, that could include a rather Of · this bill to conserve for public use man, I offer another amendment. large number of islands, going clear over the entire beach and waterfront at The Clerk read as follows: to St. Thomas and probably to St. Croix. •Caneel Bay and similar place where the Amendment offered by Mr. _MILLER of ~e­ I offer this as an amendment. It will land meets the water. In Chicago we braska: On page 3, after line 23, insert: make the bill more acceptable to those of had a long fight to redeem our beautiful "SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of us who signed the minority report. If lakefront for use and benefit of all the section 2 hereof the authority to accept, ac­ they find they need more islands and people. It would be a tragedy if the en­ quire or receive by exchange lands for park need more help, they should come back tire Caneel Beach were not open to pub­ purposes under this act shall terminate 3 years after the effective date of this act and to the Congress and state their reasons. lie use. no land shall thereafter be added to the Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Chair- Mr. ENGLE. Mr. Chairman, if the Virgin Islands National Park except by act o:f man, I move to strike out the last word. gentleman will yield, I will be glad to Congress." Mr. Chairman, I should like to ask a make available to the gentleman the map question of the chairman of the com- which has been published by the Park Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ mittee. Under this bill is all of the Service which clearly shows that that man, I have discussed this briefly with waterfront at Caneel Bay reserved for bay which he describes as Caneel is the chairman of the committee. The use of the public? shown on the map as Solomon Bay, and difficulty we have had in some of our Mr. ENGLE. The answer is "Yes." that will be part of the Federal prop- national parks in the past seems to be Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. When the erty. that we set up a national park, then distinguished and beloved gentleman Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. That is as someone comes along without coming to from New York [Mr. GAMBLE], and I I understood, but I wanted to make it Congress and enlarges that park. We visited the Virgin Islands a few months clear that this bill does not give author­ have had that situation down in the ago we found that they were erecting ity to enter into any arrangement that Everglades Park, we have had it in a near the waterfront a number of cottages closes the beaches to the public. I am half dozen areas of the United States to rent. However, at that time all of the most enthused over this project, having where great enlargements have been waterfront apparently was open to pub- viewed firsthand the work that Mr. made without their coming to Congress lie use. That will be continued? Rockefeller has done in building a road for permission to have such enlargement. Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Chairman, if the system where there were only dangerous My amendment would place some re­ gentleman will yield, the gentleman is trails and in restoring some of those old striction upon the Secretary and limit not exactly right. The area around sugar mills that were operating at the him. If they want to go beyond the Cruz Bay, which is just to the south of time Jamestown was settled, as I under­ amount in this· bill then it will be neces­ Caneel Bay, is all privately owned, and stand it. sary to come back to Congress and state from there on around for a considerable Mr. ENGLE. In commenting on the their reasons for the enlargement. That, distance, as well as over to Coral Bay amendment just offered by the gentle­ I think, will avoid some problems like on the other side,·it will still be open to man from Nebraska, I think it is un­ we have in connection with the Ever­ private ownership. It starts someplace necessary, but I do not believe it does glades National Park and some other between Cruz Bay and Caneel Bay area, any harm, and I have no opposition to parks. We have had before us from time arid Rockefeller is building, as the gen- it. to time the situation where they are try­ tleman knows, on his own property, and Mr. WESTLAND. Mr. Chairman, will ing to enlarge parks that sometimes that will be turned over to the Federal the gentleman yield? seem to be large enough already. · Government. Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. I am happy The CHAIRMAN. The question is on Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. I do not know to yield to the gentleman from Wash­ the amendme11t offered by the gentle­ whether the gentleman quite under- ington. man from Nebraska. stands me. I am one who believes that Mr. WESTLAND. My only thought is The amendment was agreed to. Caneel Bay is perhaps the most beauti- that if this property were continued in Mr. ENGLE. Mr. Chairman, I ask ful bathing spot in the world, and I be- the ownership of Mr. Laurance Rocke­ unanimous consent that the section be lieve the gentleman agrees with-me. · feller, it could always be open to the pub- numbered 4, because we now have 2 sec­ Mr. ASPINALL. 'The gentleman from lie as it is today; that with the Federal tions 3 in the bill. Colorado agrees with the gentleman. Government entering into this arrange- The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Under this ment, the picture will not be any im­ to the request of the gentleman from bill will the beach at Caneel Bay be un- provement whatsoever. Does the gen- California? der private control? tleman agree with that? There was no objection. Mr. ASPINALL. It will be part of the Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. It is my un- Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ concession. derstanding that Mr. Rockefeller, who man, I off er an amendment. Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. What part put all this money into building roads The Clerk read as follows: of it? and making restorations-and the cost Amendment offered by Mr. MILLER of Ne­ · Mr. ASPINALL. Well, it will be part was very heavy, especially as all ma­ braska: On page 2, line 12, after "excess o!", of the concession that goes with the terials and most of the labor had to be &trike out "l,000" and insert "500." Rockefeller interests there, the cabanas, brought in from Puerto Rico and else­ Mr. MILLER of Nebraska. Mr. Chair­ the motels, and the small houses up on where-is now making a donation of the man, this goes to the question of how the hill. But, they will be open to use land and property to the Government for many acres beyond the island may be by the public. use as a national park. acquired. The bill reads this way: "and Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. As well as Mr. WESTLAND,_ My only comment such small islands, rocks, and cays not the title? is that Mr. Laurance Rockefeller, as well in excess of 1,000 acres -in- the general Mr. ASPINALL. And the title. known a conservationist as he is, would vicinity thereof as may be desirable.for Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. When I was maintain that facility in the way it is inclusion within the park." down there a few months ago part of today. One thousand acres takes in a lot of caneel Bay, that people talk about all Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Yes, but it is those islands. It stretches clear over to over the world who have been there, possible that Mr. Rockefeller might do St. Johns, and clear over to St. Thomas. seemed to me to be just in front of these someday as I am going to do some­ I think there again we ought to simply expensive cottages that rent, as I under- day-die. cut down on the amount of money in stand, during the season at $100 a day, The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the bill. Possibly we ought to limit how Mr. ASPINALL. No;. $17 a day. the amendment offered by the gentleman many of these islands they may take in. Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Well, that is from Nebraska [Mr. MILLER]. This will make the bill a little more what they told us. The cottages were not · The amendment was agreed to. · palatable to me and I think to other open. But the beaches in front of these The CHAffiMAN. Under the rule, the Members who signed the minority report. cottages will be open to the public? Committee rises. · In other words, the _Secretary here is Mr. ASPINALL. Yes. That is right. Accordingly the Committee rose; and reaching out and taking in, in addition Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. I thank the the Speaker having resumed the chair, to what he has here, another l_,000 acres gentleman. I -wanted to make certain Mr. KEOGH, Chairman of the Committee of the islands around him. As I remem- that it is the purpose of the authors of the Whole House on the State of the '6688 · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-· · HOUSE April 19 Union, reported. that that . Committee, ··$trorig and, to my mind, unanswerable .tive that ·Congress· should act to. hold having had under consideration the·bill ·_argument for these measures. 1 out the su:Pi>Orting hand to bolster up and .t to exceed _2 hours, largest or smallest community, can remain a. the foundation of this Republic, and of the to be equally divided and controlled by the mausoleum of stuffed bluejays, rusty mus· unive~sal republic of mankind- chairman and ranking minority member of kets, and shelves filled with. old Harper's and If in this conviction we so liberally use the Committee on Education-and Labor, the Youth's Companion. The good puolic 11· books in our Unit~d -states Information Serv· bill shall be read for amendment under the brary today, wherever it may:be-located on ices abroad- 5-minute rule. At the conclusion of the a hustling, bustling thoroughfare or a book· Would it not be strange were we to delay. ' consideration of the ·bill for amendment, the _mobile traveling over the snowy or . dusty · _ovel'.long in providing __ access to books for .committee shall rise and report the bill to ranes of a rural district, is .an information Americans _in the rural areas, whence has ·the House with such amendments as may and cultural center; and part of a great bul· traditionally come le~dershlp for our urban/ have been adopted, and the previous question wark of national s~curity and progress. centers? shall be considered as ordered on the bUI and 6690 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 19 .amendments.thereto to final passage. without -There is much merit in what this hum­ saying, ."What you should do.ls kick out Sec­ intervening motion except one motion to re- ble American, our President, said about retary Benson and follow him yourself as commit. · self-discipline. Let me quote: fast as you can." · I really felt I would like to have answered A great Frenchman defined liberty as the that man, for this one reason: He was right; right of self-discipline. In a nation such as POLITICS AND STATESMANSHIP CAN I have many, many busin~ss friends, and ours, indeed in any social order, there is a GO HAND IN HAND some of them sent me messages. But every great need for performance of certain jobs in message I had from the businessmen-and Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask which people must work together. In other some of them old and dear friends-said, unanimous consent to address the House forms of government this group work is pro­ "Please sign the bill." So I think, just in for 1 minute, to revise and extend my duced under the orders of a dictator, or of a defense of "terrible" businessmen, I should central government that is all-powerful. answer· that one man. remarks, and to include a speech of-the Free government gives us the right to do it by President delivered on April 17, 1956. Now tonight, even this early in 1956, we spontaneous cooperation. When that readi­ seem to find ourselves in the midst of a The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ness to cooperate with others in the perform­ presidential campaign, though neither party the request of the gentleman from Iowa? ance of these great problems disappears, then has yet nominated its candidate for the There was no objection. it will not be America. I deem it one of the office. Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, the great missions of the Republican Party to At stake in the contest will be more thari evening of April 17, 1956, it was my privi"'." keep alive, to help to grow, to enrich the idea public office, more than the elation of suc­ that every citizen must forever be eager to cess or the gloom ·of defeat, more even than lege to attend an important meeting of perform his obligations to the country when the fortunes of a great political party. · my political party and where I think I it is needed. Farmers, laborers, businessmen, Next November, America will decide the saw some significant things happening veterans, all parts of our American commu­ course our Republic shall take through a that will go down in history and pointed nity deserve the conce:rn and support of gov­ 4-year span- of inescapable problems and to as a desirable trend in political ernment in making their contribution to our mighty challenges; of many dangers for the activity. national well-being. timid anti the weak; of rewarding opportuni­ This meeting began, Mr. Speaker, as· a Finally, Mr. Speaker, may I m:;i.ke the ties for the courageous and wise. On that 4-year course-on the policies purely but respectable partisan affair, observation that the history and story that guide it, on the character and attitudes and it was reasonable to expect in this that we are pleased to call American is of those chosen to dttect it, on the spirit atmosphere that all speakers and par­ probably the most fascinating and chal­ which animates the Republic during it-de­ ticipants in the program should appeal to lenging of any system-ever given to man­ pends the continuance of our advance in the normal prejudices of party activity kind. This, in my opinion, is so because prosperity, the. strengthening of our secu­ and the normal appeals were made with from the very beginning our people, rity, the progress we shall make toward a one notable exception. That was when through its government and its many just peace among the nations. and varied undergirding influences, have My fellow Republicans, the campaign be­ President Eisenhower made his history­ fore us is concerned with those things which making presentation in which he demon­ been conscious of a peculiar destiny; count most-people and principles. strated that the title of politician and this is so because our people have seemed The campaign is concerned with people, statesmanship in their finest sense can to sense that upon them has been f o­ for the mission of our party is to help 167 go hand in hand. cused, as if by divine appointment, the million Americans build a nation stronger Mr. Speaker, as I reflect back in his­ hopes and aspirations of a large part of spiritually and materially. To describe the tory it seems that not since Lincoln's sec­ the human race; and, Mr. Speaker, it has nation I mean, permit me to quote myself:. ond inaugural address . and Cooper1s not failed, because throughout history "a nation whose every citizen has reason for we have had great men who set up sign .. bold hope, where effort is rewarded and pros.: Union speech have we heard remarks so perity -shared, where freedom expands and nonpartisan and yet so American at a posts pointing the way for the people of peace is ·secure." · purely political meeting. · their time-many· of· them here in the People are made in the image of God. Mr. Speaker, when in history have we Jialls of Congress-they are reflected in They are divinely endowed with aspirations heard the following at a. political the lives of the men whose pictures we and talents. Their political organizations meeting: see on our left and on our right. The must reflect this truth. Therefore, the Re­ Father of Our County must remind publican Party· must be inspired by a con­ Now, no party has a monopoly on brains or us each day of his Farewell Address, cern for the rights of every citizen regard• idealism or statesmanship. We-Republicans less of his station; that sets up no walls of and Democrats alike-are motivated by the and when we see Lafayette's picture we birth or creed; that ranks all men and women same loyalty to the flag; by the same devotion must be reminded of his great contribu­ of decency and good will as equal in their' to freedom and human dignity; by the same tion toward making this Government of dignity. high purposes for the Nation's security and the people a reality. The campaign ls concerned with principles its people's welfare. Within our hearts and We are reminded, too, of all the rich because they provide the only sound base for minds, in all things that are vital to the Re­ history of our country and that it is with policies and practices. Policies not ba~ed on public, we cannot be partisans. We are all virtuous contributions made by people principle retreat to expediency. They be­ Americans. But iu the practical pursuit of come-as we have seen them become in the national objectives we differ in our methods, that are remembered and become a part past-surrenders to pressure, bribes for sup­ in our traditions, in our philosophy of gov­ of our rich traditions, and since I feel port, escapes from responsibility. Because ernment's responsibilities. that the type of thing exemplified by our expediency is a betrayal of America's trust, President the evening of April 16 is a de­ the Republican Party in this campaign will What could be a better objective of sirable trend in politics that should be be, as always, dedicated and inspired by both our political parties than the encouraged by all who are in political principles, by political integrity. following? life, and because I sincerely believe that But an evident concern for people and an }listorians will note this as one of the incontestable concern for principles are not The campaign is coiice.rned with people, of themselves automatic guaranties of S\.\C• for the mission ()f_our party is to help 167 · great documents in the history of our cess in an election campaign. million Americans build a nation stronger country, I am asking that his remarks be These two elements must be demonstrated spiritually and materially. To describe the published. .fn a consistent program, understood by all Nation I mean; permit me to quote myselfi My fellow Republicans, it ls a grand feeling our people.· "A nation whose every citizen has reason ~or to know that l am among friends. As you Our party must be an organized crusade bold hope, where effort is rewarded and pros­ m,ay be aware, following any Presidential ad­ of men and women ·who preach and exem­ perity shared-, where freedom expands and dress, a flood of messages pour in at the plify our concern and dedication. Republi­ peace is secure." White House.'· Among. a very large group to­ can men and women must be tireless in win­ People are made in the image of God. day, I am glad to say preponderantly, over­ ning new friends to the party. They must be They are divinely endowed with aspirations whelmingly favorable, there were a few sustained by a high morale that ls rooted in and talents. Their political organizations sturdy souls who expressed themselves personal conviction. differently. To such a party any American could be must reflect this truth. Therefore, the Re­ One man from California started out, "I proud to belong. publican Party must be inspired by a con­ am disgusted." And he said, "Never a.gain I am. I think none of us can be a member cern for the rights of every citizen regardless will I vote for this party. To think that such of a meeting of this kind without sensing, at of his station; that sets up no walls of birth a party would allow itself to be led by a least subconsciously, something of our tra­ or creed; that ranks all men and women of weakling, persuaded by his business friends, ditions and the spirit of our first and greatest decency and good will as equal in their his rich business friends, to crucify the farm­ leader, Abraham Lincoln. One of the sim­ dignity. ers of the United States." He ended up by plest and greatest facts of his life was that 1956 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 6691 long before he ~came i>resi4~nt, he ~spoused ful in its wldesptead benefits, more depelid­ do lt by spontaneous cooperation. When a principle. He expressed it tl.rst publicly in able ·and more creative. ·. that readiness to cooperate with others in his speech of the divided house. He said, "I The Republican Party, by all its traditions. .the performance of these great problems dis­ do not expect a house to fall, bu.t it wm be­ ls committed to support. men's. aspirations appears, then it will not be America. I deem come all one or all the other." And ~:r:om and .convictions .as individual citizens. We it one of the- great missions of the. Republi­ that moment on, he became dedicated to one reject any attempt to treat ..them. merely as can Party, to. keep alive, to help to grow, to ideal, one principle: to serve this· country members. of· pressure groups or as serial num­ enrich the idea that every citizen must for­ with all his might, to pre5erve it. To pre­ bers in the files. of. a Government offtce.:; The ever be eager to perform his obligations to serve the dream and the vision of our found­ individual-in his God-given talents, in his the country when 1t ls. needed.. Farmers, ing fathers, well knowing that a c_ut-up limitless potential-is the source · of every laborers, businessmen, veterans, all parts of divided national existence on this continent advance in the material and intellectual good our American community deserve the con­ would be ruin for us all. of humanity. cern and support of government in making Everything he did from then on. the in:­ That fundamental principle in the Repub­ thek contribution to our national well-being. sults he took from his own Cabinet, the lican credo has a corollary-every American The sixth principle, as I see it, is: The pur­ sarcasm he endured, the way-lie was almost 1s equal before the law and the conscience pose of government fs to serve, never to abused by a general¥ to the great horror of his of Government. dominate. There has never been a better, aides. And he refused to resent it, saying In the philosophy of the Republican Party, clearer explanation of this principle than merely, "If the man will win a b_attle! I will the role of Government requires a faithful one I have often quoted from Abraham Lin­ hold. his horse." He dedicated himself heart stewardship of the heritage- received from coln. "The legitimate object of govern­ and soul, and completely, to one thing: the our forebears, that heritage is to be trans­ ment," he said, "is to do for a community good of the United States of America, Vfhlch mitted-enriched and enlarged-to our of people, whatever they need to have done, was its unity. descendants. Heedful to the wishes and but cannot do, at all, or cannot, so well do, Even at that day, as he pondered the great the needs of the day, the Republican Party for themselves-in their separate, and in­ Emancipation Proclamation, it was done as a wlll not be false to itself by despo111ng our dividual capacitieS'. But in all that people war measure, for its infiuence on keeping this 'children for a present, transitory advantage. can indiVidually do as well for themselves. Nation one. . So believing, all of us must work to have government ought not to interfere." A party which in all its gatherings. senses, the American people more clearly know th9 hovering in a room such as this, that spirit, And here ls the seventh principle I sug­ principles of the Republican program fo~ gest: To stay free we must stay strong. that history, that tradition, can never go far America tomorrow, next year-a generation Though we must recognize that peace can­ from the beaten path. Dedication to service, hence. · not be gained by arms alone, yet we must not to self-glorification. · Now these principles, to my thinking, are gird ourselves with sufficient military I am often asked why I ~ntered political several in number. They are implicit in the strength to discourage resort to war and to life as .a Republican. personal testament I have just made to you. Now no party has a monopoly on brains or protect our Nation's vital interests; more­ idealism or statesmanship. We-Republi­ But I should like to present some of them to over, we must help to strengthen the col­ cans and Democrats alike-'are .motivated by you explicitly-for your examination, or cor­ lective defense of free natfons against those the same loyalty to the flag; by the same de­ rection, or amplification. who would seek their ends through aggres­ votion to freed.om and human dignity; by The first is this: The individual is of su­ sion. Our own and our allied strength must the same high purposes for the Nation's secu­ preme importance. You, your family, your be spiritual, intellectual, scientific, material. rity and its people's welfare. Within our neighbors, the people down the street-peo­ The eighth, and in this day requiting special emphasis, is: Under God, we espouse hearts and minds, 1n all ~ings that are vit~l ple everywhere-every American of every race to the Republic, we cannot be partisans. and creed should enjoy equally the rights the cause of freedom and justice and peace We are all Americans. But in the pra.ctical and privileges ·of free citizens in a free for all peoples. The peace we want wm be the product of understanding and agreement pursuit of national ob)ectiv~s. we differ ~ nation. our methods, in our traditions, in our phi:­ And the second: The spirit of our people and law among nations. It will re:flect en­ losophy of government's responsibilities. is the strength of our Nation. The ultimate lightened self-interest. It will foster thb I am a Republican, because I share our values of mankind are spiritual. These val.,. concentration of human energy for the ad;. par.ty's ·deep-·lying trust in what freemen can ues include liberty, human dignity, oppor­ vancement of human standards in all the areas of mankind's material and spiritual do--a f:undamental trust in the ~ature and tunity, and equal rights and justice. These capab111ty of individual human beings. . are our heritage and birthright. our com­ life. I believe that the Republican platform, I believe the Republican Party, in its mon efforts to preserve and strengthen t~em methods and traditions and broad philos- muet be ·inspired by things of the spirit-by presented to America at the national con:. ophy: - national pride,· by self-respect, by an eager­ vention in August, w111 ln substance be the Offers the best hope of preserving the self­ ness to meet our responsibilities as freemen, expression of these principles applied to the relia-nce- and vigorous independence of in­ by humility in our recognition of the debt we human problems of today and tomorrow. owe generations of men and women who It w111 therefore be a program for the good dividual Americans; of all Americans, whether they work in field Best serves the Nation ~n the search for built this Nation. peace ·with justice and freedom; The third, in my opinion, is: No section or factory or office. Faith in America and Best fosters a competitive enterprise econ1" or group in America can permanently prosp_er in God Will be its inspiration. Courage and unless all groups and sections so prosper. optimism will hearten it. Integrity will omy whose purpose ls a wider prosperity characterize it. The welfare of all the people, fairly shared; . More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agri­ culture, happier living for every family, peace the security of the Republic, the peace of Best keeps economic decision-making in the world Will belts objectives. the hands of the people and out of the hands and plenty for all people-these call for a It is our conviction that, for Americans of Government; strong, growing, private-enterprise economy who cherish eternal principle and high pur• Best answers the concerns of. people for in which there are ever-increasing opportu­ pose, that document will chart the path to the meeting of their human needs; nities. a better America, a Nation ever growing in Best assures our children, and their chil­ The fourth principle is surely this: Gov­ material and in spiritual strength. The dren's children, the heritage of an America ernment must have a heart as well as a head. Republican platform will be a program of rich in all the resources of nature, dynamic We must concern ourselves with basic human principle around which all Americans­ in great traditions and. ideals and purposes. problems. Americans are committed to the Republicans. Independents, and sound­ I so believe because the Republican Party alleviation of misfortune and distress among thinking Democrats-<:an rally. We welcome remains true to its heritage. their fellow citizens. Government should them all. Our party was born to vindicate the equal increase and strengthen personal and family Tomorrow you return to your homes in dignity of all men, their_ equal right to life, secµrity without impairing the self-respect, every. State and Territory of the Republic, liberty, and the pursuit of .happiness. The the initiative, and the incentive of the in­ and on the islands of the Caribbean. You dedication of its earliest days still animates dividual to provide for his own. go as leader&", ehosen to lead by those who our party in this age when worldwide cor­ The fifth: Courage in principle, cooperation know best your fitness for the responsibil­ rosion eats away at freedom, and justice and in practice makes freedom positive. Qur peo­ ities of leadership. To help prepare your­ opportunity for men. - ple's eagerness to corppete is matched only by selv.es for the campaign ahead, you have, . The Republican Party has fostered the de·­ their willingness to cooperate in a common during the past 2 days, talked over the pro~ velopment of an economy, dynamic in its cause. lems and the anxieties of our time, the power to release men's energies. Vast, un­ A great Frenchman defined liberty as the strategy and the tactics of the campaign, the fettered production for vast, unfettered con­ right of self-discipline. In a nation such priorities of your various tasks and missions. sumption is the economic expression of our as ours, indeed in any social order, there is Permit me a word of counsei to ·you on political belief: All wbo work to produce a great need for performance of certain jobs the eve of youi ·departure. I offer my , ob:. should share equitably in the fruits.of their in which people must .work together. In servation.8 wfth real temerity, because I want labor. · .other forms of_government this group work to talk a moment about leadership and or._ Today, under the policies of the Republican is p:coduced. under the orders of a dictator, gan1zation, -and r realize tbat every individ­ Party, our econotny is :more- immense than or ot a central ·government that ·ts all-power­ ual in this room has had real experience in ever before in its productivity, more bounti- ful. Free government gives us the right to these fields: 6692 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE April 19 You have already entered a vigorous cam.. Moreover, we must convince them that it · It is understandable that in a political paign, and the first point to remember is: is the party in which their own qualities of year the Republican Party wants to pre­ There is no such thing as an easy battle. leadership Will be recognized and employed. tend to be a friend of labor-no matter The purpose of the present battle is to Win So shall we go before the country with a the hearts and minds of men and women­ program that is concerned with those things how many things it does to workers in Republican recruits to assure the party's which count most-peoples and principles. other years. Let us examine the pose. right to carry on the business and functions · Let us stand on a record that reflects only Why is it up to us, in the second session of government. desire of the Republican Party to serve of the 84th Congress, to "do something" Above all, it is our hope to appeal to youth America honestly and earnestly, a record swiftly about legislation for the benefit because, once won to our side, the young that is unempeachable in its concern for of workers. Mr. Speaker, the principal citizen will, each year throughout a life people and principles. reason is that Secretary Mitchell, for much longer than most of us will have, We will win if, from the moment of your all his soft soap. now, did not have any attract other men and women to the party. arrival home, you work to build a crusading organization of inspired morale, determined comprehensive program of his own until The good fighter takes nothing for granted. less than a year ago. It is not enough that you march under the to interpret Republican principles, and the Republican banner-a banner of which we Republican program to all tne people. He has been in office since the autumn are so proud because of the ideals and the Victory will be the product. of 1953, but it wasn't until May of. 1955 .principles for which it stands. You must Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for your that some of the bills in what he now look well to your organization and to the kind attention. calls the President's program were leaders you will assemble to ~irect its efforts. recommended. It was not until this Many long years in the service of our OPERATION FANTASTIC year that others were recommended. country brought me into contact with men SQme of his reports, needed before sensi.. whose qualities as leaders were uns_urpass.ed. The SPEAKER. Under previous order .ble action can be taken on the basis of From them I learned many valuable lessons of the House, the gentleman from Illinois facts, arrived only recently. Some of in organization. Among their immediate as­ ·[Mr. PRICE] is recognized for 15 minutes. sociates-that is, among the generals and the them have not arrived yet. high-ranking staff officers-the great leaders Mr. PRICE. Mr. Speaker, we have re­ There is something a little laughable surrounded themselves with the wisdom that cently observed a remarkable spectacle. about a solemn listing of 9 specific bills comes from long study, from work, and ex­ The Republican Party is suddenly trying as Mr. Eisenhower's labor program. perience. But they made certain, those to picture itself as a great and good These bills, fundamentally, are nothing great leaders did, that each lower echelon of friend of labor. Gentlemen from the leadership would in its composition, respond more than housekeeping measures. The Republican Party are complaining that purpose of most is laudable, but they are to the need for youth, for the idealism, the we Democrats have not done enough for vigor, the enthusiasm of youth-in carrying working people, and that working people not measures to arouse the unbounded out the hard and detailed work always nec­ enthusiasm of working people. They are essary to victory. are going to punish us terribly at the measures to make slight if desirable im­ As long as I am back in my military life polls. provements in programs long ago put for a second, I should like to observe one This election-year maneuver might be into effect by Democratic administra .. thing about leadership that one of the great .termed "Operation Fantastic." But it is tions. They blaze no new trails. They has said-Napoleon. He said, the great lead­ being spearheaded by the Secretary of er, the genius in lea.dership, is. the man who Labor, Mr. Mitchell, a personally amiable pioneer no new ground. can do the average thing when everybody man in an exceedingly tough spot in a Let us take a look at some of the things else is going crazy. Republican administration. It · has the the gentleman from Pennsylvania CMr. I think this is important in a political ScoTT] did not mention in running down campaig:p., because I recall the incident one full cooperation of the Republican Na .. tional Committee, which in its publicity his list o{ measures to define Mr. Eisen.. .night when a great many people on my train, bower's labor program. and certainly half of California, were sud­ pictures Mr. Mitchell as an excessively denly upset, and they saw the election lost diligent and effective Cabinet officer. It . He did not mention amendment of the in California, therefore the Nation, .and .is echoed in this House from the other Taft-Hartley Act. Why not? ·Because things were ·going to the bad place in a side of the aisle. the belated Eisenhower proposals on hand basket. ·Just before the Easter recess the gen .. Taft-Hartley amendment were muddled One man walked into the room and he tleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. ScoTT] and inadequate and were emphatically .said to this group of very excited people, took the floor for a speech on what he .rejected by the Congress, and Secretary "You might as well go on home, not even .Mitchell has not had a new idea on the · your worries and your fears and your trepf­ blandly labeled the "President's pro­ dations can lose California." And, he said, gram" for the benefit of workers. He ran subject since. "I know because I a.m going to speak for down the list of nine little bills and com­ Mr. Mitchell, indeed, appears not to the Republican ticket, and I have asked the plained that we Democrats had not be allowed to have any independent ideas committee to se:p.d me into 17 other States, :moved ·fast enough. He piously ex­ .on this subject. Secretary of Commerce not here, I am not needed." And he was pressed a political hope that what he Weeks has more influence in .this admin­ _right. called the "reluctant Democratic leader .. istration on the subject of Taft-Hartley So if you can just keep your head when ,than Mr. Mitchell has. So in a fulsome the pressures are on, that is one of the matks ship" would "encourage" hearings on of the real leader. some of these bills. He promised men .. declamation on Mr. Eisenhower's so .. Moreover, the best leaders never lost an acingly that unless we got these precise called labor program, our Republican opportunity to visit their own front-line little bills passed "American wage earners friends find it too embarrassing to men­ men-to see, to learn, but above all to es­ ·wm judge this Democratic Congress as tion Taft-Hartley. tablish that spirit of comradeship that would the foot-dragging, do-nothing Congress." Th~ gentleman from Pennsylvania did withstand any temporary reverse. The next day another volley was fired not mention expansion of minimum wage So it must be with any organization· that coverage, to protect more than 20 million strives to influence millions of people into by the gentleman from New Jersey [Mr. a particular line of action. The wisdom of FRELINGHUYSEN]. This gentleman gave . workers now left unprotected by the $1 experience is necessary, and this you pro­ some statistics on an increase in indus­ an hour minimum wage we established vide, each for your own organization. But trial accidents and demanded action on last year in amending the Fair Labor it is not alone sufficient. the President's program including a Standards Act. To weld your organization into an effec­ piddling $2 million for grants to the The President talks about expansion tive instrument for a political campaign, States for industrial safety programs. and Secretary Mitchell says he favors it. each of you must visit and must intimately I assume it was not a coincidence that But there is not any administration bill know those who, under your direction, are on the subject. carrying the daily burdens of the flgh t. · the gentleman from New Jersey put his Moreover. to attract the young recruit, the statistics into the RECORD at almost the Last year, indeed, Mr. Mitchell came mechanism of leadership that you set up exact time Secretary of Labor Mitchell up here and recommended that the Con­ must itself search out and employ the young. was releasing them at a press conference gress study the desirability of expanding Our aim must be to convince every Ameri­ downtown. And once again we Demo .. minimum-wage coverage to those now can newly arriyed at votiJ?.g ~ge, that the crats were menaced with the threat of left unprotected. He did not recom­ Republican Party, by its principles and by labor's retaliation unless we approved mend anything. He did not ask us to the quality and .appeal of its personnel, is the piddling $2 million; once again we do anything specific. He did not throw the party through which young citizens' were exhorted to act in behalf of the the weight of the White House behind aspirations for their country can be achieved, President's program. a measure. · "1956. CONGRESSIONAL: RECORD- HOUSE .6693 This year he has no.t even asked us to ers-and on that subject the administra- I might suggest there that the name study expansion of coverage. He will tion is silent. had better be changed to students for not say in press conferences what he Decent Federal standards of unem- · Detrimental Action- would like to see done. ployment compensation would benefit retracted their bid under the prompting _of So the Republicans in. muttering about almost all workers in interstate com.. the parent organization, Americans for Mr. Eisenhower's so-called labor pro .. merce, perhaps thirty or thirty-five Democratic Action- gram have to leave out minimum wages million-and on this subject the Eisen- Here again I would change that name and expansion of coverage as well as hower administration is silent. · Taft-Hartley. Unpacking the NLRB would benefit to Americans for Detrimental Action- There is a third subject the gentle .. workers both organized and unorgan­ another organization on the Pennsylvania man from Pennsylvania did .not men .. campus· invited· Hiss to speak there. But ized-but nothing is being don~. because this was a group which caters to tion-amendment of the unemployment Amendment of the social-security laws unpopular radicals, Hiss declined. Quite compensation law to set minimum Fed­ to liberalize them would benefit millions obviously he- eral standards below which no State of women workers, their retired hus­ could fall.- bands, and the totally and permanently Meaning Hiss- Such Federal standards have been re .. disabled-and on this subject the Eisen­ wishes to regain the respectability he lost quested repeatedly by labor leaders and hower administration opposes liberaliza­ when he was convicted for perjury. In this expert witnesses from unions testifying tion. sense he is "using" Princeton. But so did on the deficiencies of some State sys .. ESTES KEFAUVER and Billy Graham. We have The nine little bills are not a labor no reason to condemn a man's desire to terns. But a program for minimum Fed.. program. They are simply housekeeping further his own interests. eral -standards would be a pioneering bills advanced to cover up the fact that thing-it would plow fresh ground. all the big things, the important things, I read that to the House because it in­ And, despite election-year oratory, we have been ldt out. dicates the type or° thinking that is goiI)g get no plowing of unbroken ground from Are the Republicans trying to kid us on in one of our outstanding universities. President Eisenhower and Secretary or kid themselves? Are they hoping to I daresay this type of thinking is not iso­ Mitchell in the field of labor legislation. silence us about the fact that Secretary lated, either. But to begin with, we Let us look at a couple of other fac­ of Commerce Weeks has. more to say note that Hiss was invited to speak else­ tors that might reasonably be included about labor policy under-President Eisen­ where but Hiss would not go because he in a genuine labor program or a gen­ hower. than Secretary Mitchell? . They did not want to speak where "unpopular uine program for the general welfare. are obviously trying to befuddle the radicals" spoke. Apparently he con­ This House last year passed a bill voters. It is a good trick if you can get ceives himself to be a popular radical. amending the social-security laws to pro .. away with it. I do not think they can. This is the first time I have ever known, vide pensions for disabled workers at I think, in the history of man where a the age of 50, to lower the retirement person w:tio has betrayed his country can age of women workers and the eligi­ ALGER HISS AND PRINCETON attract~ crowP, ill that country, a crowd bility of widows for pensions. That bill UNIVERSITY ·· of admirers, a crowd of people who seem . is now pending in Senate committee. to feel that -betrayal is the art of the And what is the Eisenhower adminis­ The SPEAKER. Under previous or­ day. So because Mr. Hiss was too par­ tration~s attitude? The administration der of the House, the gentleman from ticular where he would go, the students is against it. Secretary Folsom testified New Jersey [Mr. Tu?4ULTY] is recog­ had to offer him the great Princeton against it. nized for 15 minutes; · University as a forum where the Conti­ ·secretary Folsom has to reverse, as Mr. TtJMuLTY. Mr. Speaker, rise nental Congress met hundreds of years an Eisenhower official, certain attitudes today to speak again on the subject on ago. he had expressed years ago as a pri.. which I addressed the House a few days I referred to this editorial, which is vate citizen. As a private citizen he fa­ ago. That is on the invitation which generally written in that stuffy univer­ vored lowering the retirement age for the American Whig-Cliosophic Debating sity style so prevalent these days among women workers and favored disability Society of extended the so-called eggheads, and I read from benefits. · But now that he has joined to Alger Hiss. He is being invited by it again: what the gentleman from Pennsylvania that debating society to address the stu.. Whig-Clio's motives for inviting Hiss mi:i,y CMr._ScOTT] wants us to consider the pro.­ dents on the Meaning of Geneva. be open to question. It is well known that labor Eisenhower administration, he is I am not going to repeat what I said the organization does not invite speakers against them. · last week, but I did think the House unless it feels they will draw crowds. Usual­ In discussing the so-called adminis .. would be interested in some of the in­ ly, these speakers have vital viewpoints to formation whic;h has developed since express. If Whig-Clio invited Hiss to speak tration labor program, the gentleman here simply for sensationalism, we would obviously felt, also, that it would not be that talk. I have before me the Daily have to censure them- discreet to mention the Eisenhower anti .. Princetonian, which is a , labor packing of the National Labor Re.. published at Princeton, under date of This is important- lations Board by spokesman of big busi­ Thursday, April 12. In this editorial we but since Hiss is a man with opinions of ness. This packing and its results were are told that: great interest on international . affairs, we authoritatively documented just .before Whig-Clio-- cannot legitimately condemn them. the recess by the senior Senator from So that we now have the picture ofHiSs Oregon, Mr. MORSE. When the Eisen­ Which is the name of the debating so .. ciety- · coming before the university as a man hower apologists speak in this House, the who has "great interest in international subject simply .is not mentioned. was not obligated by any consideration of affairs," and whose "opinions cannot be Mr. Speaker, I suggest that the nine free speech. to invite Hiss to come here. But once the invitation had been extended and condemned.'' In other words, we are little bills conjured up in a package as now being led to believe this man was the alleged Eisenhower labor program accepted, a policy reversal would imply Princeton's acceptance of the opinion that just guilty of some little peccadillo. are not a labor program at all. Could it be that the student who wrote We are told that one would benefit Hiss was indeed different. He may be a maybe 650,000 workers, another 1 million symbol, but he is still entitled to his rights. this editorial has so little regard for his No matter how strong the criticism~ we must workers. country that he can still think of Hiss as not forsake this ideal; both for our personal someone whose opinion is of great im­ But realistic amendment of Taft-Hart.. integrity and for Princeton's reputation. ley would benefit all 18 million union portance and which cannot be legiti­ Alger Hiss · has had many invitations to mately condemned? . members and. 18 -million-other workers speak, throughout the country. He is not who-would have a better chance for col­ at a loss for a place to-air his views. Thus I can recall when I went to school I lective bargaining-and on that subject far, he has accepted only two -of these invi­ remember reading something from Sir the administration is silent; tations-Whig-Clio's ·and Swarthmore's. Walter Scott. I just thought I would Expansion of minimum wage coverage When the Students !or Democratic Action read it again. That is not so long ago, could benefit more than 20 million work- at Swarthmore- either, and I can recall reading· it. 6694 . ;CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-·· . HOUSE April"19 Breathes Ulere the man.. with soul' ,so dead, conscious, active, and:importalitmember -Mr. 'TUMULTY.. lie is :addressing Who never to himself hath .said,. .. '.Illis is my of the Soviet conspiracy. He betrayed them ·on -the ·meaning of Geneva; the · own, my natlve land!" ali those who reposed trust in. him. · He meaning of the conference held between Whose heart bath ne'er within blm burn'd is still part of that conspiracy so far as President Eisenhower and Bulganin. .As .home his footst.eps he hatb turn"d, · .From waud.eringona:farelgn strand? we know. and this attempt to rehabili- Mr~ GROSS~ 1 guess he was out of the If such there breathe, go, m:aTk h1m well; tate him, as the editorial pai.pts out. is penitentiary-at that time, but he was not For him no minstrel .r.aptures swell; a deliberate attempt. In my opinion, it 11.t Geneva, was he? High tbough his tltl-es4 -proud bls name, is a start fo.r him to make a comeback Mr. TUMULTY. He was not at Boundless his ·wealth as wish-ean 'Clalm, · m that he can :still advance the -cause of Geneva. He was perhaps out of the Despite those titles, power. and pelf, .atheistic communism by using the uni- penitentiary on conditional rel-ease at The wretch, concentred. all 1n .self, versity as a backdrop of respectability. the time. Incidentally, while he was on Living,..shall forfeit :r.a.tr .renown. Y.ou know we have the Congressional f was tortured in such a "fashion that your architect who put the Russians in con­ the Princeton Aquinas Foundation, has hair would stand on e.nd if you heard trol of the United Nations and thereby invited Willard Edwards of the Wash­ him ten what they did to him. Yet, . assured that -0rganization that it would ington staff of the Chicago Daily News these kid§, these Katzerrjammer .strip- be a failure before it .ever got into to speak Aprl1 .25. He is going to .speak lings, as I call them, -aTe going out of .operati.on. on the meaning of Alger lliss. And their way to bring Hiss, who is deter- .Mr. TUMULTY. I cannot guess on what happens"? 'Ilnmediately there ls mined to destroy everything that their the devious twisted mind of a traitor, organized "the ·veterans in Princeton," university stands for. to their campus but if It would support .and advance the an organization of some 80 .students. who and there irnowingty -permit him to use cause -0f the Soviet Union I am .sure he are veterans of all branches oI the serv­ the Ivy Towers and the great tradition would .advocate lt. ice. They are presenting a petition to and culture of Princeton University so .Mr. WITHROW. Will the gentleman the Dai]y Princetonian, the campus th'at he might slowly but surely advance yield? , newspaper in which they defend the Hiss the cause of this rountry's destruction. Mr. TUMULTY. I yield. invitation and attack tbe 1egi-On and tbe It is not ju.st a childish prank. It is not · .Mr. 'WITHROW. I was under the im­ VFW for interference with I reed om of one of those g-0ldfish-swaliowing stunts pression that .Alger - Hl~ had lost his speech. This petition would censure that these students indulge in. Someone citizenship. .both the Veterans of Foreign Wars and else is' behind it. I do not know wb9, Mr. TUMULTY. I would assume he the American Legion ~f citizenship. I themselves by their interference with an across, because yoa can .see the oogin- honestly do not know. T.he inference American citizen being allowed to ex­ ning .of the old technique. That is the gathered from this new.s article ls to press his views in pub1ic before an audi­ -0ld Communist technique starting again. make him to appear to be .a. normal ence... "'We"--,so the petitioner says­ Now, who in the university? As Father citizen like you and me. 1f he has not "feel we are mature enough to judge any Rigney said the other day, one Commu.- lost his citizenship it .should be taken argument 'On its own merits." . nist in the country is one too' many; be- away from him. • because unless we learn This American citizen_:._meaning cailse the moment one is there they or- · to get .rid of that kind of man wllo would Hiss-how he clings to citizenship when ganize; stealthlly. They organize in destroy us, we will be destr-0yed. it serves his purpose. But how disloyal such fashion that before you know it the Mr. WITHROW. I .agree with you. he w.as to it when he had the opportunity country is gone; and this country can Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, to serve his .country~ N.ow the propo­ be taken. I am surprised at the men in will the gentleman yield?' sition is simply this. Are we gettirig our university circles who seem to be Mr. TUMULTY. I yield. in our universities the type of teachers unconscious of what is g.oing .cm. Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Was he not con- that we have a right to expect? Are the It might be a good idea to declare a victed of a felony? universities of our country .somewhat moratorium on some types of education Mr. TUMULTY. Yes. responsible for this situation? How can for a while, so that some of our students Mr. CUNNINGHAM. · Then that au.to- you explain that young American -citi­ can recover from the type of training matieally deprives him of .his citizen­ zens who will some day grow up to be they are getting. Is it unreasonable for ship. Members of this House or-, perhaJ)s, me to ask that the university not aid Mr. TUMULTY. Yes; its privileges. Members of the other body, or hold some this man Hiss in his plan? Is there Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Does the gentle- important governmental post, how to something peculiar about an American man know whether any steps have been explain their desire to preserve the saying, "Please do . not advance the taken to restore his citizenship? 'right" of this man to address them. I destruction of this country"? Who only . Mr. TUMULTY. No; but I am con­ say if he wanted to go before the House have prais·e, only have pats on the back, vinced that is what they would 1ike to Committee on Un-American Activities only have compliments for those who are do. Hiss is more concerned for his repu­ and there recant and there tell us the cowardly betrayers? A betrayer is the tati-on than the students are for the uni­ truth and there tell us to whom he gave worst conceivable type of animal. If he versity's. He will not talk where the our secrets, then I could understand that were a gunman you would have a chance soapbox orators ho1d forth. He wants to there mig·ht be some merit to it. But if you could draw first, but the man wno pick out the nice places. . - . - . why should American students go out of gets up and takes advantage of all that ~r. CUNNINGHAM. ls that not a their way to hurt our country? I sup­ is good in your nature to impress you and buildup to apply for restoration of full pose· it is old-fashioned and somewhat then turns you over to those who would citizenship? of a cliche to say, "I love the country­ destroy you ·is the worst I can think of. Mr.· TUMULTY. Yes; t think it is. ! love it dearly and devotedly.'' I can­ · Mr_ GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the He wants, I think, to ultimately be par- not understand' why anyone ' would vol­ gentleman yield'? doned. · untarily and intentionally try to aid arid Mr. TUMULTY. I yield. The SPEAKER. The time of the gen.. assist Mr. Hiss. The impression seems Mr. GROSS. · What is the ·subject on tlemari has expired. · . to be .that he has paid his debt. What which he is addressing these eggheads. · "t the Princeton- fam~ !Y. these -speakers nave.. vital-viewpoints to bama.··and South C'a,rolirilf. have a .right lly of the in9id~nt, -whether one a-grees witlJ,· express. If Whig-CUo -invi~ed lliss to spea:k to know when they. are buying Japanese Whig-Clio'.s original judgment or not. here simply for sensationalism, we would t til d ' · · · · .. - J. W ." M. have fo censure them. But since Hiss is a ex e goo s. · .. · - · man with opinions of. great interest on in.: I just wanted to rise here today iri AN' EtiITOJ!.IAL t ernati . ona l a ff a i rs, we cannot l eg itima t e l y defen.se ·of my -State'"' and the State of condemn them. · Alabama for trying to protect .. one o~ Alger Hiss ls a symbol. A major1ty of the more level-headed critics their basic industries. I say again it is So Princeton "has learned from newspapers~ proclaim that they have no objection to absolutely ridiculous for any country~ radio commentators, and the· swelling fiood anything that Hiss may write. (The first under any kind of a trade agreement, to of letters, telegrams, and telephone calls from published statement of his views on the Yal~~ alumni and friends Of the university. We Conference is now on sale at the university import products that are in surp}us there. hear that by \Pei:mltting.Hiss to speak here store.) . It is bis connection with Prince~ I ask Mr. Dulles today if he would insist on April 26, we are condoning a convicteq ton which they deplore. we repeat · that~ on Brazil.importing raw coffee from some perjurer or worse. despite public misinterpretation, Alger 'Hiss other South American country? _Of Princeton is not condoning, defending, .o~ has no connection with Princeton. We are cours_e, he would not. Then, .why should; giving sanction to .the .actions of Alger Hiss. not :a haven fqr soiled. public .figures . .. We are he insist· on the United States of Ameri(1a We are a university, not a supreme court. · t h t We will hear his.views en international affairs =~~~erely interested in w~at he man as o jmporting textiles ·or glassware or some .and weigh them as such. · N·o CONNECTION wrra PRINCETON pf the other things that injure the econ- The nature of the criticism pouring into omy of West Virginia and Pennsylvania the administration has surprised many peo-:- In its .persistent refusal to deprive Whig:- when we have those things in surplus pie. Not only crackpots and emotionalists; Clio of its -responsibility -by overruling the tilready? It i~ just simply ridiculous .. but also responsible and level-headed m.en invitation, the university administ:i:ation has I have raised that point before and the have repeatedly warned us of the potentially shown faith in both its undergraduates an~ 'damaging effect that Hiss' appearance .here its own convictions. If outside sources have State-Department has -not answered it, cbuld have on Prince-ton's reputation. This a distorted opin!on of the Hiss iweecl\, there nor have the membership here Who favor is certainly a conslderatlon. Since President is no.reason why Princeton should succumb hnport~tion of Japanese textile goods~ Dodd's_ statem.ent .has been universally mis• to the pressures of that distortion . .We owe OAT!' and OTC. They do not insist on interpreted by the press and radio, everyon~ e. debt of gratitude to 9ur admintstr.at.ion for India importing tea; they do not insist believes that Princeton, not Whig-Clio, in- its' courage in an ~xpl0sive situatio:Q where · on the Malay States ii;nportlng' raw vited Hiss here to speak. No amount of de.:- any alternative means damage. ~ubber~ ~et they insist on bring_ing Jap• nial will change this prevailing o,pinion. . - Princeton already has the stigma of being anese textile goods into .South Carolina~ Princeton, including faculty · members, ad• powerfully infiuenced by its alumni body~ · · . mini-stratlon, and everyone from the youngest it is true that- we have one of the most where our textile mills have been forced freshman to the oldest alumnus, .is impli,;. loyal and active alum.ni podies in 'the Nation. to ·_ Curtail production throwing many ca.teversial radical. He is a per- ratio. We feel mature enough -to be· able to. a~kmg us to ~mport raw cotton, or maybe jurer. And though many do not state it in ~ar and - judge his views on- their own oil and canned beef into Texas,. Mr~ so many· words, they think he is a traitor. merits. That the man in_question is .a sym,- Speak€r. · : · · · : They declare themselves in favor of free bol of treason to some I?eopJe ls _unfort'l!na.te, . Again, ladies and gentlemen of- the .speech, but announce that Hiss is different. since it calls our sincerity i_nto question_. House, I am in favor of .more ·trade .but The logical extreme of this attitude implies This should not be powerful enough to de~ I disagree wit_h the adlninistration of tha't anyohe with' ·an· unsa:voTy : laackgi-ounu stroy our self-confidence.. ~ ~ . our Reciprocal Trade Act I do think could be classed as "different," and denied Whatever happens now,· tP,ere will be dam- ho ht t · · · · . ' his rights as a citizen. age. If Hiss appears here, many wm feel · · wever, we OU? 0 ~rotect DU! ~asic; Whig-Cllo was .not obligated by any con- that Princeton is def.ending a perjurer at fµnc;ia;me~tal - .md.ustrie§, · particularly .sideration of-free· speech to invite Hiss to least, a traitor at worst. If the bid is re~ those which have products · in surplus. come here. But once the .invitation had beeri tracted, even more will feel that Princeton is Let us have real reeip:rocity by selling:in extended and :accepted, a policy reversal -a university without the courage of her con'- foreign countries our vast· amounts of would imply Princeton•s acceptance of the "Vi.ct-ions. We must choose the lesser of two textiles and by continuing to import such opinion tha't Hiss was indeed diffei-ent. He evils. products as rubber. may be a symbol, but he is still entitled to Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to read some~ his rights. No matter how strong the th· criticism, we must not forsake this ideal, THE MARKING OF IMPORTED mg here which appeared in the Chi- both. .for our personal 1ntegri·ty and for GOODS cag~ :Daily Drovers Journal and was car.: Princeton':s %eputation. ~ ~ r~e~ py _:the Lancaster Livestock Bulletin The SPEAKER. Under previous or- f La t Alger Hiss has 'had many invitations t0 o ncas er, Pa., ·~ the largest cattle f>Peak, throughout the country. He is not at der of the House, the gentleman from !ll~rket _ -e~st of Chicago, where many :of a loss for a place to air his views. Thus far, South Carolina [Mr. DORN] ls recognized my farmers sell their cattle. This ar• .he haa .accepted ~only two of these invita- for 5 minutes. ticle proves .how utte.rly rid,iGulou.s the tions-Whig-C'lio's and Swarthmore's. When Mr. DORN · of South· Carolina. Mr. !l-dministration-0f reciprocal trade is be- the Students for Democratic Action at Speak(}r. I noticed in.the press the other · - · - Swarthmore retracted their bid under the day that the Secretary of State, M~ coming. .Noy; listen to this:. . prompting .of the parent organization, Amer- Dulles,. was a -little bi.t shocked and ex- . Those canned hams from Poland now ap­ .icans for Democratic Action, another organ- d h' t t J b th pearing in Corn Belt grocery stores represent ization on the P.ennsylvanla campus invited presse is regre 5 0 apan ecause e the height of irony. It is meat snatched Hiss to speak there. But because this was a. State of South Carolina and the State of :away from the Polish people-who love pork group which .caters to unpopular radicals, Alabama had passed· State laws requir.:. 11.nd be~f, but ,.,tr:Ul.St satlsfy :.tllem:se1ves witli .Hiss declined. Qulte 'Obviously he -wishes ing that some of. these ·goods which are -canned fish- instead-and exported to ' the to regain the respectabllity he lost when he being inipo-rted from-Japan to be :labele industry~ the organization does not invite 'spea-k-ers nothing shocking ~bout that. I charge~ ;whlcl:l has beeI_I decre~d tli~ thlµg· to do by 'Unless it feels they wm. draw crowds. Usual- Mr. Speaker, that t,he people of Ala- their Soviet overlords. , 1956 CONGRESSIONAL :RECORD_-HOUSE They want to· get over into industry so · THE FARM PROGRAM wiped out a propos~d $25,000 ceiling o:i;i 'that they can conquer ~he world. .. And The · SPEAKER. Under previous or:- ·price support loans and paym~nts. Here we are helping them to do it. . · der -of the House, the gentleman from again, was the bill in the interest of th~ ~ f arn.ily farm? Certainly not. so Poland deprives its people of the pork .Michigan r~. ~o~J is recognized fqr Obviously for these and other reasons they dearly love and, sends i1; off to pork-ric~ America; where hog raisers are being forced 10 minutes. · · ·l: could not support such a bill-one . to cut production in order to revive a market Mr. KNOX. Mr. Speaker; for the past ·which promised to. do untold harm to the , floundering in the heavy seas of overproduc­ -3 months we have had the great debate ~farmers of my district. ·tion. In the first 2 months of this year, 34 :on the farm bill. In January President . Let me emphasize, however, that I am percent more canned pork than in the same :Eisenhower made a plea for a strong not rubberstamping everything that 2 months last year came to this country .effective, and workable farm program has been said by leaders of my party. from Poland. February canned-pqrk import.s . that would give farmers an opportunity ·After all, I have actively farmed most of from Poland were 94 percent greater than in ,to profit and prosper with the rest of ·my life . . 1 have a mind of my own; per­ February a year ago. During al_! _of 195~, , the economy. · - - · sonal convictions born of a lifetime of Poland sent us 13 percent more canned hams The heart of this program was a dy:- ·firsthand farm experience. than during 1954. So it seems evident that :namic forward-lciokirig soil bank which I believe for example that the domes:. the program of exporting park to the Uriited . was the foundation for farm prosperity -tic parity program for wheat and rice States is being s~epp.ed up by Poland. · . not only for this. year but for years to ·should be approved. It was in the farm I want to emphasize again, Mr. Speak,.­ , come. It was designed to help all farm- ·bill but opposed by the administration. er, Communist Poland. Attention, M:r. . ers~airymen, beef raisers, fruit grow- :I believe too that the present d·airy pro:. Dulles, under your reciprocal trade, now . ers, as well as growers of cotton, wheat, ·gram has not been nearly as successful you want· the Iowa pork farmer to buy ·rice, peanuts, corn, and tobacco. What as it should be. I believe dairy farmers Communist hams. · · · 'happened to that bill? It was brutally 'should be given an opportunity to· vote . mutilated by the House and Senate · t · n · derst·a~d Poland's desire to tm- on a wo-pr1ce program-a ew ap:- We Can Un - . spokesmen for the owners of cotton plan- h t k ble ffect·ve peaceti·me Prove its ·econ.omic status. But we join proac o a war a , e i . American hog raisers in deploring its efforts . tations, big wheat ranches, peanut plan- . d airy· program. I · am worki'ng wi'th my to do it at the expense of the domestic swine : tations, huge rice plantations, and the · :i.nenc • d s f rom oth er d airy· sta tes· on such. industry, which is already wallowing in , commercial corngrowers in the· Corn . a program. trouble. The last thing the hog business Belt. . In the meantime, ·however-, I am re­ here needs ts a flood of foreign pork to con·- The family farmer of Michigan and · lieved that President Eisenhower had th'e tribute further to its depression. · other northern livestock States has not wisdom to recognize that the farm bill forgotten-not at· all. He was promise·d was designed to do great damage to the I agree with the sentiment expressed ·a modest milk price increase until after . livestock farmers of our district and in this article from Chicago. I sympa- election. Then the architects of the Am.erica. I am pleased that he boosted thize with the farmers of Iowa and Illi- -farm bill carefully set the stage for the · dairy price supports to · approximately nois and the pork-producing, ~idwest, · roof to fall in. This planned sabotage · 85 percent of parit'y. Now it is up to too also my distinguished colleagues · CM:r. · of the livestock farmer has not been . congress to buckle down a~d pass a good . CUNNINGHAM and Mr. GRossJ, who are · widely publicized, but the record is there. · soil-bank _bill with ,safeguards against against this program and are trying to President Eisenhower tackled the farm the dumping of diverted acres. · help the farmer. Secretary Dulles and · problem at its source. He asked to re- bur family farmer expects House and you Members who favor this kind of re- · store fertility in the soil and not deplete ·Senate leadership to ·serve them as cit~­ ciprocal trade are ruining. the cotton it to produce more surpluses. To make zens-entitled to the same consideration farmer.s of south Carolina, Mississippi, · certain that cotton. corn, and wheat they have previously expressed to the Texas, California, Tennessee, and other ·_ acres would not be planted to grass---only - big plantati-0n and· ranch owners. T:q.e cotton-producing states. Do not forget to produce more milk and beef-he asked President has demo~trated his _fairness. when we are forced to import ·Japane~e that these soil-bank acres not be grazed. · Now it is up to the opposition to rise 1;9 textiles the American textile industry But the Congress majority nullified that . the same level of statesmanship. · · · · safeguard. The farm bill would have uses 76 percent of the cotton grown in . permitted the grazing. Thirty- to forty the United States. · · million acres· would have been released to THE REVEREND F.ATHER DOMINIC Mr. Speaker, I. am in favor of trade. pro~uce _milk and pe~f. This is an area . . J. DEL MONTE I refute the~e reciprocal traders who say .- equal to the State· of Iowa in size. Dairy- The SPEAKER." Under ·previous or- we are against trade. · The world has . men would have been buried under der of the House the gentleman from had trade ever since th& Ro:mau-..days , ~ountains - o-f..~uses which could have · New Jersey [Mr.'·siEMINSKI] is recog- and before, but we have never had a11y · wrecked the dairy farming business. . nized·for 10 minutes. · , · such trade as is being forced upon this : The original farm bill approved by the Mr. SIEMINSKI. ·Mr. Speaker, I had country today. Under Mr. Dulles' free- !, Senate would have helped dairy farming · intended originally to rise and pay my trade program we have to take Commli- · through· a new method of calculating respects, and very sincere respects, to 'a nist hams from Poland where ham and - parity. It was a good provision. It pro- very distinguished constituent of mine pork is needed so badly and injure the vided permanent benefits. But what did · of Bayonne, N. J .• who has been very farmers of this country. We have to · the conferees do? They wiped it out and kind ta me and whose parishioners have take textiles °from Japan and injure the tossed a bone of 10 cents per hundred- · been most kind to my political fortunes. cotton farmers and textile workers of weight-but only until after election. I had intended to pay a eulogy. at·this this country. The state Department Then beginning April 1 next year, prices time to the Reverend Father Dominic~· should be helping the textile people a11d · would ~rop at least 20 cen~ per hu~- Del Monte, citizen, as well as pa~tor, and cotton farmers of South Carolina and ', dr~dwe1ght. Eyentually prices could . a -member .of the Roman Catholic clergy, · Alabama to find markets for their cot- · skid to an all-time low. But then_ the the archd10cese of Newark . . But when ton and textiles abroad. These farmers ~ votes they thou~ht about 'Yould be m.. ·. I came on ·the fioor of the House and I . . · · · . .Those of us mterested m the family . heard the name of·my alma. mater taken, and te~~Ile V:' 0~kers, Mr. Dull~s, h~ve · farmer voted tor a limit on how much : Princeto Ii. UniVersity,. I am '.afraid I had been reciproc~~mg for ~ears by buynig ' price support.money could be paid to big : to ·throw my eulogy .into .neutral gear coffee, cocoa, silk, tea, tm, rubber, nuts, ~ producers. Let me give you some bac~- . for th,e. moment. So I sha}l a~k unan,i­ an~ ,~any othe; pro~ucts fr_om abro~.d . . ground. One wheat farmer has drawn a ; mous consent ~t tpis tiµie, Mr. Speaker, It IS t~me_ for th~s Congress to-r~a~~ert i~s - check for ·$1,300,000. Sixty-two bigtime to exte:r_id my _remarks on this: subject at const1tutu~nal r1gl)tto reg1;1Iat_e tariff and farzners received more thail $100,000 the proper point. in the RECORD. Such foreign traqe. ~tis the d_ut~ C!f-C~gre~s : · trom the Government on -their 1954 ' point being, if time allows, at the end to protect our .own patriotic American ! crops. A rice grower received $486,0QO. ' of my remarks on Princeton. University. · people from foreign textiles, "dp-mmunfat : Are these the-men, the so-~alled farmei:s, · The SPEAKER. . Is there objection to . hams, Arg~ntine beef. foreign chernicals~ ! our support program is

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

Hon. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Tells Hi-Y of honor at a dinner which marked the faced by the duly elected executive and close of a 2-day session of the general legislative officers of our State government. Youth Legislators More Politicians I trust that you have passed all the bills assembly of the Hi-Y youth in govern­ that needed to be "passed," and perhaps Mean Better Government ment project. There were about 175 repealed a few acts that needed repealing. young men present, all juniors and At any rate when you finished, it was un­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS seniors in high school, who had been necessary for the Secretary of State to OF elected by their Hi-Y Clubs at the Young proclaim, "God save the State of Connect­ Men's Christian Associations in their icut." I wonder if any of you are already HON.ANTONIN.SADLAK home communities, to serve as senators making plans for calling a Epecial session. I have been pleased to examine the OF CONNECTICUT or as representatives in the youth gen­ Handbook of Instructions so carefully pre­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . eral assembly. They performed all of the steps involved in carrying into effect pared by the Youth and Government Com­ Thursday, April 19, 1956 mittee of the Connecticut State YMCA. I a law of the State of Connecticut. congratulate those who worked in its prep;. Mr. SADLAK. Mr. Speaker, I have As always, my colleague was brief in aration. This manual could well serve as asked for unanimous consent to extend his remarks, but the advice which he an effective "do it yourself" manual for your my remarks, and wish to do so by insert­ gave to the youth legislators and the prototypes, the elected Senators and Repre­ ing in the RECORD an address which was other guests present was so well thought sentatives, especially those coming to Hart­ delivered during the recent recess of the out, and it is of so much interest, not 'ford for their first term of service in the General Assembly. ' Congress by my colleague from Connecti­ only to parents, but to all citizens of all I have not yet received any specific re­ cut, the Representative of the Second ages, that I am inserting at this point port as to the "laws" which you have en­ Congressional District, and as such my in the RECORD the text of his address: acted during this session of the Youth and own Congressman, the Honorable HOR­ HON. HORACE SEELY-BROWN, JR., TELLS HI-Y Government Assembly. I am sure there are ACE SEELY-BROWN, JR. YOUTH LEGISLATORS MORE POLITICIANS MEAN many which rightly can be counted as an The Members of this House know that BE.'TTER GOVERNMENT index to your alert civic responsibility and Mr. SEELY-BROWN does not take up much Mr. Chairman, I consider it an honor and sound thinking. of the time of the House with speeches, a privilege to be given the opportunity of I would not be at all surprised, nor would but when he does speak, we have ob­ sharing in this program with you. The in­ I blame you, if there were no bills passed served that invariably it is briefly and vitation so graciously ·tendered by your under the general entitlement of "juvenile deli~quency . " I am sure that many of you to the point, and his remarks always chairman to address this closing session of the Youth General Assembly was one which are sick of the term and for much of the loose are a cogent contribution to the busi­ I was pleased indeed at being able to accept. talk for which this term must serve as a label. ness before the House. During these past 2 days, you as members I prqpiise. not to belabor ~he point, but it The address which I am about to place of the Youth and Government Assembly does seem to me that even those of us who in the RECORD was delivered at the Hotel have completed an arduous program. I am are adults have become quite confused Bond, in Hartford, Conn., where Mr. sure that in your ''stand in" capacity you about juvenile delinquency, including alike SEELY-BROWN was asked to· be the guest have had a real look at some of the problems what it is, and what to do about it.