9376 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 1 to American-flag operators in the domestic By Mr. CAREY: By Mr. O'HARA of Michigan: offshore trades; to the Committee on Mer­ H.R. 7430. A b111 for the relief of Ng (Eng) H.R. 7438. A bill for the relief of Anna chant Marine and Fisheries. Li Wong; to the Committee on the Judi­ Caporossi Crlsconl; to the Committee on the Also, memorial of the Legislature of the ciary. Judiciary. State of HawaU, memorializing the President By Mr. DADDARIO: By Mr. PHILBIN: and the COngress of the United States re­ H.R. 7431: A blll to allow the importation H.R. 7439. A blll to provide for the grant­ garding a resolution requesting the Con­ free of duty of certain stained glass windows ing of retired pay to James W. Boyer; to the gress of the United States to request the for use in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Hartford, Committee on the Judiciary. National Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ Conn.; to the Committee on Ways and By Mr. RABAUT: tration to study and determine the feasibil­ Means. H.R. 7440. A bill for the relief of Dr. Her­ ity of locating a space launching fac111ty on By Mr. FLYNT: menegildo F. Labsan; to the Committee on the island of Hawall, State of Hawall; to the H.R. 7432. A b111 for the rellef of Garland the Judiciary. Committee on Science and Astronautics. G. Bishop; to the Committee on the Judi­ By Mr. ROOSEVELT: Also, memorial of the Legislature of the ciary. H.R. 7441. A bill for the relief of Zoltan State of Florida, memorializing the President Friedmann; to the Committee on the Judici­ By Mr. HALPERN: ary. and the Congress of the United States rela­ H.R. 7433. A blll for the rellef of Herman tive to expanding the Veterans• Adminis­ By Mr. RYAN: and Marija Krajner; to the Committee on H.R. 7442. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Anti­ tration hospital fac111ties in the State of the Judiciary. gonl Iatropoulos; to the Committee on the Florida; to the Committee on Veterans• M­ By Mr. KEITH: Judiciary. falrs. H.R. 7434. A b111 to provide for the free By Mr. WALTER: entry of an electron microscope for the use H.R. 7443. A bill for the relief of Gerardo of the Marine Biological Laboratory; to the P. Magcanam and Pedro F. Bantillo; to the PRIVATE BnLS AND RESOLUTIONS Committee on Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. LESINSKI: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H.R. 7435. A b111 for the rellef of Czeslaw bills and resolutions were introduced Bochenski; to the Committee on the Judi­ PETITIONS, ETC. and severally referred as follows: ciary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, By Mr. McFALL: By Mr. ADDABBO (by request): H.R. 7436. A bill to validate the conveyance 160. The SPEAKER presented a petition of H.R. 7428. A bill for the rellef of Alexan­ of certain land in the State of Callfornia Maurice Brooks Gatlin, general counsel, the dros Vasllakos; to the Committee on the by the Central Pacific Rallway Co. and the Caribbean Division, the Anti-Communist Judiciary. Southern Pacific Co.; to the Committee on Committee of the Americas, New Orleans, La., By Mr. BURKE of Kentucky: Interior and Insular Affairs. petitioning consideration of their resolution with reference to a redress of grievance rela­ H.R. 7429. A bill to provide for the free By Mr. MAILLIARD: tive to diplomatic relations between the U.S. entry of an electron microscope for the use H.R. 7437. A blll for the rellef of Stella Government and the Government of the of the University of Loulsvllle, Louisville, Rosa Merello; to the Committee on the Ju­ Dominican Republic, which was referred to Ky.; to the Committee on Ways and Means. diciary. the Committee on Foreign Affairs. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Education To Match Our Times-Shep­ The 1961 graduating class of 150, a In times past, the possession of the col­ number of whom were students of high lege degree signified a kind of termination. herd College Commencement Address scholarly achievement, was drawn not It was assumed that the recipient, having Stresses Individual Responsibility and encompassed the basic corpus of knowledge, only from West Virginia but from the was equipped to deal with the world of the Need for the Creative Mind neighboring States of Maryland, Vir­ reality. And since the ultimate realities ginia, and the District of Columbia also. were viewed as static and eternal concepts, Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ no fundamental reconstruction of one's EXTENSION OF REMARKS sent that my Shepherd College com­ knowledge would be demanded in subse­ 011' mencement address be printed in the quent years, but merely further refinement RECORD. and acquisitions. HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH Never has this conception of learning 011' WEST VIRGINIA There being no objection, the address been less valid than it is today. For never IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, has the world been in such condition of as follows: constant and far-reaching :flux. Acknowl­ Thursday, June 1, 1961 EDUCATION TO MATCH OUR TIMES edgment of the primal significance of this Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, it (Address by Senator JENNINGS RANDOLPH, fact must be the cornerstone of any modern was my privilege on May 29 to have de­ Democrat of West Virginia, Shepherd Col­ philosophy of learning. livered the commencement address at lege Commencement, Shepherdstown, W. It has become a commonplace to refer to Va., May 29, 1961) ours as a time of revolution-industrial revo­ Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W. lution at home and political and social revo­ Va. President Ikenberry, members of the fac­ lutions abroad. But underlying all these is This institution, which was chartered ulty, honored graduates and guests, and la­ the revolution in knowledge itself. Radio in 1872, has an enrollment of approxi­ dles and gentlemen, the experience of com­ astronomy is beginning to probe the very mencement exercises is ever the same and limits of an expanding universe, while sub­ mately 1,500 and offers the regular 4- yet ever new and unique. year college courses in the liberal arts atomic physics is breaking the formerly in­ I suppose every graduate for generations divisible atom into ever more particles and and sciences leading to the A.B. and B.S. past has shared some of the same emotions degrees. Teacher training has been a of nostalgia when faced with the appraisal subpartlcles. major effort. It is typical of the many of the 4 years preceding, and exhilaration As Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer stated sev­ smaller colleges throughout our country and perhaps some trepidation in anticipa­ eral years ago regarding the revolution in which seldom make headlines in the ed­ tion of the years to come. And yet, for each scientific knowledge, .. Almost every month ucation pages of the large metropolitan graduate it is also a highly individualized has surprises for us in the findings about and private experience relating to one's own these particles. We are meeting new ones newspapers but which furnish a sound desires and aspirations. for which we are not prepared. We are educational foundation to large num­ In this respect, no matter how many such learning how poorly we had identified the bers of our young men and women. occasions in which one has participated, it properties even of our old friends among During recent years, under the able is always a pleasure and a benefit to share them. We are seeing what a challenging job leadership of President Oliver S. Iken­ again in the sense of challenge and the the ordering of this experience is likely to berry, who was formerly a dean at my drama of a be_ckoning world. be, and what a strange world we must enter own alma mater of Salem College, Shep­ The very word "commencement" indicates to find that order." herd College has made significant prog­ a beginning rather than an ending, and the The firm walls which once surrounded such ress in expanding its physical facilities degree you receive today is a licewre to pro­ compartments of knowledge as biology; phys­ and in attracting highly qualified fac­ ceed on new terms rather than to retire on ics, and chemistry have yielded to interpene­ ulty members. the old ones. tration between the disciplines: we now have 1961 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 9377 biophysics, mathematical biology, geochem­ shifting sands of chance. We require some­ ~vidual rather than the authority of the istry, and crystallography-to name but a thing of permanence and substance to give State. This is the struggle to realize the few of the modern mutations. And even the direction to our own lives. In short, we need American proposition which was so clea,rly once clear distinctions ·between life and non­ a cause to serve, a commitment to fulfill. stated by Henry Thoreau when he wrote that life have been thrown in question. The philosopher, Josiah Royce, wrote of "There will never be a really free and en­ It is little wonder, therefore, that the aver­ this need in terms of a philosophy of loyalty lightened State until the State comes to age citizen, even the educated layman, re­ to an ever widening community of ideals. recognize the individual as a. higher and in­ sponds to this upheaval in knowledge with "Let this spirit of loyalty to loyalty become dependent power, from which all its own feelings of doubt, uncertainty and confusion. universal," he stated, "and then wars will power and authority are derived, and treats This is perhaps a partial explanation for the cease; for then nations, without indeed laps­ him accordingly." hold which Commander Shepard and the ing into any merely international mass, will Thus it is that the task of education to­ other astronauts have upon the popular so respect each the loyalty of the others that day-formal education in the schools, as imagination.