5934 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 17 Charles Eads Coons Odell Wynne Williamson, Jr. John Francis Creed John Kessen Withers HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES William J. Crosby Charles Anderson Wurster Richard Dickson Cudahy Stewart Young MoNDAY, MAY 17, 1948 Robert Carroll Davis Daniel De Foe IN THE NAVY The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Walter Albert della Chiesa The. following-named midshipmen (Naval The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera John Francis Dent, Jr. Academy) to be second lieutenants .in the Montgomery, D. D., offered the follow Sims Gerald· Dildy Marine Corps from the 4th day of June 1948: ing prayer: Benjamin Joseph Di Loreto Hugh D. Adair, Jr. Ben A. Moore, Jr. William Pinkerton Dougherty RichardT. F; AmbrogiRichard C. Morrow Almighty God, may the words of our Benjamin Wynn Eakins George T. Balzer Merrill L. Norton mouths and the meditations of our George Martin Edwards, Jr. Robert R. Carson Keith O'Keefe hearts be acceptable · in Thy sight, 0 John Arnold Edwards Leamon R. Cooke Orlo C. Paciulli, Jr. Clarence Couch Elebash Robert R. Dickey Ill John M. Perkins Lord, our Strength and our Redeemer. David Draper Garrison Lucius V. diLorenzo Robert D. Reem Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Patteson Gilliam Edward F. Duncan Jack W. Robbins By unanimous consent, the reading of Harold Sherwood Gillogly Richard N. Hall 2d Edwin M. Rudzis the Journal of Friday, May 14, 1948, was Joseph Eugene Gorrell Henry C. Hamilton; Roy K: Russell Warren Reed Graves Jr. Richard D. Schneider dispensed with. William Comstock Hayden Dean B. Hansen Robert N. Smith LEAVE OF' ABSENCE Wilho Richard Heikkinen Lee R. Howard James W. Strother Joseph William Huey Charles J. Kelly Robert G. Tobin, Jr. By unanimous consent, leave of ab Samuel Fuqua Hurt Floyd M. McCurdy, Jr. sence was granted to Mr. ALLEN of Cali fornia, from May 17 to May 21, 1948. Floyd Allan Johnston The following-named (civilian college grad Jay Silverman Josephs uates) to be ensigns in the Supp~y Corps of RECESS John Kastris, Jr. the Navy: Donal Denis Kavanagh The SPEAKER. Pursuant to House Alfred Henry Kerth, Jr. Roger C. Bliss William J. McMordie Resolution 502, the Chair declares the Donald Charles Kipfer Leonard E. Brock James R. Martin Robert T. Broili Roy D. Mannie· House to be in recess for the purpose of Edward Anderton Kritzer holding memorial services as arranged by George Adelbert La Pointe Ramon L. Burke Dean 0. Powell George Newton Leitner LeRoy T. Carter Ben R. Scht;nidt the Committee on Memorials. · Vincent Paul Lewando Homer Fults Robert G. Whitman. Accordingly the House stood in recess, Louis LoConte, Jr. Andrew Khourie Fred I. Woodworth, Jr. to meet at the call of the Speaker. W. Grim Locke Joseph G. Power (civilian college gradu MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAM Denman Murray Long ate) to be a lieutenant (junior·grade) in the May 17, 1948 William Henry Lynch · Chaplain Corps of the Navy. William Meredith Lyon Prelude, sacred selections (11 :30 to 12) --- The following-named (civilian college grad United States Navy Orchestra Gaylord MacCartney uates) to be ensigns ln the Civil Engineer Presiding officer ______The Speaker William James Madden Corps of the Navy: Hon. JoSEPH W. MARTIN, JR. Nasor John Mansour, Jr. Invocation ______The Chaplain Robert Couth Mathis Herbert L. Baker Howard D. Graessle II William Thornton McGinness PhilipS. Birnbaum, Jr. Wayne C. Hall, Jr. Dr. James Shera Montgomery Francis William Mcinerney, Jr. Charles Bultzo Jerry D. Hattshman Solo: Lead, Kindly Light (Dykes)------ James Clifford McManaway, Jr. John L. Dixon Theodore R. Howell Han. J. PERCY PRIEST, Representative Richard Lee Miner Albert H. Gallaher Jack H. McDonald from the State of Tennessee Otis Corcoran Moore The following-named to be ensigns in the At the piano ____ Musician John Wigent Nurse Corps of the Navy: Scripture reading and prayer __ 'l'he Cha:plain Rhone! Earl Morgan Roll of deceased Members ______The Clerk William Donald Mounger Frances J. Bombriant Virginia R. Mussen James Allen Muehlenweg of the House of Representatives Ruth L. Brenner Cecile R, Normandin Devotional silence. Morton Claire Mumma III Eleanor M. Budinsky Mary E. H. O'Brien William Charles Ocker Address __ Hon. EVERETr DIRKSEN, Representa Frances S. Czegely . Kathleen J. O'Kane tive from the State of Illinois W11liam Thomas O'Connell, Jr. Helen Daroska Jean B. Pieczarka Solo: Going Down the Valley (Fillmore) __ _ Robert Edwin Pater Barbara Ellis Marie L. Rios Hon. HARVE TmBoTT, Representative Jack Francis Peppers Norma J. Geho Dorothy L. Rowe Thomas Albert Phillips, JJ:. 'from the State of Pennsylvania Ruth L. Grass Margaret Russell At the piano____ Musician John Wigent John Charles Pickering Julie E. Kell Sara A. Sims Robert Murray Pomeroy Address ____ Hon. RAY J. MADDEN, Representa- Helen A. Kenyon Edith A. Smith tive from the State of Indiana Jacob Bernard Pompan Elise M. Lovely Mary R. Thames Taps ______Musician Frank Sclmonelli Philip Steven Porter _ Elizabeth M. Me- Evelyn M. Vejvoda Benediction ______The Chaplain Alton Harold Quanbeck Laughlin Gloria J. 'vesper Donald Hood Reynolds MEMORIAL SERVICES Evan Willlam Rosencrans IN THE MARINE CORPS George Warren Rutter The below-named midshipmen to be sec Tl!e SPEAKER presided. James Gage Sandman ond lieutenants in, the Marine Corps: INVOCATION Rodman Saville· Lewis H. Cameron John E. Rudder The CHAPLAIN. Lord, Thou hast been Louis Wellington Schalk Elisha G . ..Cloud Nicholas M. Trapnell, Irving Bernard Schoenberg WilHam G. Crocker Jr. our dwelling place in all generations. Edward Leigh Scott Loren T. Erickson William F. Trisler Before the mountains were brought forth, Richard James Seguin Mack R. McClure James R. Young or ever Thou hast formed the earth and Ivan Morange Sellg Sherman L. Prosser the world, even from everlasting to ever- James Cole Shively, Jr. Richard Ingram Skinner The below-named citize.ns to be second . lasting, Thou art God. For a thousand Charles Peter Skouras, Jr. lieutenants in the Marine Corps: years in Thy sight are but as yesterday William Young Smith Simon I. Degulis, a citizen of New York. when it is past, and as a watch in the Arthur Snyder, Jr. Joseph P. , B. Franklin, a citizen of New night. So teach us to number our days, Richard Neil Stein Jersey. that we may apply our hearts unto James R. Gallman, Jr., a citizen of Texas. Henry Barthold Stelling, Jr. wisdom. And let the beauty of the Lord Donald Brunhoff Swenholt Philip J. Garm, a citizen of Pennsylvania. Michael Joseph Tashjian Jack E. Harlan, a citizen of California. our God be upon us. Amen. Stanley Edward Thevenet James E. Harren, a citizen of Texas. ANNOUNCEMENT George Selby Thomas Francis R. · Hittinger, Jr., a citizen of Vir- Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Speaker, we have Robert Armes VanArsdall ginia. . James Alward Van Fleet, Jr. Floyd G. Hudson, a citizen of Virginia. again been saddened since the printing Walton Vernon Waller Arthur R. Mansfield, Jr., a clt~en of the of the program for the memorial exer Paul Elwood Weaver District of Columbia. cises today by the passing of our distin Samuel White, Jr. Edwin A. Pollock, Jr., a citizen of Virginia. guished colleague in the other Chamber, Francis Marion Williams Jack L. Selk, a citizen of California. the Honorable JOHN OVERTON, of Lou- if1
. 1948 CONGRESSIONAI.J RECORD-HOUSE 5935 1s1ana. As you know, the -' flags are· still Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass Listen! Them's footsteps, ain't they? at half-mast in his memory. of the field, which today is, and tomor Some other folks bringin' their kid to see us. Hope we never have to make room for him. In deference to the wishes of the mem row is cast into the oven, shall He not Sure-1'11 skip it-- bers of his family ," the paying of tribute much more clothe you, 0 ye of little Didn't mean to disturb you to him is being deferred until this occa faith? Ain't crowdin' yo,u. am I, Buddy? sion a year hence, when it is hoped they Eternal God, our Father,. Thou who can be with us. art ever present to guide and to com ROLL OF DECEAS~TI MEMBERS VOCAL SOLO fort, increase the faith and hopes which Mr. Al:r;1ey E. Chaffee, reading clerk of Hon. J. PERCY PRIEST, accompanied we feel in the temples of our souls. By the House of Representatives, read the by Musician John Wigent, sang Lead, these tokens grant that at the last we following roll: Kindly Light. may merit the "Well done, good and SENATOR SCRIPTURE READING AND PRAYER faithful servant." We thank Thee for THEODORE GILMORE BILBO, .a Senator from the voice that comes across the cen the State of Mississippi: Born October 13, The CHAPLAIN: turies to the hearts of all in' sorrow: "Be 1877; teacher; farmer; lawyer; attended Pea Oh, yet we trust that somehow good of good cheer." Be Thou the bread of body College at Nashville, .Tenn., Vanderbilt Will be the final goal of ill, life for our hunger and the water of life University, and the University of Michigan; To pangs of nature, sins of will, for our thirst. Thy servants whom we member of the State senate, 1908-12; Lieu Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; tenant Governor, 1912-16; Governor, 1916-20 remember today rest from their labors, and 1928-32; elected to the United States That nothing walks with aimless feet; , and their works do follow them.. The Senate in 1934, 1940, and 1946; died August That not one life shall be destroy'd, souls of the righteous are in the hands 21, 1947. Or cast as rubbish to the void, of God. In the sight of the unwise REPRESENTATIVES When God hath made the pile complete; they seeme.d to die, but they are at peace. FRED BRADLEY, Eleventh Congressional Dis Vouchsafe unto us the peace and rest trict of Michigan: Born April 12, 1898; law That not a worm is cloven in vain; which .flow from Thy holy presence. yer, businessman, legislator; elected to the That not a moth with vain desire. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Sixty-sixth and four succeeding Congresses; Is shrivell'd in a fruitless fire, died May 24, 1947. Or but subserves another's gain. Our Father which art in heaven, hal JOSEPH JEFFERSON MANSFIELD, Ninth Con Behold, we know not anything; lowed be Thy name. gressional District of Texas: Born February Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, 9, 1861; farmer, lawyer, editor; organized and I can but trust that good shall fall served as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, At last-far off-at last, to all, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our. daily bread. and captain in the National Guard of Texas, And every winter change.to spring. 1886; prosecuting attorney, mayor, Eagle And forgive us our debts, as we tor Lake, . Tex., 1888-89; prosecuting attorney, So runs my dream: but what am I? give our debtors. Colorado County,- 1892-96; ex officio county An infant crying in the night: . And lead us not into temp~ation, but superintendent of schools, 1896-1900; judge, An infant crying for the light: deliver us trom evil: tor Thine is the Colorado County, 1896-1916; elected to the And with no language but a cry. kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Sixty-fifth and 15 succeeding Congresses; I falter where I firmly trod, forever. died July 12, 1947. · CHARLES L. GIFFORD, Ninth Congressional And; falling with my weight of cares Amen. District of Massachusetts: Born March 15. Upon the great world's altar-stairs 1871; teacher, realtor, agriculturalist; mem That slope thro' darkness up to God, Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Speaker, at this time I should like to read a fitting me ber State house of representatives, 1912-13; I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, State senator, 1914-19; elected to the Seven morial entitled "The Other Unknown tieth and 10 succeeding Congr~sses; died Au And gather dust and chaff, and call Soldier" by Stanley Kimmel. gust 23, 1947. To what I feel is Lord of all, ·RAYMOND SMILEY SPRINGER, Tenth Corigres And faintly trust the larger hope. THE OTHER UNKNOWN SOLDIER (By Stanley Kimmel) sion·al District of Indiana: Born April 26. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not 1882; lawyer, judge;· attended Earlham Col 'Move over, Buddy- lege, Richmond, Ind., and Butler University; want. Yeah, it's me, the other unknown soldier. graduated from the Indiana Law School in He maketh me to lie down in green You didn't think I'd get here, did you? 1904; attorney Fayette County, 1908-14; pastures: He leadeth me beside the still But I made it. judge of the thirty-seventh judicial circuit Of waters. . . Yeah, it took a long time, Indiana, 1916-22; captain of infantry in First He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me But I made it. World War, 1918; lieutenant colonel, Officers Say, Buddy, how is it out here, in the paths of righteousness for His Out here ·in Arlington? Reserve Corps; elected to the Seventy-sixth name's sake. Yeah, I been here before, and four succeeding Congresses; died August Yea, though I walk through the valley But not like this. 28, 1947. of the shadow of death, I will fear no I was a kid, PATRICK HENRY DREWRY, Fourth Congres evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and My folks brought me to see you. sional District of Virginia: Born May 24. It was summer, 1875; lawyer, banker; attended McCabe's Uni Thy staff, they comfort me. versity School, Randolph-Macon College, and Thou preparest a table before me in . June, I think; There was trees and fiowers, the University of Virginia; member of the the presence of mine enemies: Thou And a clear Sky- State senate, 1912-20; delegate to the Demo anointest my head with oil; my Cl;lP run Just like today, Buddy. cratic State conventions, 1912, 1916, 1920, and neth over. We'd come to Washington, 1924; delegate to the Democratic . National Surely goodness and mercy shall fol From a small town out West, Convention, 1916; chairman of the Economy low me all the days of my life: and I will To see the sights; and Efficiency Commission of Virginia, 1916- dwell in the house of the Lord forever. My folks never travel'd much, 18; chairman of the State advisory board, Let not your heart be troubled: ye Too poor- 1919; member of the Democratic National believe in God, believe also in Me. Guess it was the only trip Congressional Committee, 1923-47, and They ever took. chairman, 1935-47; ranking member, Com In my Father's house-are many man But me! I'm like you, Buddy, mittee on Naval Affairs and ranking minority sions: if it were not so, I would have I been places! Seen things! member, Committee on Armed Services; told you. I go to prepare a . place for I was at Kasserine Pass, Sicily, Anzio, Cas elected to the Sixty-sixth and 14 succeeding you. sino, Congresses; died December 21, 1947. And if I go and prepare a place for Then Normandy beach head, the Battle of the JOHN MARSHALL ROBSION, Ninth Congres you, I will come again, and receive you Hedgerows, and St. Lo, sional District of Kentucky: Born January:&, unto Myself; that where I am, there ye Yeah, and the Battle of the Bulge, and the ·1875; teacher, lawyer, banker; attended Na may be also. Ardennes. tional Northern University, Ada, Ohio, and I was at Owen Stanley Mountains, too, Holbrook College, Knoxville, Tenn.; gradu Consider the lilies of the field, how Then Buna, Attu, the Solomons, and Saipan, they grow; they toil not, neither do they ated from the National Normal University, Yeah, and Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Leyte, Luzon Lebanon, Ohio, and Centre College, Danville, spin: Sure-1'11 skip it-- Ky.; delegate to the Republican National And yet I say unto you, that even Didn't mean to disturb you, Convention at Chicago, 1916; elected to the Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed Talkin' like this. Sixty-sixth and five succeeding Congresses; like one of these. • • • • • Member of the United States Senate, under
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_j appointment, from January 9, 1930, to No mental faith as rugged and redoubtable She brougnt with her an alabaster vember 30, 1930; again elected to the Seven as the hills of his native Kentucky. box of precious ointment. She stood be ty-fourth and six succeeding Conf?'resses; died And so in this intensely personal com hind the · Man of Galilee, who was February 17, 1948. ORVILLE ZIMMERMAN, Tenth Congressional munion today we shall live with them doubtless sitting or Jineeling at His re District of Missouri: Born December 31, 1880; intimately again and take thought and past. It was the-posture of humility. lawyer; attended Mayfield-Smith Academy at inspiration from their divine Personali She washed His feet with her tears. She Marble Hill; graduated from State College at ties that will continue to linger long in dried them with her tresses and then Cape Girardeau, 1904, and from the Univer this Chamber. from the alabaster box she took the sity of Missouri, 1911; served in the United While the spirit of remembrance and precious ointment of spikenard and an States Army as a private during the First the· mood of memory is upon us, I think nointed Him. I presume we would call - World War; member board of regents, State today of a very simple and entrancing it perfume. College, Cape Girardeau, Mo., since 1933; There was no conversation. There elected to the Seventy-fourth and five ~uc story in the Scripture. It is the story ceeding Congresses; died April 7, 1948. of an obscure and nameless woman who was no record. There were no remarks brought an alabaster box of precious to be examined. We have only the rec Mrs. NORTON, a Representative from ointment with which to annoint the ord of this simple and humble ministra the State of New Jersey, standing in Master. To me it is so simple, so com tion. front of the Speaker's rostrum, and aided pelling, and so appropriate for this oc The disciples were there. The Book by Edward H. Funston Ill, a page of the casion. says they were indignant. I can well House of Representatives, placed a me I am sure you will remember that the imagine that scene. I can particularly morial rose in a vase as the name of Man of Galilee was going to go to the imagine Peter. who must have been there. each deceased Member was read by the home of Simon the leper in the village of frowning. He was such a sturdy and Clerk. Bethany for a visit and for a meal. How fprthright soul and so practical. The DEVOTIONAL. SILENCE strange that seems to us. Who among anointing of the Master with precious There followed a period of devotional us would think of going to the house of a perfume offended the practical sense of silence, during which the Members leper to dine and to visit? But Jesus did the disciples. Quickly they translated stood. so and, as I said, Simon the leper lived in it into ~n equation of their own. This The SPEAKER. The Chair recog Bethany. ointment might well bring 300 pence nizes the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. It was my privilege to visit the village and the money could be used for alms DIRKSEN]. of Bethany in .1945. What a memorable and for charity. ADDRESS OF HON. EVERETT M. DIRKSEN and historic place it really is. You will That argument has such a familiar recall that Lazarus lived there together ring to.day. How often have Members Mr. DffiKSEN. Mr. Speaker, this is with his sisters Mary and Martha. It of this body been chided, especially dur very peculiarly our own day. It is our was on the roadway which leads from ing wartime, for going abroad to inspect day for personal communion with those Bethany that Martha encountered the the progress~s of our arms and to ob who but a short while before were with Master and from a heavy heart and a dis serve conditions the better to discharge us in the confraternity of public service. concert of spirit complained of the fact their responsibilities. How often we were This is the day on which we pay that Mary had not made the household confronted with the argument that the gracious testimony and loving tribute to ready for the coming of the Galilean. gasoline and the expenses involved might those who are now gathered in the de And after He had listened patiently to have been put to better and more useful mocracy of death and who were with her He said so humbly, "But one thing purpose. It was the very kind of an us a short while ago. If they could come is needful." And that, of course, was the argument that the disciples used long into the doors of the Chamber this day need of the spirit. It was in this selfsame ago as they saw the ministrations of this With what warmth and affection we village then of Bethany where Simon humble woman. would greet them. lived, and while he and the Master were The Maste.r must have listened ear Ther~ would be Senator BILBO and FRED at meat, as the Scripture records, there nestly to the argument and to the con.: BRADLEY, Judge MANSFIELD and CHARLIE came this unbidden guest. It was a versation and then, with simplicity and GIFFORD, RAY SPRINGER and PAT DREWRY, woman. The only characterization we logic which is like majesty itself, He sud Uncle JOHN ROBSION and 0RV ZIMMER have of her is that she was a sinner. We denly said, "Why trouble ye this woman. MAN, whom we · more affectionately know little else about her. She hath wrought a good work upon called ZIM. Somehow there is a strange · Was she tall and stately or ·was she, me." selectivity in the democracy of transition perhaps, short statured and robust? We How simple, how compelling, how per for no two of those who have departed do not know, for the Gospels are silent suasive that was. He simply said, "She from us come from the same State. If on this. Did she wear fashionable rai hath wrought a good work upon me." A I were to characterize each by a single ment or was she dressed in ordinary little later He then sai 1948 CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD-HOUSE 5937 The speeches which we make so quick As I think of th~s quality of objectiv ficiency, and from this a remedy was ly, die upon the vesper breeze. The votes ity a number of favorite examples come soon prescribed. There were no head on which we and they are recorded will to mind. lines for Joseph Goldberger, no gilded soon be forgotten. It is the human, the One of my . favorite characters, who books were written about him. There humane and kindly little services which was rather contemporary because he were no demonstrations to acclaim him. are unherald, unsung, and unacclaimed passed on only 30 years ago, was Maj. His was the humble service of the com which will be so long remembered on the Gen. William Crawford Gorgas of the monplace, but gratitude for that service tablets of the mind and the heart. United States Army. He was one of will ring down the vistas of time and There is an amazing immortality about that little group who back in the days come as a song of joy, from the hearts a kindly service, a _good deed, a humble when the construction of the Panama of the afflicted. He received but six lines· ministration. In all parts of the land Canal was in progress was persuaded in the current press when the soul took there will be people who will long remem that the Canal could not be built unless flight. ber them for these little things which yellow fever and malaria were first con I think also of the humble service may seem unimportant to us in the quered. So insistent was he in his view rendered by a New Hampshire soldier hurly-burly of a controversial atmos point that it offended the construction during the Civil War whose name is un phere. superintendent on the Canal and he in known to me. Evidently he must have How many veterans they must have sisted on the dismissal of Gorgas. The enjoyed a furlough and when he re helped not only in the recent-conflict but letter of dismissal was already on the turned to the hills of his native New in World War I in securing expeditious desk of the President of. the United Hampshire he had time to fashion his hospitalization. For this there a·re no States but wiser counsels prevailed and own tombstone, possibly because of a headlines. How many refugees in the it was never consummated. William premonition of death. On one side of old countries and the kinfolks of those Crawford Gorgas continued to serve un that stone were carved the essential vital refugees in this country they must have til the malarial-bearing mosquito and statistics and on the other side this self helped in securing visas that they might yellow fever had been conquered. How written epitaph, "This side of my tomb be lifted from the tyrannies of the Old little we hear about it. How little ac stone I dedicate to freedom and union. World. For this there is no acclaim·. claim he really received, and-yet it was May they survive and endure forever." How many aged and indigent persons this humble service which had so much Here was a man rendering humble serv back home they must have helped and to do with the completion of a Federal ice to this country in an hour of crisis to whom they provided comfort in en.:. project for the linking of two great and it will be remembered into the deavoring to secure more adequate pen oceans. eternity. sions and assistance. The song of un The services of General Gorgas did not Yes; there was objectivity about their uttered joy for this will be written on stop here. He served the people of Peru service here and it so well illustrates gracious human hearts. How ·many and other South American countries in that simple but compelling sentiment conquering plagues and increasing lon which the Master uttered when He said, snarls they must have u~tangled where folks back home were having difficulty gevity. Even as age was coming upon "She hath wrought a good work upon with railroad retirement pensions and -· him he went to The Rand in far-off Africa Me. social-security benefits. How many to subdue the influenza germ. It is no They have wrought a good work upon fathers and mothers they must have wonder that when he died in London in us, upon their kinsmen and their con helped irl finding the last resting place of 1919 a vast concourse of people lined the stituency, upon their country and the some son enshrined in g'Iory on some far streets on the occasion of the memorial world. They have wrought a good work .off battlefield. How many fathers and parade in his honor and when the rider and it will be remembered . mothers, wives and sweethearts they less white horse went by they bowed in The intimate and personal character must have aided in locaUing kin some reverence and respect to the memory of of this memorial service today is pos where abroad in this huge world, How a truly noble man whose nobility con sible because it is the remembrance of many businessmen they must have helped sisted of humble service for the welfare the living to those who are now gone. in finding their way through the laby of all mankind. It would fail in its purpose if it did not rinth of a bewildering government. All Some years ago I saw a six-line squib quicken ·our spirits. It must enrich us these and a thousand more are the hum in one of the Washington newspapers and do something for our own perspec ble services which marked each· day of announcing the death of Dr. Joseph tive, our behavior, and our viewpoint. their service in this body. And because Goldberger. Perhaps it meant little to What then shall we draw from it all as these were the human and humane things many people, but it meant a great deal we stand on· the very shadow of their they appeal to the heart and will be long to me, because I had followed the career lingering spirits and enjoy the com remembered. The letters which they of this seemingly obscure man, who was munion of memorial fellowship with have written over the years by the hun a member of the staff of the United them? dreds to bring comfort and reassurance States Public ·Health Service. It was he Is it not possible that we too-ali of to humble people back home will be who was assigned to explore and find the us-have come here with our alabaster passed from hand to hand long after they remedy for that dreaded disease known box of precious ointment· consisting of had departed. These will bring strange' as pellagra, which had invaded the the talents with which we have been en luster to the countenance of people as Southland and not only had taken a dowed, the love which we bear for our they show these letters and say, "I got a great toll of life but enervated and de fellowmen, the interest which we have letter from my Congressman." Yes, these vitalized thousands of people so that in world welfare and the devotion which are the things that will live long and be they could not carry on their normal pur we entertain for this our blessed country suits. It was to this problem that Dr. to be used for the enhancement and enshrined upon the pulsing tablets of Joseph Goldberger addressed himself. progress of our country and the restora love · and memory. The record of his service is thrilling and tion of peace of mind and tranquillity of Let us go back .for a moment to what dramatic even though it appears so com soul to a restive and tumultuous world. the Master said to the disciples when monplace. He visited hospitals and This perfume of talent we can use if they showed their indignation of the asylums, orphanages and prison schools, we will to soften the asperities and the ministrations of this unnamed woman and groups in his relentless pursuit of severities of life, to modify the hates with sinner. He said simply "She hath this awful disease. He imperiled his own which we are often confronted and to so wrought a good work upon Me." It was life freely and willingly in order to find soften our own conduct that it will be as objective. It was somebody to some the cause. · a great spiritual wave and moral force body. It is the important thing in this The record shows him in a pullman for the Nation and for the world. As we compelling story. It is the mark of real car at Spartanburg, S. C., consuming use it lavishly and diligently we cannot service. capsules made from the offal of persons help but spill the precious and fragrant Their services were so intensely ob in the last stages of pellagra. He made perfume of our own talents upon our col jective because they were rendered to capsules of the scales which came from leagues and upon everyone with whom people, to us,- to.country, to humble folks their gaunt and haggard bodies to test we come in contact. who looked upon them as their liaison the effect upon himself. At long last he Suppose that for a single menth we agents with the Government. found the cause. It was a vitamin de- made a diligent effort to make certain - 5938 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 17 that in our disagreement we would never command and, Io, they were clothed with the boys in uniform who fell on the bat be captious; that in our differences on flesh. He asked whether they could live tlefield, in the air, and on the seas. But principle we would never show petu again and was told to command.the four they.were willing to make the sacrifice.of lance; that in resolutely following our winds to breathe into this great lifeless their time and strength because they own abiding convictions on matters of host the very breath of life, and, behold, understood the sacred import of their fundamental policy they would never be it stood there as a living army; legislative work. tainted by acrimony. Suppose we made . One of the old versions, as I remember, To forge the legislation of a people is a diligent effort to exemplifY the humility then carries this simple admonition from in a sense a participation in the divine and meekness and forbearance which the Lord. To Ezekiel He said that those plan of the Almighty, wlio rules both men marked their service, what a great moral in the Valley of D,r:ied Bones were like an ' and nations. Just laws are fashioned ,. force it would become in softening the ancient people and that they were lost by men, duly elected by their people, but dissidences of life and clarifying funda and dead and without hope. Then he those laws have their source and power mental· viewpoints. All this would re · said He would make them a people once in God and we legislators are but His dound so richly to the welfare of the .more. · · instruments. Great then must be our world and of our own country. He did not say that He would make sense of duty to the Omnipotent Law When all is said and done, my friends, them two people or a divided people or giver and close must be our cooperation the problems, the questions, and the a cloven people or a turbulent people. with Him in making laws that are in per challenges with which we are confronted He said he would make them a people fect agreement with the norm of right from day to day and year to year elm united in spirit and in effort. · reason and of moral equity and justice. scarcely be met by the lawbook and the As I survey the contemporary scene, is Today we feel confident that the Su statute book. So little of what we might there anything so important as a res preme Legislator has written a blessed formally inscribe upon the legislative toration of common purpose, of domes finis to the work of those whom we honor parchments will actually meet the chal tic tranquillity, and of happy labor in at these exercises. During their years lenges of this turbulent era because the the cause of an ideal which we call the of service in this House they cooperated problems come from the spirit and the American dream? well with Him in legislating for the best crisis is essentially moral. And so, my friends, in this blessed com interests of His children, the citizens of You will agree that on so many hands munion with our own let me say in the this Republic. one finds defeatism, but can we reduce language of Peter, let us strive for this There is no test of a man's ability in anything to the common denominator of great goal for which mankind yearns any department of public life more se words and language that will meet it. "until we find the day star rising in our vere than service in the National House How shall we best solve the group an of . Representatives; there is no place hearts." Th~t is the day star of hope tagonisms which are,. after all, a matter and promise for a new glory and a new where so little deference is paid to repu of heart and soul? How shall we best greatness for ourselves and for the whole tation previously acquired, Qr to eminence meet the moral fatigue which one finds world. And so in sweet remembrance we won outside; no place where so little in many places and which is the pardon lay upon their divine lingering personal consideration is shown for the feelings or able and inevitable result of a conflict ities the memorial laurel of the living to the failures of beginners. What a man which tugged at the whole human fabric the dead. gains in this chamber he gains by sheer of the world? How shall we meet the SOLO force of his own character, and if he frustrations which are also one of the loses and falls back he must expect no bitter inheritances of conflict? The Hon. HARVE TIBBOTT, accompanied mercy, and will receive no sympathy. It prophet Haggai in the <'ld Testament by Musician John Wigent, sang Going is a field in which the survival of the summed it up in a single phrase when he Down the Valley. strongest is the . recognized rule, and wrote on the parchments of the Scripture The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes where no pretense can deceive and no long ago, ''Ye looked for much, and, lo, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. glamour can mislead. Here the real it came to little." It is the best deflni.:. MADDEN]. man is discovered, his worth is impar tion of the frustrated spirit I have ever Hon.'RAY J. MADDEN, a Representa tially weighed, his rank is irreversibly encountered in the literature of man- tive from the State of Indiana, delivered decreed. On this day of retrospect and kind. · the following address: reflection, we can say that our absent But frustration and defeatism and AD~RESS BY HON. RAY :1. MADDEN brothel's stood this test with grandeur. moral fatigue and social cleavages and Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, during They survived criticism and nobly car group antagonisms must all be met if we the last year divine providence visited ried the rewards of success and praise. are to achieve that unity of purpose and the Congress and called seven of our They took to heart the eternal truths of action so indispensable to the progress Members to their final home. Today we liberty, obeyed them as the commands of our country and of the world. raise our thoUghts in reverent memory of Providence, and accepted the human I humbly doubt that the answer-the to those who were selected and answered race as the judge of their fidelity. real answer---:-can be found in legislative the call of their Maker. They have giv Ordinarily we think of Benjamin words. We must reach into the citadel en the last full measure of their devo Franklin as basking in the constant ad of the spirit to find the solutions· and we tion that we may continue to enjoy the miration of his countrymen. The fact have access to the citadel only in pro blessings of liberty and peace. They is that he withstood enough vituperation portion as the heart and the soul finds served their country in this Chamber to reduce many a modern legislator to solid moral ground. In proportion as · and they have carried on the good fight quivering panic. It was charged that he we can bring this approach to our prob for justice under law in our beloved land. not only approved the Stamp Act, but lems we shall again find sweetness and It is natural that in such an hour as framed it; there was talk of setting fire to serenity in our national life which will this when we commemorate our depart his house. He saw his oldest friends carry _us to levels never attained before ed fellow Members, that we look upon turn against him; he was scorned in Eng in any time or generation. This we can the work which they were doing when land and distrusted at home-until, just find in our sweet and personal com interrupted by the angel of death. The as suddenly he was acclaimed a hero. In · munion with their happy memories to result of their labors is a precious heri 1772 Franklin wrote . a letter to his old day. Let me add one more thing to this tage handed on to us. The work of mak friend Joseph Galloway, with whom he simple testimony of remembrance. In ing a nation's laws is a supremely heavy had shared a resounding political defeat the Old Testament is the story of Ezekiel responsibility that taxes human re a few years before. released from captivity who was com sources and strength to the fullest. Our The letter read: manded by the L~rd to look upon the absent colleagues understood this well. We must not in the course of public life Valley of Dried Bones. From an anxious Were it not so, some of .them would still expect immediate approbation and imme heart he asked the Lord whether they be with us today. The arduous and dev diate grateful acknowledgement of our serv-· ices. But let us persevere through abuse could live again. He was bidden to astating burdens of congressional war and even injury. The internal satisfaction command, and soon with a great clatter work cost an unprecedented toll of our of a good conscience is always present, and ing roar these bones ass~mbled into Members during this most critical period time will do us justice in the minds of the skeletons. He asked wh.ether they could in our Nation's history. · These Members people, even of those at present the most be clothed with flesh and was bidden to were war casualties the same as were prejudiced against us. - 1948 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5939 Just as the soldier in the line of fire dedicate ourselves· to those same sacred further mark of respect to the memory of draws inspiration and ·courage from the convictions, to that same eternal moral the ·deces:sed Members, the Chair de love of country burning fiercely in the law. We do so, well aware. that without clares the House adjourned until tomor bTeasts of his fallen comrades, so do we this faith in God and in His un row at 11 o'clock a. m. feel a firmer conviction to carry on with- · changeable moral law, all our efforts here Thereupon