10742 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 28, 1972 By Mr. BLACKBURN: the granting of amnesty to draft-evaders PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.J. Res. 1133. Joint resolution providing and deserters; to the Committee on Armed tor the designation of the third week of Services. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private October of 1972 as "National German Shep­ By Mrs. MINK (for herself and Mr. bills and resolutions were introduced and herd Dog Week"; to the Committee on the MATSUNAGA): severally referred as follows: Judiciary. H. Con. Res. 573. Concurrent resolution By Mr. DELLENBACK: to congratulate Waipahu, Hawaii, on its Dia­ By Mrs. GREEN of Oregon: H.J. Res. 1134. Joint resolution to pro­ mond Jubilee; to the Committee on the H.R. 14171. A bill to incorporate in the claim the last Friday in April as Arbor Day; Judiciary. District of Columbia the American Ex-Pris­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. oners of War; to the Committee on the Dis­ By Mrs. MINK: trict of Columbia. H.J. Res. 1135. Joint resolution proposing By Mr. O'NEILL: an amendment to the Constitution of the MEMORIALS H.R. 14172. A bill for the relief of Marla United States relating to the nomination of Fernanda Teodoro; to the Committee on the individuals for election to the offices of the Under clause 4 of rule XXII, President and Vice President of the United 348. The SPEAKER presented a memorial Judiciary. States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the Legislature of the State of Idaho, rel­ By Mr. SEIBERLING: By Mr. GOODLING: ative to the Salmon Falls Division project H.R. 14173. A bill for the relief of Ml'. H. Con. Res. 572. Concurrent resolution on the Salmon Falls Creek in Idaho; to the Walter Edward Koenig; to the Committee on expressing the sense of Congress concerning Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. the Judiciary.

EXTE.N,SIO·NS OF REMARKS A PRESIDENTIAL CLASSROOM FOR tained the next day's schedule, what each time to recall bitter fights with two former YOUNG AMERICANS seminar was to be on, a bibliography on the colleagues over civil rights and reapportion­ speakers and some bibliographies on the staff. ment. Some of our speakers were Congressman Sen. Douglas wm be 80 today. It is a land­ HON. LEE METCALF Pierre Du Pont from Delaware, Senator Ted mark in any man's life, but his birthday also is a landmark for the American liberal con­ OF MONTANA Stevens from Alaska, a White House speech writer, a member of the press, lobbyists, Mr. science. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Oleg Sokolor from the Soviet Union and a Unlike Miniver Cheever, Paul Douglas was Tuesday, March 28, 1972 Brigadier General. born too early, not too late. There were long, Tuesday was spent on Capitol Hill in meet­ lonely years when he was a crusader for Mr. METCALF. Mr. President, from ings with our Congressmen. There were three causes then unpopular to advocate, causes time to time it has been my privilege of us from Montana and I was proud to stand that came to be accepted in legislation to visit with young students from my up in the National Student Body and say touching the lives of every American-social home State who are here to participate in that the Montana delegation had been wel­ security, tax reform, truth-in-lending, aid to comed warmly when many students had not education, area redevelopment, housing, the program A Presidential Classroom minimum wage, and, above all and always, for Young Americans. been. On that day we visited with Senator Mansfield and Senator Metcalf. Congressman civil rights and liberties. The week they spend in Washington Shoup was in Montana on Tuesday, but on Fortunately, !or us and the senator, he enriches their studies in class and pro­ Friday two of us returned to see him. has lived long enough to become a prophet vides them a unique experience to ob­ One of the really educational parts of the with honor. serve their Government firsthand. week were the evening discussion group. Today a small circle of old friends will For a Member of Oongress, visits with I spent a few extra days in Washington gather at the cheerful home at 2909 Daven­ these bright young leaders are refresh­ with some relatives and so I was able to see port St. NW to share the 80th birthday with even more of D. C. Allin all I had one of the Sen. Douglas and his wife. Later will come a ing and delightful. "queen's birthday" celebration in June when Among Presidential Classroom stu­ most wonderful times of my life and would go back at any moment. the sun warms the patio in the back. dents this year was Miss Lauren Larson I would like to thank very much all the A stroke 2% years ago has left Sen. Doug­ whose account of her week here appeared people who helped make my trip possible. las confined in a wheelchair, but only phys­ in the Monitor, a weekly paper serving ically. The confinement does not extend to town his mind or conscience. her home of Boulder, Mont. The former Democratic senator from Illi­ I ask unanimous consent that Miss nois still percolates with stimulating ideas Larson's report on her week in Washing­ SENATOR PAUL DOUGLAS and questions, gets outraged at injustice ton be printed in the RECORD. ("I never knew a man who could get so out­ There being no objection, the article raged," a retired Senate reporter recalls), and was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. talks vigorously about present probletns and as follows: OF INDIANA future needs-urban ills, federal-state-city IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES relations, congressional reform. His wife, [From the Monitor, Boulder, Mont., March Emily Taft Douglas, a handsome, gracious 2, 1972] Tuesday, March 28, 1972 woman, herself a former congresswoman, ar­ MISS LAUREN LARSON REPORTS ON PRESIDENTIAL Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, this is the ranges the late-afternoon discussions that CLASSROOM excellent article about Senator Paul keep her husband in touch from his wheel­ (By Lauren Larson) chair. Douglas by Jean M. White which ap­ Once the 80th birthday is out of the way. I flew out of Helena on Friday a1.though peared in the Washington Post on Sun­ the actual classroom did not begin until there are busy months ahead for Paul and Saturday. There are six different weeks of day, March 26, 1972. Emily Douglas: Publication in mid-April of the classroom and I was scheduled forr the I insert the article in the RECORD to his 670-page autobiography, dedication of the first one. remind America to remember that in Paul H. and Emily Taft Douglas Library Saturday was mainly spent just meeting Senator Douglas we have one of the building at Chicago State University and your roommates and being introduced to the then perhaps a sentimental journey back to authentic saints of our time: the Indiana Dunes country, that wild area program and the staff. My roommates were PAUL DOUGLAS: REFORMER AT 80 from California, Missouri, North Carolina along Lake Michigan where the Douglas fam­ and Pennsylvania. (By Jean M. White) ily spent its summers, later to be saved by Sunday, I attended Mass at St. Matthew's A touch of mellowness, perhaps, that the senator as a national lakeshore park. Cathedral. That afternoon we went on a comes with the years, but the eyes are the The autobiography-revised in longhand tour of Washington and although it rained, same-the blue, piercing eyes the fixed eva­ on yellow legal pads after the senator suf­ we did see most of the major sights. sive Senate witnesses; the same great shock fered his stroke in August, 1969-bears an All of the instructors were lent from var­ of white hair; the same resonant voice that apt title: "In the Fullness of Time: The ious government agencies 'to work at the reached into the Senate galleries; the same Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas." classroom for its six weeks. There was, of mind-quick, lively, searching. The memoirs of Paul Douglas should make course, also the Board of Directors who main­ And stlll that same passionate concern for quite a story as a reflection of American poll· ly set up the program. social justice and the righteous indignation tics and life in the first seven decades of the When we arrived, among other things, we at wrongs and chicanery. 20th century. received a Syllabus which contained infor­ "I say it because it is true," former Sen. It is the story of a professor in politics, a mation on the different branches of govern­ Paul H. Douglas snap·ped tartly after he was distinguished economist-scholar (the Cobb­ ment which we were to cover. Every night gently reminded that perhaps an interview Douglas Function, see economics textbooks) we received a Presidential Daily which con- on the eve of his 80th birthday was not the who ventured into the harsh reality of every- March 28, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 10743 day politics as a city alderman from Chi­ "If he was righteous in causes, he was life" were spent in the Senate, Douglas also cago's South Side and specialized in prob­ never self-righteous about people," Shuman had several decades of achievement before lems of garbage collection. says. he entered the Senate at 56. It is the story of the 50-year-old patriot And the senator still has the buoying hope As a distinguished economistt, h!J.s applled who, defeated in his first run for the Senate, that sustains reformer. work on the theory of wages and prod.ucstion enlisted the next day as a Marine private, "Well, I'm not a pessimist," he said the is one of the betlrocks of c ·on~omry eco­ won the bronze star and two purple hearts other day. "It's a great source of relief in nomic analysis. The Coob-Dou151las Func­ in landings in Okinawa and Peleliu and was bowing out of politics to see new men tion-a mathematical formula set forth in left with a withered left arm from his war and good people coming up." >the 1920s-1s discussed a.t length in the re­ wounds. It is the story of the Democratic In the Senate, he points to such men as cenrt; Nobel Prize-winning work of Prof. Paul senator from Illinois, elected on his second Proxmire, Alan Cranston of California, Adlai A. Samuelson. try in 1948, who became the liberal goad of Stevenson III (whose father ran for governor "I once was an econom'ist," the senator the Senate, always in the forefront of the of Illinois on the same ticket with Douglas), says now wllth a rueful smile. "They are now figh14 for social advances in the crucial years Walter Mondale of Minnesota. And Douglas feed!J.ng informa;tion into the computers a;t of the 1950s and 1960s. always remembers Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Brookings Institution and coming out with And it also will be the story of Paul and who fought by his side in many of the old figua-es to support the formula." Emily Douglas, two people who share deep af­ battles. Born in Salem, Maine, Maroh 26, 1892- fection for each other and politics. Among the governors, Douglas singles out the New England twang bas been leveled a "I was the only man who ever succeeded my Florida's Reubin Askew and Ohio's John J. btt by the Midwest p•l.ains-Douglas remem­ wife in Congress," Sen. Douglas likes to point Gilligan as ",absolutely fine men." bers w\b.en mlill workers in Newport, Maine, out. Douglas also sees promise in the young were told not to vote for Bryan and the fac­ "Paul, why don't you say I was the only people. "We had a bad convention in 1968. tory Whistles sounded for 24 hours w:hen Mc­ woman who ever preceded her husband in But I see healthy signs with the younger peo­ Kinley was elected. Congress. It's women's lib these days," Mrs. ple working in politics, social causes, envi­ "And I grew up feel·ing it was . . . well, Douglas corrected her husband the other day. ronment." improper,'' he once told ·an interviewer. Emily Taft Douglas, a former actress, If some of the Douglas causes have come He was a friend of Jane Addams and Clar­ served as congresswoman-at-large from Illi­ in the fullness of time, there are those still ence Darrow. He helped organize the steel nois with the same constituency her husband being fought: cloture in the Senate, the workers. Even before entering polirtics as a was to represent when he was elected sena­ family allowance (Douglas proposed this idea Chicago cdty alderman in 1939, he was· one tor in 1948. as a young economist in 1925) , pollution, of the earliest advocates of old-age pensions Rugged, slouch-shouldered and bespec­ consumer protection, the vanishing wilder­ and unemployment insurance in the 1920s tacled, the economics professor came to ness of areas like the Indiana Dunes, disclo­ and 1930s, working with then New York Gov. Washington and soon plunged into the midst sure of campaign financing, tax reform. Fra.nklin D. Roosevelt and Pennsylvania Gov. of the early battles for social and reform leg­ When he talks of tax loopholes today, there Giffmd PlnchO!t. islation that came out of Congress in the fol­ are flashes of the old Douglas indignation. Now, the autobiography finished, there wlll lowing two decades. But he was too much "I think they say we-Lister Hill of Ala­ be two labors of love for the 80-year-old of a maverick ever to become part of the bama was with me--have saved the nation econom!J.st and former senator. Senate's inner circle. Douglas has a dramatic $4 billion up to now in blocking a clause First, another look at the theory of wages flair, which he employed effectively to focus that would have allowed offshore drilling in and prodlWtiVil.ty as a statistioM study. Then attention on the causes he was championing. the open ocean to take oil," the Senatm a s·tudy of the last days, the winter years There was a time that he wanted to take points out. of genius, in the lives of Beethoven, Shake­ a hatchet and scalpel on the Senate floor to In 1967, at 75, when he was no longer a speare, MiCihel,angelo, and Titian. demonstrate the difference between hacking senator but a private citizen, Douglas "A fine subject fm a crippled politician," and surgically pruning a budget. journeyed to Colorado to inspect the oil shale Douglas observes. "His staff talked him out of that one," re­ deposits there. It will be a fine subject for the senator calls Howard Shuman, who was the senator's The year before, defeated in his try for a w\b.o brought a graceful touch of erudition administrative aide for 14 years and now fourth term in the Senate, Douglas had made and oohola:rshtp to the Senrute. In Douglas' holds the same post with Sen. William Prox­ a graceful exit, giving a final accounting of former office, Suite 109 in the Old Senate mire (D-Wis.). his a..c;sets and income and thanking the 01fice Building, phOitographs of live poli­ "But he did go on the floor with a huge voters who had kept him in office 18 years. ticians never were hung. I:nstead, there were magnifying glass once. The public works bill It took two farewell pM"ties for all his friends studies of Michelangelo's majestic, bl'OOding was up for vote, and projects are sacrosanct and admirers to pay tribute. figures for the tombs of the Medici a:nd Titian to senators. Anyways, the senator came into In that race, Douglas campaigned with his reproductions. the chamber carrying a magnifying glass and usual vigor. But there was his age--he was As a campa!J.gner, DougLas was known to a large map. It seems there was a river-in 74 and his ohallenger, Charles H. Percy, was quote John Stuart Mill of "Spoon River New England, I think-mentioned for an ap­ 47, with the attractive face of new Republi­ .Ainthology" poetry to voters at the fa:ctory propriation and the senator couldn't find it can liberalism. There was the race backlash. 151ate. on the map." And there was the deteriorating war in Viet­ The other day, on the eve of her husband's Shuman remembers Douglas as "an abso­ nam, in which Douglas had been a firm sup­ 80th bLrthday, Emily Taft Douglas looked lutely honest man," even to avoiding the porter of the Johnson administration. fondly, bUit objeeltively, at her husband and phone calls that can swamp a ·senator's time. A pacifist in World War I from his Quaker said: "When he couldn't take a phone call, be­ upbringing, Douglas had gone to Europe in "He's a much handsomer man than the fore he would have his secretary say he was the 1930s and was in Italy when Mussolini man I married. He doesn't wear glasses any out of the office, he would open the door and sent his legions into Ethiopia. He warned of more. Ttb.ey ooy we make our own faces. It step out into the hall. I've seen him do it appeasement of Hitler. During World War II, is a good man that makes a good f'ace." numerous times." he was an enlistee in the Marine Corps, ac­ Once William McChesney Martin, disturbed cepting a commission only to get into battle over remarks attributed to Douglas in criti­ when he saw they were not going to send cism of Martin's fiscal policies, came up to 50-year-old riflemen overseas for combat. THE DELAWARE VFW HONORS the Hill to check with the senator personally. He still believes in collective security, of PRESIDENT DuBOIS The senator told him: "I honestly don't re­ "keeping our guard up while exploring the member saying that. But I've thought it a possibilities for peace." number of times so I suppose I could have After his 1964 defeat, Douglas went back HON. J. CALEB BOGGS said it." to work in a double harness. He returned to OF DELAWARE But the senatorial career of Paul Douglas teaching and served as head of the National has more substance than a collection of Commission on Urban Problems, making a IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES lively anecdotes. It is a career threaded with study at the time the incendiary cities were Tuesday, March 28, 1972 landmark legislation on the big issues that flaring up in riots and racial turmoil. the nation faced in the 1950s and 1960s. Per­ Soon after the Commission on Urban Mr. BOGGS. Mr. President, recently haps the most dramatic was the long fight for Problems made its report, the stroke hit the it was my privilege to attend a testi­ civil rights, crowned by the sweeping Civll senator's right side. His recovery was com­ monial dinner in honor of Mrs. Edith Rights Act of 1964. plicated by his war-disabled left arm and DuBois, president of the Ladies Auxiliary "As for 1964, that was done years earlier­ a fall abetted by a football knee (Douglas to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, De­ that was done in the hard years when we played center on the Bowdoin College team partment of Delaware. while winning a Phi Beta Kappa key.). could get only 20 votes or so,'' Douglas points This fine dinner was held at the J. F. In 1969, he returned a $5,000 check that out. "What was heresy then, the nation has Speer Post 615 in Wilmington, and it accepted, intellectually at least. Now remans went with an AFL-CIO award. While in the the pain of working it out." Senate, Douglas had set a $2.50 limit on the was heartening to be among the large Despite the acrimonious legislative fights value of any gifts he would ac