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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.