1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 2317 MEMORIALS· bia to hear, determine, and render judgme.nt gion, Boston, Mass., petitioning consideration on the claim of James Buckler against the of their resolution with reference to Israel Under clause 4 of rule XXII, District of Columbia; to the Committee on and the Middle East; to the Committee on The SPEAKER presented a memorial of the Judiciary. Foreign Affairs. the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, By Mr. PATTEN: 682. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon memorializing the President and the Con­ H.R. 9936. A bill for the relief of Giusep­ Park, Fla., to provide for a special appropria­ gress of the United States requesting the pina Restivo; to the Committee on the Ju­ tion bill to be called the independent regula­ National Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ diciary. tory agencies appropriation bill; to the Com­ tration to establish and locate its proposed By Mr. PEPPER: mittee on Appropriations. Electronics Research Center in the Delaware H.R. 9937. A bill for the relief of Gino 683. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon Valley, which was referred to the , Commit­ Torelli; to the Committee ' on the Judiciary. Park, Fla., to require in the curriculum of tee on Science and Astronautics. certain schools and· colleges, aided by con­ gressional appropriated Federal money, PETITIONS, ETC. courses in the language spoken by more peo- · PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS pie on earth than any other language, Man:.. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private 'Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions darin Chinese; to the Committee on Educa­ bills and resolutions were introduced and and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk tion and Labor. severally referred as follows: and referred as follows: 684. By Mr. PATTEN: Petition of Alexan­ 680. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Chester der M. Jones requesting legislation to make By Mr. BLATNIK: sure the Treasury Department adopts special H .R. 9934. A bill to authorize the construc­ A. Johnson, president, Michigan Farmers tion of a dam on the St. Louis River, Minn.; , Union, Homer, Mich., relative to the nuclear procedures to guarantee fair, wide, and im­ to the Committee on Public Works. test ban treaty; to the Committee on For­ partial distribution to all the people of the By Mr. LANKFORD: etgn Affairs. United States of the new John F. Kennedy H .R. 9935. A bill to confer jurisdiction on 681. Also, petition of M. Jacob Joslow. half dollar; to the Committee on Banking _the District Court for the District of Colum- American Jewish Congress, New England Re- and Currency.

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Loss of Freedom for Any Group Poses lective a_nd part in proportion to the work Where is the administration? Still off they do. · · making promises to buy votes at home, while Threat to All "Sponsors of the bill argued that legal fees the world smolde s and burns. were too high for ordinary people." Where is our foreign policy? Caught nap­ Commenting on the article, the Congress­ ping again. EXTENSION OF REMARKS man said "many lawyers seem unconcerned And how can we expect the same admin­ OF about the fact that some people in America istration, the same foreign policy fumblers would like to see the medical profession so­ who neutralized Laos-how can we expect HON. BRUCE ALGER cialized." Representative POFF, an attor­ them to do better in Vietnam? OF TEXAS ney and a member of the House Judiciary This new coup was a prates t against plans IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee, added: to neutralize ·Vietnam. But who invented "Because they are not personally and im­ the idea in Laos? The foreign policy advisers Thursday, February 6, 1964 mediately concerned, they have closed their of this administration. Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, many of eyes and ears to the threat. Lawyers would Can anyone be sure that we will not for­ do well to come to the aid of their sister pro­ sake southeast Asia again? Will words alone our people are concerned with legisla­ fession. Who can say that the next proposal suffice to reassure the besieged Vietnamese tion only when they are directly affected might not be legal aid to the aged, and next and the threatened peoples of Thailand and as a group or as individuals. The im­ medical and legal aid for everybody." Malaysia? I say they will not. They cannot portant truth is that the issues we face if they come from the same mouths that let in Congress are of vital concern to all Laos die and still permit the agony of in­ of the people. No group can have its decisive battle to continue in Vietnam. freedom taken away without the free­ Fumbling of Foreign Policy Basic Issue, This Nation has a great and fateful de­ doms of all other Americans being put in cision to make in Vietnam. It cannot make Says Goldwater it while its eyes are fixed on the hypnotic peril. gimmickry of vast new domestic spending This is something to think about when programs and political promises. It cannot we are asked to pass legislation which EXTENSION OF REMARKS make it under leadership that whistles past could lead to socialized medicine and OF the graveyard of its past mistakes, refusing putting the doctors under Federal con­ to face the hard facts of a hard and cold trol. I can assure all those in the other HON. BRUCE ALGER world. professions. it would not be long before OF TEXAS Panama shows this, too. Cuba shows lt. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES An entire hemisphere, troubled and pierced they, too, would become the victims of by Communist subversion, shows it. bureaucracy. Thursday, February 6, 1964 Where has Lyndon been while Panama The following editorial from the AMA burned? Fiddling with his political prom­ News sounding a warning issued to law­ Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, as the ises, telling the Nation that Republican criti­ yers by my good friend and colleague, problems confronting the United States cism amuses him-or maybe listening to his the gentleman from Virginia, Congress­ throughout the world multiply daily as Bobby Baker stero set. man RICHARD POFF, is well worth calling the administration seems more and more In Panama we didn't even have an Ambas­ to your attention: unable to cope with them. it is good to sador on hand when the shooting started. know that we do have a national leader We'd had warnings, but there was no one to "LEGALCARE" NEXT? who is speaking out for a firm policy in listen. And where does the situation stand Representative RICHARD H. POFF, of ,Vir­ defense of freedom. Under permission today? Stuck in the mud of indecision, as ginia, urged every lawmaker and law prac­ usual. titioner to take an interest in a recent news­ to extend my remarks in the RECORD I What has happened to the wall around paper article datelined Warsaw. He placed include an address by Senator BARRY Cuba that was supposed to keep it from ex­ the following news story in the CONGRES­ GOLDWATER at a luncheon meeting in porting murder and subversion throughout SIONAL RECORD: Minneapolis, Mi,nn., on February 3, 1964. Latin America? The wall crumbled even as "Poland's 5,700 lawyers w111 be forced into Senator GOLDWATER makes sense. He it was being built. Today it's not even a collectives under a measure ending private is speaking for the American people and chicken-wire fence. legal practice in the Communist nation. I am confident the overwhelming major­ Maybe this administration thinks that a "The bill was passed • • • by Poland's ity of them agree with him. public housing program for Castro would Communist-dominated parliament with only solve all the problems. Or more trade. Or five opposing votes. Although a client may Senator GOLDWATER'S address follows: more patience. still select his own attorney, fees will be set EXCERPTS OF REMARKS BY SENATOR BARRY Patience ls a virtue. But when patience by the government and paid to the lawyers' GOLDWATER, REPUBLICAN, OF ARIZONA becomes procrastination. it is a deadly vice. association. Part of the income w111 be di­ There is a new coup in Vietnam and the I say that this Nation has put otf its for­ vided equally among all members of the col- war there is drifting toward disaster. eign policy decisions long enough. CX--146 2318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE February 6 Now it is time to put up. Now it is time million residents. It is one of the most the New York State Legislature and since to produce, not just promise. I do not say progressive of all the 50 States. And coming to Congress. But let me say to the that I have, or that any one man has, all the with our State's growth and progress opponents of this bill, that it is the duty of answers or even most of the answers. this Congress to pass the bill; that failure to But I say, and I think that most Ameri­ have come growth and progress to do our duty will invite terrible consequences cans, most free men everywhere, say that we Lapeer County. too awful to contemplate. The most power­ have got to have those answers before it is The courthouse and the Press each. ful social revolution in our history is gaining too late. has played important parts in this prog­ in momentum; the Negro is demanding his This is the great issue of our time. Can ress. The courthouse is aging, but the constitutional rights now; we must recognize we and will we lead in the cause of free­ Lapeer County Press seems ageless. It the unshakable determination of the Negro dom? Or will we fall, will we fumble, will has changed with the changing times to escape from second-class status. The bill we fail? and continues to be a vibrant, effective, is entirely reasonable-it grants no special fa­ I charge that this administration is fum­ vors or privileges; it merely assures to Negroes bling, is falling. I charge that freedom is responsible and fairminded voice for the and others now wrongfully discriminated falling around the world. county and its people. It has been and against, the same rights and privileges which Let America's conscience, in the time we continues to be a dynamic force for good other citizens have forever taken for granted. have, be tested on this great issue. Let us in the community. One hundred years have passed since the say to the world and to the politicians who Mr. Speaker, it is entirely fitting and issuance of Lincoln's Emancipation Procla­ have brought us here, that we will not be proper that these two great institutions mation. One hundred years is a long time to ·bought away with pie in the sky. Let us be given the recognition they deserve on suffer under the evils of discrimination, to be put freedom into our skies and into the the occasion of their 125th anniversary. denied opportunities in education and em­ skies of the world. Let us debate this great 'ployment, to be denied the right to vote, a issue with the administration which is re­ decent place to live. One hundred years is sponsible for the failures and the fumbles. also a long time to give human decency, Your life, the life of freedom, the freedom moral persuasion, tolerance, love for one's of the world, and the world of your children Civil Rights fellow man, religious teachings, the chance depends on this great issue more than on any to eliminate and to overcome the discrimina­ other. EXTENSION OF REMARKS tion and injustices directed against genera­ We cannot wait and wait. We must start. tions of Negroes. Now patience is at an end; and we must win. OF a strong law is needed. HON. JACOB H. GILBERT This Nation has been pleased to assist people of other nations when they have OF NEW YORK thrown off the oppressive yoke of a dictator, Lapeer County Press and Lapeer County IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and when they have sought a democratic Thursday, February 6, 1964 form of government. Let us face the truth. Courthouse Observe 125th Anniversaries Right here in our own country we have per­ Mr. GILBERT. Mr. Speaker, I am mitted a dictator called discrimination to in­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS proud to serve as a member of the im­ flict cruelties, death of spirit, and inhumane OF portant Committee on the Judiciary of treatment upon millions of our people for a the House of Representatives which ap­ hundred years; they have been denied the HON. JAMES G. O'HARA rights guaranteed them under our demo­ proved the civil rights bill now being cratic form of government. The image we OF MICHIGAN considered by the Congress. I took a present to the world's family of nations is not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES very active part in the debate on the very attractive at this point; we cannot ex­ Thursday, February 6, 1964 bill which took place in the House of pect to have our words and pleas in behalf of Representatives and emphasized that it democracy accepted abroad when we live a Mr. O'HARA of Michigan. Mr. is important that the Congress pass the lie here. Speaker, I should like to take this op­ bill in its present form and that these are The conscience of every right-thinking portunity to salute two of the most ven­ the minimum benefits we should provide; American has now been aroused. State and erable institutions in Lapeer County, city officials, religious leaders, civic groups any watering down of this bill would be of all kinds, business organizations, labor Mich.-the Lapeer County Press and the entirely unacceptable to me. leaders, educational leaders, millions of in­ county courthouse. Each has made Civil rights and the elimination of all dividuals, have given us a mandate to pass an indelible mark on the growth, vitality discrimination based on race, color, re­ this civil rights bill. We, the representatives and progress of the county. ligion, or national origin, have always of the people, must obey that mandate. The County Press and the court­ been matters of major concern to me This bill would secure for Negroes and house, both of which are celebrating during my years of service in the New members of other minority groups their their 125th birthdays, have another York State Legislature and ever since rights regarding voting, public accommoda­ thing in common. They can be traced coming to Congress. I have introduced tions, desegregation of public fac111ties, back to the same man, A. N. Hart, who school desegregation, nondiscrimination in numerous bills to eliminate discrimina­ federally assisted programs, equal employ­ founded the newspaper and built the tion and to secure constitutional rights ment opportunity; it also contains other im­ courthouse. I wish to call this occa­ and protection for Negroes and members portant and helpful provisions. Although sion to the attention of my colleagues. of other minority groups; many of the the bill before us will not accomplish all our The Press and the courthouse have provisions of this civil rights bill are sim­ aims, it will go far toward correcting present witnessed many changes in Lapeer ilar to those contained in bills I intro­ glaring injustices, and it represents a good County and in Michigan in their 125 duced in the past. Following are some start toward our final goal. years of existence. The courthouse is of the statements I made during the de­ Think of this scene. A white father looks Michigan's oldest. The Press prides it­ bate in the House of Representatives: upon his newborn son. He is proud of his self as America's largest rural weekly. beautiful baby and says: "He'll be President This is one of the most gratifying and someday." Now think of this. A Negro It is also one of the best weekly news­ thrilling moments of my life. I am grateful father sees his son for the first time and is papers in America. and proud to be a Member of this Congress, equally proud of him. But immediately In 1839, when the Press and the court­ the greatest deliberative body in the world, fears and doubts come to his mind. He house first opened their doors, our Na­ which now has the privilege and duty of knows that as things now stand, his son will tion was only 63 years old. Our west­ assuring to Negroes and members of other not have good schooling, he will not be able ward expansion had barely begun; Mar­ minority groups in our country their con­ to achieve his full potential in education. or tin Van Buren was our President; Mich­ stitutional rights, so long denied them. By in employment, he will be insulted when he passing this blll, the most far reaching and tries to find lodging while on a journey, he igan had been a State for only 2 years, comprehensive civil rights bill ever con­ will be prevented from voting, his ambitions and its population numbered about 212,- sidered by the Congress of the United States, and hopes will die, he will be prevented from 000. we shall achieve an honored place in the establishing a home of his choice, he will Lapeer County, which supposedly history of our Nation. The opportunity to forever suffer under the scourge of discrimi­ takes its name from the French words, give renewed hope, a brighter future, dignity, nation because of the color of his skin. "LaPierre," was organized in 1835-just equality, and freedom, to millions of people, These evils of discrimination exist through­ 4 years before the Press published its does not come our way often; I am thank­ out our Nation. Negroes today say that for ful that I have been accorded that oppor­ many of them, the benefits provided by the first edition and the courthouse was tunity. bill before us come too late to change their built. I have used the word "opportunity," be­ lives to a great degree. But they demand, Today Michigan ranks seventh among cause I have been working faithfully toward now, that this law be passed and its provi­ the States in population with nearly 8 this moment during all my years of service in sions faithfully carried out. They want I

1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 2319 their children to have the opportunities lowing tribute is made to Admiral Pot­ American occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in provided by the bill and the protection and ter: July and August 1914; and during that year true freedom and equality they have never attended the Naval War College. During known themselves. They want to know that Rich in heredity and environment, en­ World War I in 1917-i8, as a member o! the their children will be able to find work com­ dowed with natural brilliance and courage, Navy Compensation Board, he handled mat­ mensurate with their ability, and to enjoy honored and loved, David Potter was never ters of the costs of naval vessels built at the dignity of equality with their neighbors. boastfully proud nor uncultured. Truly he civilian shipyards (until 1919). They want their children to face the world was one who could and did "talk with crowds He was fleet paymaster of the Atlantic with hope and courage, not heartache and and keep his virtue, and walk with kings, Fleet from 1919 to 1921, and in the rank of despair. nor lose the common touch." Attainments rear admiral he served as paymaster general One of the gravest problems of the.Negro were considered by him humbly as incidents of the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Sup­ today is job discrimination. Reports show arising from the performance of duty, while plies and Accounts from 1921 to 1925, during that the income, per capita, of U.S. Negroes honors and praise were gratefully accepted by which period he was a member of the Board is $1,100, of U.S. whites $2,450. We know him as inspira~ions to greater service. for Settlement of Claims arising from Treaty that Negroes are nearly always last to be The Secretary of the Navy afso paid Limiting Naval Armament, 1923. From 1926 l- hired and the first to be fired. Also, most tribute to Admiral Potter in a letter to 1930, he was a member of the Naval War of the employed Negroes in this country are Claims Board, and for 4 years thereafter was in the unskilled or semiskilled service trades, written to Mrs. Potter, shortly after the general inspector of the Supply Corps !or the because they have been denied educational admiral's death. The Secretary said: west coast. He relinquished the latter posi­ and training advantages enjoyed by the Your husband's record of mllitary service tion in March 1934, ul.timately to establish whites. This bill seeks to provide equal em­ is a distinguished account of more than and remain in charge of the Finance and ployment opportunity. The public accom­ four decades of naval progress. Loyalty, Supply School located at the Navy Yard, modations section of the bil will give to honesty, and extreme dedication to the high­ Philadelphia, concluding that duty in 1938. Negroes all over the United States a measure est standards of the Navy are the hallmarks After temporary duty at headquarters, of assurance against the ugly, cruel, destruc­ of his ~ife--a life which provides an outstand­ 12th Naval District, San Francisco, Calif., he tive and humiliating refusals of service ing example for all who wish to follow. I was transferred to the retired list of the which have made interstate travel a terrible hope the knowledge of his distinguished Navy on January 1, 1939. experience for them. achievements, and the deep appreciation of He has the Spanish Campaign Medal It is an indisputable fact that the future a grateful people, will bring some measure of ( 1898); the Ph111ppine Campaign Medal and well-being of our Nation depend upon consolation to you in your bereavement. ( 1899-1900); the Mexican Service Medal enactment of this civil rights bill. I sin­ (1914); and the Victory Medal (1918). cerely hope and pray that this Congress will A short biography on this fine gentle­ Admiral Potter has long been a member meet its responsibility and that we will now, man and dedicated naval officer follows: of the Army and Navy Clubs of Washington, finally, establish here in our Nation the true Rear Adm. David Potter, Supply Corps, D.C., and Manila, PhlUppine Islands; the democracy of which we have boasted, and U.S. Navy, retired. Princeton Club of New York; and the Shoe­ that all our citizens will be enabled to enjoy David Potter was born on December 19, maker Post of the American Legion CYf Bridge­ the equality and rights guaranteed them by 1874, at Bridgeton, N.J., son of William Elmer ton. N.J. He is the author of monographs our Constitution. Potter, counselor at law, major of Twelfth concerning the financial and supply affairs Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, Army of of the Navy, and has lectured on such mat­ the Potomac, 1862-65, and Mrs. Alice Eddy ters at various colleges. Potter. He attended Princeton University, His wife was the {ormer Jane Grey, daugh­ Princeton, N.J., where he was active in ath­ ter of Vice Chancellor Martin Phillip Grey The Late Rear Admiral David Potter, letics; a member of the Elm Club and the of New Jersey, to whom he was married at U.S. Navy, Retired Monday Night Club, Whig Hall; an editor CYf Salem, N.J., on April 23, 1904. Nassau Literary magazine; and historian of the class of 1896. He was graduated with a Mr. Stanger's brochure on Admiral EXTENSION OF REMARKS bachelor of arts degree in 1896, and the next Potter, dedicated to the Cumberland OF year became attorney at law and master of County Historical Society, sets forth the the court of chancery of New Jersey. distinguished Potter family genealogy. HON. MILTON W. GLENN Appointed assistant paymaster with rank It contains five articles written by Ad­ OF NEW YORK of ensign on February 18, 1898, he took the miral Potter and published in news media IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oath of offtce on February 25. He subse­ circulated in Bridgeton, N.J., which con­ quently rose to the rank of rear admiral in Thursday, February 6, 1964 the Supply Corps of the U.S. Navy, on No­ cern his boyhood and early days of man­ hood in Cumberland County, N.J. It tells Mr. GLENN. Mr. Speaker, in memo­ vember 24, 1937. He was transferred to the retired list CYf the Navy on January 1, 1939. of his outstanding service to the city of riam to the late Rear Admiral David Pot­ Upon acceptance of appointment as assist­ Bridgeton Chamber of Commerce and of ter, Supply Corps, U.S. Navy, retired, and ant paymaster in 1898, he was assigned to the the orations delivered by him in his na­ his distinguished record of service in the U.S.S. Katahdin, and after continuous sea tive city. It also gives an account ot Navy, I wish to take this opPQrtunity of duty in that vessel and others for 3 years dur­ Admiral Potter's literary achievements, inserting in the RECORD today a biog­ ing the War with Spain, 1898, and the Phllip­ which include six books of fiction, four raphy and other tributes to his outstand­ pines campaign in, 1899-1900, during which period he participated in the affair at Zapote novelettes, and one moving picture. Ad­ ing performance of duty. River in Luzon, June 13, 1899; at Cape Mel­ miral Potter also wrote a volume of Rear Admiral Potter died on December ville lighthouse in Balabac on July 13, 1899; memoirs, one biographical volume "New 13, 1962, at the age of 88. In a brochure at San Fabian, Luzon, November 7, and Zam­ Jersey Men in the U.S. Navy," 20 poems entitled "Rear Adm. David Potter Who boanga, Mindanao, November 16 CYf the same and 75 special articles. He also prepared Sailed the Seven Seas for His Country year; at Cagayan, Mindanao, March 29, 1900; and delivered many lectures and ad­ but Who Never Forgot the Friends and and at Oroquieta, Mindanao, October 1, 1900. dresses. Scenes of His Boyhood," compiled and Other naval vessels in which he served were: U.S.S. Buffalo; U.S.S. Boston; U.S.S. Adm. David Potter's record as a citizen edited by Francis A. Stanger, Jr.. of Manila; U.S.S. Hancock; U.S.S. Illinois; U.S.S . and as an officer in the U.S. Navy will Greenwich. N.J., member of the New Kearsarge; U.S.S. Mississippi; U .S .S. Minne­ long constitute a standard of patriotism Jersey bar, and president of the Cumber­ sota; and U.S.S. Pennsylvania He partici­ for adults and a guide to patriotic service land County Historical Society, the fol- . pated as fiscal offtcer of customs during the for all American youth .

the day a moment of devotion, a pavilion even in the seeming bafflements of these SENATE of Thy peace, as-trusting only in Thy tumultuous days. Take us, we pray Thee, as we are. FRIDAY, FEBRVARY 7, 1964 mercy-we bring our soiled souls to Thy cleansing grace. With unfulfilled purposes and disap­ The.Senate met at 10 o'clock a.m., and We come with heavy burdens on our pointed hopes, with impulses, strivings, was called to order by Hon. LEE METCALF, minds and hearts, for otir Nation and and longings so often frustrated and a Senator from the State of Montana. thwarted, and even with what is broken for our world. We come with deep and imperfect in us, may we be used to The Chaplain, -Rev. Frederick Brown anxiety concerning the tomorrows our Harris, D.D., offered the following make Thy radiant dreams for all Thy prayer: children and our children's children will children come true. inherit from our hands. Yet we live and We ask it in the name of Him who Our Father, God, we beseech Thee that labor in the confidence that-overruling made life a sacrament, and a cross a Thou wilt make this pause in the work of our failures-Thy truth is marching on, throne. Amen.