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SPEECH
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HON. D. R. (BILLY) MATTHEWS
PLORI0,1
IN THE HOUSE OF REP_RESEN'FATIVEH
Thursday, May 21, 1964
MATTHEW'S. Mr. Speaker, we
W,ee. all, saddened with_the_ recent pass-
ing of the great chairirian of our House
Conlmittee on Appropriations, the Hon-
orable CLARENCE CANNON,
Critics of the congressional committee
aster!) would do well to ponder the out-
Standing performance ,of the C,ommittee
on Appropriations,, Of the HOuse of ERP-
ros_cAta4tiNeS, kn9W of_ nO ,Man who
COulg nave, served More diligently or
effectivelY, more objectively or more
patriotically, as chairman of this com-
mittee than the Honorable CLARENCE
'CAN WON of Missouri, who was one of
Ithe most, distinguished ,products 01 the
Seniority system g opt committee pro-
cedure. should _like to point out fur-
ther tliM we are most fOrtunate to have
sucOeeding the great CLARENCE CANNON,
the _gentleman from Texas, the Hon-
Orabl_e, CiXDRox H. _MAH ON, I should like
also to observe that I know of no other
system which we could devise that would
,,now place as chairman of our House
CoiriznifeeP on Appropriations a more
distinguished, consecrated, and able
patriot than the gentleman from Texas
NI,anopr,l
I realize that we must in no way de-
tract from the lAniciue contribution of
the Honorable CLARENC,EXANNON in. Pay-
ing our eulogy' to this great American,
but I believe that one of the most effec-
tive tributes that could be paid to him
rtoUld be again to emphasize how effec-
tively the House Committee on Appro-
priations operated under Mr. CANNON'S
leadership. I pay tribute to this gentle-
man from Missouri because of his effec-
tive and consecrated work as chairman
of a powerful House committee.
I did not have the pleasure of know-
Mg the Honorable CLARENCE CANNON in
the warm personal relationship that
was enjoyed by so many of his colleagues.
I do, however, remember with deep ap-
preciation the tremendous service he
rendered his Nation, the courtly attitude
he always expressed in dealing with his
colleagues, and I, too, shall miss him.
The gentleman from Missouri, the
Honorable CLARENCE CANNON, expressed
to me more than any other man in the
House the "Character of the Happy
Warrior" so beautifully expressed by
William Wordsworth when he said:
- Who, if he rise to station of command
Rises by open means, and there will stand
On honorable terms, or else retire,
And in himself possess his own desire;
Who comprehends his trust, and to the
same
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim;
And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
For wealth or honors, or for worldly state,
Whom they must follow; on whose head
must fall,
Like showers of manna, if they, come at all.
express to 112r. Cmprow's widow, and
to, the people of, Missouri, my profound
sympathy because of the passing of this
Illustrious and noble man.
That Horrendous Supreme Court Decision
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
- OP
HON. WILLIAM M. TUCK
OF VIRGINIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. TUCK. Mr. Speaker, I wish to
bring to the attention of my colleagues
an editorial that appeared in the May 26,
1964, edition of the Richmond News-
Leader, a large and progressive news-
paper in Virginia. The editor, Mr. J. J.
Kilpatrick, is one of the ablest and most
noted writers in America.
The subject matter of this editorial is
the recent Supreme Court ruling con-
cerning the Prince Edward County
schools, and I would like all to read it
because it cites so pointedly the extent to
which the court seems to have gone be-
yond its legal prerogatives in reaching
this decision.
This decision must astonish all right-
thinking Americans, whether they be
from Virginia or any other State.
The editorial follows:
The Supreme Court of the United States,
speaking through Mr. Justice Black, yester-
day erected another of its milestone deci-
sions?a milestone, that is, to the decay of
the Constitution and to the arrogance of
judges.
This latest chapter in the Prince Edward
County case put squarely before the Court
one of the most profound questions of con-
stitutional law ever brought before our
highest Tribunal. In its simplest terms, the
question was whether the Federal courts
have power to compel a local legislative body
to levy taxes in order to perform a discre-
tionary act. This was a question that de-
manded full and serious exposition, for the
question was founded on bedrock principles
of American government?the principle,
among others, that taxation without repre-
sentation is tyranny.
The Court did not grapple with these prin-
ciples at all. Mr. Justice Black's opinion
amounts to no "More than a bland assertion
that of course the Federal courts are pos-
sessed of such power. "The district court
may, if necessary to prevent further racial
discrimination, require the supervisors to
exercise the power that is theirs to levy taxes
to raise funds adequate to reopen, operate,
and maintain without racial discrimination
a public school system in Prince Edward
County like that operated in other counties
in Virginia."
That is the heart of the opinion, wrapped
up in a single easy sentence. The Court's
seven-man majority did not spell out pre-
cisely how the district court is to accom-
plish this unprecedented step. "An order of
this kind is within the Court's power." That
was all the Court had to say.
The mind spins off in a dozen directions.
The gist of the Court's opinion is that "the
colored schoolchildren" of Prince Edward
since 1959 have been denied the equal pro-
tection of the laws. This is because "Prince
Edward children must go to a private sohool
or none at all," while "all other Virginia
children can go to a public school." But
our own Virginia Supreme Court of Ap-
pears has "ruled that under the laws and
constitution of Virginia, the State's system
of public schools depends entirely upon local
decisions. Within limits fixed by the State
constitution, a county Is free .to operate no
schools, some schools, or very elaborate
schools. This is what our highest State court
held in Prince Edward County v. Griffin,
that in Virginia, the operation of local
, schools is a local responsibility. The U.S.
Supreme Court, to the layman's bewilder-
ment, said yesterday that "We accept this
case as a definitive and authoritative hold-
ing of Virginia law, binding on us."
But the Prince Edward case is "unique."
It has been characterized by "entirely too
much deliberation and not enough speed."
Despite the fact that the "colored children"
of Prince Edward have not been denied one
single benefit, opportunity, or advantage
made available by the county to white chil-
dren, in some fashion perceived only by the
Supreme Court the colored children have
been denied "equal protection." This is be-
cause they do not have public schools while
all other counties do. But Prince Edward
has no control over what all other counties
do. That was the authoritative, definitive,
and binding decision of the Virginia Supreme
Court. One travels around in circles.
So District Judge Oren Lewis, who failed
wretchedly in drafting an order in the first ?
place, must now try again. He may "re-
quire the supervisors to exercise the power
that is theirs to levy taxes." How much
taxes? On what property or transactions?
At what rate? If the supervisors refuse to
levy taxes on their constituents against their
will, are the supervisors to be imprisoned for
contempt? If the supervisors resign, are new
supervisors to be similarly jailed? Or sup-
pose the supervisors, thus intimidated, levy
appropriate taxes, and the resentful people
of Prince Edward refuse to pay? To jail with
them too?
Other questions come to mind. The su-
pervisors, under this judgment, may be com-
pelled to levy taxes sufficient to maintain a
public school system "like that operated in
other counties in Virginia." What other
counties? Arlington? Fairfax? Henrico?
Or at the other end of the economic scale,
Tazewell, Scott, Buchanan? Total per pupil
costs range from $170 or $180 in some parts
of the State to $400 or $500 in others. In
one recent year. Arlington appropriated in
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local funds alone $383 per child; Nansemond
County appropriated $57 per pupil only.
The amount of taxes to be levied is a func-
tion not only of the quality of school to be
Maintained, but also of the number of pupils
to be educated, the ratib of teachers to pu-
pils, the salaries to be paid, the frills to be
provtded. It would seem to us inescapable
that Judge Lewis, explicitly or implicitly,
must pass upon all of these things, thereby
assuming the role not merely of Federal
judge, but also of county supervlsor, school
board, and school superintendent. Who
elected him to these offices?
With this decision. the American Republic
glimpses what Jefferson feared?a dictator-
ship imposed by judicial oligarchy. If the
Supreme Court may order it tax imposed for
One purpose, it may order a tax imposed for
any purpose. The principles of the Court's
1954 decision, limited at the outset to public
schools, swiftly were extended to parks. play-
grounds, swimming pools, libraries, bus ter-
minals, and hospitals. Many Southern com-
munities are hanging back from public
housing projects, lest they wind up with
Integrated housing projects. Are we to
understand that in such communities, Negro
plan/life May now =lapel the levying at
taxes to construct public housing facilities
like, those of Boston or New 'fork?
Only once before in the Court's history has
the Court attempted anything approaching
this grasp for power. That was in a bond
case, Where certain constitutional principles
of contract were involved in the payment of
a nonrecurring axed sUm. Here the super-
visors. are ordered to levy an Unspecified tax.
for the indefinite future, to operate schools
a undefined out; under threat of im-
prisonment, they are ordered to perform a
discretionary act contrary to the expressed
wishes of their people. This was the mile-
stone reached yetserday by the Court. It is
a milestone that stands far down a darken-
ing road.
Johnson and the People
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. CHARLES L. WELTNER
OP GEOliffle
IN tHE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. WELTNER. Mr. Speaker, a few
days ago, residents of the Atlanta metro-
politan area were honored by the visit
of President Johnson. Our city extended
to the President an almost overwhelm-
ing welcome, with crowds estimated at
one-half million people.
Quite naturally, this event generated a
great deal of public discussion.
I offer for enclosure in the RECORD the
comments of Ralph McGill and Eugene
Patterson, publisher and editor, respec-
tively, of the Atlanta Constitution:
JOHNSON AND rttz Pltotax
(By Ralph McGill)
? WASHINGTON, D.C.?It is quite possible that
President Lyndon Johnson is ciceer to the
American people than are the pundits and
the voices of press and radto. There are
thoee in the Capital City, used to the clean
intellectual prose that was a part of the ele-
gant, overall style of the late John Kennedy,
who profess to lind a high corn content in
commentaries of L.B.J. This makes them
wince.
But Mr. Johnson is not supposed to be
another Nennedy. He is Lyndon Johneon.
onetime schoolteacher, Whose mother had a
total of 925 when her husband died. Be
worked his way through the email, obscure,
sun-baked Southwest State Teachers College.
His accent "belongs to be" different. He
Is a direct man. He knows how to speak
concisely, clearly, and persuasively. His
phrases are not honed on a whetstone of
classical Greek. Latin, and a familiarity with
the poets. But, he communicates as did John
Kennedy. The President may be at his very
best in small group., rather than in address-
ing vast audiencea. But, he is by no means
at a loss with either.
TRIIMA WS TASTE
There was objection, one may recall, to Mr.
Truman's fiat Miesouri twang and, more es-
pecially, to his taste in sport shirts. The
louder they were, the better. In fact, once
Mr. Truncrua learned that the loud patterns
annoyed the more effete, the more he sought
for garish, clashing colors. Odious compari-
sons were made between bls style and that
of ebullient and dramatic F.D.R. When Mr.
Truman called feuding groups together to
knock heads, it was said by some he "de-
meaned" the office. A critic said exactly this
of L.B.J. when he got the railway unions
and operators together in a last-ditch effort
to avoid a strike and to save the processes
of negotiation.
What we also have before us is an expla-
nation of why there is quite a difference be-
tween the two parties?the Democratic and
the Republican. There is, admittecUy, no tie
that binds Governor Rockefeller and Senator
GOLDWATER. Harold Stassen and Richard M.
Nixon have little in common. The Arizona
redeemer has no philosophy to share with
Henry Cabot Lodge.
There is, however, a very strong tie between
the late John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.
Johnson as there was between Harry S. Tru-
man and Pranklin D. Roosevelt, There Is a
thread of political principle, or philosophy,
that reaches all the way up from Jefferson
to Johnson. The President is carrying out
principles expressed and delineated by Mr.
Kennedy. They are principles that have
evolved with the Nation itself. It is these
principles that continue to hold the party
of many minorities and differences together.
A men from Hyannis Port and Harvard may
believe in them u well as a man from South-
west Teachers College and Johnson City.
cern. RIGHTS
So, we find Mr_ Johnson going along very
well. The civil rights light will hurt him
sotne?but how could it be otherwise? Those
who fight the bill aren't going anywhere.
The Nation must treat all its citizens alike.
It hasn't done so. Either American citizen-
ship is commonly and equally held or it isn't.
A President can't get really hurt standing for
that principle. Some say they And it hard to
"identify with him." This has been true of
all Presidenta ? ? ? there alwaye were those
who didn't warm to them. It is difficult to
follow a man like John F. Kennedy.
But. if we look back in history, we find
that it was a country lawyer and soldier, An-
drew Jackson, who reformed the bank, who
brought Texas into the Union. who broke
the theory of interposition and established
the essential principles that the eloquent
philosopher. Jefferson, had written into the
Declaration of Independence.
Performance counts most.
Hr SETTLED RAILS?S0 WHAT?
(By Eugene Patterson)
Lyndon Johnson is emphatically south-
ern. He understates what he is, instead of
posing as something more than he 1. He
retains his prairie talk in the presence of pro-
fessors. He gloves his claws in courteay but
wears his feelings on his sleeve.
Closing a talk to editors in the White
House rose garden, he waved his hand and
said, "Come in the house."
The scene wag Jacksonian. Marine mu-
sicians, who used to sit massed in the en-
trance hall playing chamber music, were
dispersed in combos playing dance rhythms.
The President was quickly on the east
room floor, dancing first with one editors
lady, then another. The Marines had to
play "Good Night, Ladies" half a dozen times
before the overstaying guests made for the
door.
During the dancing some women wept, re-
membering John F. Kennedy and his austere
entertainments. They were stiff functions,
and crowds representing cross sections of
America were made a little uneasy by the
formality, but they also were impressive by
their majesty, and besides, many loved Mr.
Kennedy fiercely.
Mr. Johnson'a old-shoe use of the White
House made a clashing contrast and some
criticized him. But the thoughtful ones
gave Mr. Johnson credit due.
He, more than anyone else, knew unfavor-
able comparisons might be drawn. But he
was honest enough to be himself anyway.
He knew that any effort by him to pretend to
the elegance of Mr. Kennedy would be hol-
low. As he said on the night he became
President, he will do the best he can for that
is all he can do. He has the honesty to be
himself. Until the value of this fact regis-
ters on many otherwise sophisticated Ameri-
cans, he is going to be resented and hooted
at.
Lyndon Johnson is a President southern-
ers can understand instinctively. They know
the power and the judgment that can reside
behind the homely front. But other
Americans are having to work at it to under-
stand this man and his unfamiliar ways.
Theirs is not entirely a prejudice against the
southern manner, but some of that is pres-
ent, even if unintentionally_ The Presi-
dent must have the help of his fellow
southerners if he 18 to succeed in reestab-
lishing national faith in southern leader-
ship that existed in the founding days of
the Republic.
If his native region is the very one to
undercut or lowrate his alms and intentions,
he will be crippled in his historic efforts to
regain understandlng of the South's leader-
ship worth, and of his own.
Eventually results will speak for them-
selves. The President engineered a rail
strike settlement by leadership methods
without modern parallel. This remarkable
success, and others that may come, can
create an appreciation and a trust after
awhile.
But right now President Johnson especi-
ally needs, beyond all party argument, the
hand of his own region's people. He is
deeply troubled by the misunderstandings
he is encountering. He needs the South's
help because he?a southerner?is em-
barked on nothing less than a missionary
effort to reunite the land in all its parts
and peoples. He is better equipped for it
than Tennessee's Andrew Johnson was in his
day. The question facing the southern
people is whether we are.
Allies' Cuban Sales May Be Expensive
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
Or
HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI
OV ILLIN OIS
M THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr, DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, we
all recognize the continuing problems
that beset us in our relationship with
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-Cuba, and daily recognize the "head in
'the ip:ila*1 attitude Of the administration
On'this uesti?n.' -
iteeen 'evident that
the -adininistration is making moves,
seemingly to hilt-the flew of our allies'
support of the Castro government and
the ineffectiveness of these moves is
evident.
featured in
this ern-Pha.:.
.sizes, the: economic probrein lading the
Castro Ma-Chine in ai?I -article which
dramatizes the potential for lemdval of
Communist control of Cuba, if we had a
foreign policy that was determined to
_
produce this.
The -Ortiele lellewS ? -
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Bliot Janeway)
, , ,
W _ YORK, 14a7 .26.?The "price "Sugar
- luts dropped again. With tile world economy
-
booing, and With other-conifnedity prices
"rising in response to strengthened demand,
'the_ sugar marketis nevertheless a shambles.
Thia.fe of interest to others than housewives
'and 'inan'ilfactuteri-Of Candy' liara and- soft
drinks.' conipa-on prildenee-dietates that it
'Should be of .iiiterefit` to our various allies
who have been-asserting do idgorously their
Tight to do business with 'Castfers-
IVor Cuba -is a ona-crop, economy, and her
Oredit. is tied to the price of anger. What
Cuba needs to :0.4 are manufactured prod-
' ticta, particularly expensive heavy equipment
'like the big buses' 'the British have just
sold her.: The -Only way they and our other
allies can Crack whatever -Market Cuba of-
f era is by Shipping on -Credit?long"-term
'credit '
'
As a tTitttical: `Matter; this Means that
,the countries selling to Cuba are paying out
cash for the raw materials they must import,
for the labor they "musthire to fabricate
? pods; aricf for the shipping and Insurance
they must buy each time they deliver a prod
-
'act -
ACCEPT NOTES IN RETURN
In return, they are accepting IOU's: That
IS, they are paying out their own cash for
the privilege of buying a raffle ticket on
Cuba's future stability?a raffle ticket, more-
over, that may c-ost them -Millions of dollars.
Each time the price of sugar wobbles or
sinks, this looks like a chancier bet.
Cuba, of course, all along has had some
'cash, and still has. Trouble is, she isn't using
it to pay for the hard industrial goods which
her economy needs so desperately (and
which the p..s. Governrrialit arid U.S. business
*era Installing there before Castro took
over). '
The iraport of the wherdivithal for indus-
trial deVelopinent does not claim a priority
?,On-,011's_ cash:Wit" the- expOrt of political
'
trouble- does. ijne million-dollars a month
- to buy the Chilean election "for' 'the Com-
pitis WhateVer it took to bring
Brazil to the rekibliition and Pan-
ama to mob rule In the Streets:?Or -even to
send- a bearded military 'adviser or two to
far-Off E nvibar?for this Cuba can pay
cash. And so She Will continue 'to spend her
cash on the export of violence as long as our
allies bank her. '
NOf KM/
World politics being ld pOiities
a foreign politician' hi eVen the friendliest
countrieS CSH get-gOod Mileage. out of tell-
ing the 'United States to mind its own busi-
ness. This is the story, of the argument over
the right Of 'Europe Etna Canada to sell. to
Cuba,
The fact of the matter,is #.at we haven't
put any muscle info an effOrt to stop this.
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All that we've done has been to advise our
good friends that they may be throwing good
money after bad.
They may begin to figure this out for them-
selves as the price of sugar drops; as Italy
is forced to reborrow dollars after she's dug
herself into a hole by just such self-defeat-
ing finance; and as the West Germans warn
the British to stop doing it while there's
Still time to avoid trouble. A Cuba at war
with her natural U.S. market and with the
democratic ideal of the hemisphere cannot
be a good credit risk.
The Mythical Civil Rights Bill
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. MORRIS, K. UDALL
oS' sa,izeism
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, the time
has come for the American people to
take note of the reason why the debate
is extending so long on the civil rights
bill. It is not that reasonable men can-
not agree on a reasonable course of ac-
tion to correct known injustices. It is
simply that we are debating two differ-
ent bills at the same time?the actual
civil rights bill, passed by the House by
a very substantial margin of Democrats
and Republicans, and the mythical civil
rights bill, conjured up by elements in
our society wishing to preserve the status
vie, however unjust.
Recently the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
published an editorial distinguishing how
the actual and mythical bills differ in 12
important respects. The editorial was
read by William R. Mathews, editor and
publisher of the Arizona Daily Star in
'Tucson Ariz and he in turn published
an editorial on 1VIay '2/, 4964, agreeing
in all respects with the Post's points but
expressing some concern over one par-
ticular provision of the bill as it passed
the House.
I found this analysis illuminating and
wish to call it to the attention of my
colleagues. The Arizona Daily Star edi-
torial follows:
CORRECTING THE Sr. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Under the title of "The Mythical Rights
Bill," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published
an illuminating editorial on the civil rights
bill now before the Senate. It is Illumi-
nating, because it not only explodes numer-
ous myths about what is in the bill, and is
not in the bill, but astonishingly condones
a provision in it that forbids American citi-
zens from "threatening or coercing others to
disobey the law." It makes little of this
provision In the following words, "which is
a far cry from the denial of free speech and
press."
The Star thinks differently, although it
approves of all of the points as explained by
the Post-Dispatch, from No. 1 to, but not in-
cluding, No. 12. This Offending Provision
would forbid the very civil rights demonstra-
tions that are being carried on today by Ne-
groes all over the country.
The purpose of civil rights demonstrations
is to threaten and coerce. Lndeed,Athe free-
dom to threaten and coerce are civil rights
that have been practiced by Americans since
the Boston Tea Party" down to the time of
the Volstead Act and much other legislation.
Those forms of criticism go on constantly in
a wide variety of ways. If such a prohibition
Is legal in the civil rights bill, it can be made
legal in all other legislation.
It is a denial of free speech, and the right
"peacefully to assemble" which the Consti-
tution guarantees every American. It makes
no sense to grant Negroes and others the
same civil rights that all Americans should
enjoy, and then in such legislation forbid the
right to "threaten and coerce." This pres-
ent bill would not be before Congress. It
would not have passed the House, unless
Negroes; in their programs of civil disobe-
dience, had threatened and coerced. Indeed,
it will take some more of their threats and
coercion to get the present bill through the
Senate.
. The Post-Dispatch's editorial follows:
"As the Senate's civil rights debate goes
into its 10th week, it is obvious that sup-
porters and opponents of the rights bill are
not talking about the same kind of bill at all.
- "Proponents are discussing the bill actually
"before the Senate. The opponents, for pur-
poses of fright propaganda, have in effect
drafted a mythical bill that they oppose. It
has the following provisions:
"1. The Federal Government and not the
States will now fix voting qualifications.
(The real bill only says States cannot enforce
racial discrimination against voters.)
"2. Public schools must be brought into a
racial balance. (The real bill specifically
rejects that idea.)
? "3. Employers must hire from minority
groups by quotas. (The real bill only says
an employer cannot refuse to hire an ap-
plicant solely because of his race or re-
ligion.)
"4. The Federal Government can deny all
aid to any State that affronts the purpose of
the bill. (The actual bill permits denial of
aid to projects?not to States?that create
racial discrimination.)
"5. Hotel, restaurant, and entertainment
operators must admit any ill-behaved, ill-
dressed citizen who seeks entrance. (Non-
sense; the bill only says the operators can-
not refuse entrance solely because of race or
religion.)
"6. The Government is authorized to tell
homeowners to whom they must sell their
homes. (The bill does not even discuss such
housing matters.)
"7. Private clubs must admit Negroes (or
Mexicans, Catholics Protestants, Indians,
Jews, etc.). (The actual bill exempts private
clubs.)
"8. The Attorney General will be a dic-
tator. (The bill allows him to go to court
to seek enforcement of the law.)
"9. Well, then, Federal judges will be dic-
tators. (They are empowered to issue in-
junctions to enforce the law, which is hardly
unusual.)
"10. Jury trial will be denied in rights
cases. (The issue does not come up in the
present bill, since it provides only for civil
actions. Jury trial is not today required
even for criminal contempt cases, but the
bill may be amended to permit it.)
"11. Enforcement of the rights bill requires
Federal police everywhere. (The bill re-
quires no police anywhere; largely, it leaves
enforcement up to court action by those ag-
grieved.)
"12. It shall be illegal to discuss segre-
gation, or to express discriminatory thoughts.
(The bill prohibits anyone from threatening
or coercing others to disobey the law, which
is a far cry from denial of free speech and
press.)
"In short, the whole picture of the rights
bill drawn by southern propagandists is one
of a terrible tyranny being forced upon a
majority of Americans in the name of a mi-
nority. We are asked to believe that this is
the sort of horrendous plot for which the
House voted by an overwhelming 290 to
130. How silly can propagandists get?
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"The answer to that question seems to be
that they will be as silly as necessary to avoid
any honest discussion of the facts of the
civil rights case. Fearing facts, they insist
upon constant repetition of hokum. That is
the content Of their mythical bill."
Stage-Managed Poverty
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OP
HON. BRUCE ALGER
OP Texas
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, an Asso-
ciated Press story which appeared in the
Chicago Tribune of May 26 should
arouse more than casual interest from
the American people. It appears the ad-
ministration is carefully staging the
visits of the President and the First Lady
to so-called poverty areas. The Asso-
ciated Press story reveals the William
David Marlow family of Rocky Mount,
N.C., are a little put out at the whole
business. They did not even know they
were poverty stricken until the Presi-
dent told them.
It. would seem to me, Mi. Speaker, that
there should be some limit to the extent
the campaign to win votes is carried. At
the very least, responsible politicians
should respect the dignity and intelli-
gence of the people. Holding some of
our citizens up to ridicule, causing ill
? feeling among their neighbors, and us-
ing stage tricks to improve the story is
not worthy of the office of President of
the United States. Surely, if such per-
formances are required to sell the John-
son poverty program, the whole project
Is open to suspicion.
The Associated Press story on the
Marlow framily follows:
MADE TO LOOK POOR, FARM FAMILY SAYS?
INSTRITCTIONS FOR JOILNSON VISIT TOLD BY
Wire
Roczy Mourn, N.C., May 25.?The William
David Marlow family has had hardly a min-
ute to itself since President Johnson dropped
in by helicopter for a visit May 7.
"We've been talked at. talked to, talked
about, and throwed off on (criticized)," said
Mrs. Marlow, 40, a sharecropper's wife with
sun-bleached hair and strong features.
"There's_ been about as much excitement
Since he left as while he was here," she
added, recalling what has happened since
Johnson's visit.
DwiNns ON CROPS
Hundreds of persons have driven past their
door, she said, and many have come at night
to shine their lights on the house to see what
It looks like.
Mrs. Marlow said some of the neighbors
have appeared jealous of the attention re-
ceived by the family, which lives 2 miles
south of Rocky Mount and depends on to-
bacco and cotton for a living.
"But we didn't invite the President," she
said. "Be invited hini.seltd
Cars came, by all afternoon and night after
the President left, she said The next day,
the children counted 118 carloads of people.
Some stopped-to talk.
A S4,000 INCOME EXPECTED
"We've missed Several days' work and don't
expect to get one thing out of it," Mrs. Mar-
low said "I've burned my husband's lunch
three times while / was answering questions,"
she added. "He's getting pretty ill about It,
Marlow said he expecte to gross about
44,000 from his 9 acres of tobacco and Ii%
acres of cotton this year and perhaps have
91.800 clear with which to start the next
year.
This would be much more than the 91.500
the President suggested during their con-
versation. Johnson apparently thought that
would be the total for the year before living
expenses were subtracted.
Mrs. Marlow said: "We didn't even feel
like we were in poverty. We thought we were
on our feet for the first time in 4 years. And
along come the word that were the poorest
folks in the country."
PLENTY or LOVING
Mrs. Marlow said her five children "have
always had plenty to eat and plenty of lov-
ing. We're a close-knit group."
Pointing to a newspaper picture of Dr.
George Smith. associate director of the North
Carolina Extension Service. Mrs. Marlow
said. "The Governor's man tried to make us
look poorer than we are."
She said Smith "told me to be sure and
have a washing on the line when the Presi-
dent came and also be sure the children were
barefoot when the President arrived."
In Raleigh, Smith said he did not intend
to Make the Marlowe look any better or any
worse but to make them appear homey. He
said the President wanted the Marlows "to
act natural."
Mrs. Davis Grant
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OP
HON. OLIN E. TFAGUE
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, May 27, 1964
Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker,
the Friday, May 15, issue of the Austin
Statesman. Austin, Tex., carried an arti-
cle which was of personal interest to me
in view of the fact of my close personal
relationship with the entire family. The
article which I will include at the close
of these remarks deals with the gradua-
tion of Mrs. Davis Grant, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bassett J. Orr, of Bryan,
Tex. Mr. Davis Grant is the General
Counsel for the Texas Bar Association,
and was formerly employed on a spe-
cial subcommittee here in the U.S. Con-
gress engaged in investigative work.
I take pleasure in saluting Mrs. Grant
and extending my congratulations to
her.
"MRS. AUSTIN" Due DEGREE?KEEP/NG
Paosnaz
(By Anita Brewer)
Ann Grant was "Mrs. Austin" in 1958 be-
cause she could cook liver and onions so
well, iron a man's shirt to perfection, and
looked like a million dollars.
When she won the title, someone asked
her what were her plans for the future.
"I'd like to go back to the University of
Texas and earn my derive." she answered.
On May 30 before the President of the
'United States and her husband and five
children, the degree will be awarded to Mrs.
Grant. It will represent many nights of
burning midnight oil, many suppers cooked
-by her husband?Davis Grant. general coun-
sel for the State bar of Texas, and many
dresses and blue jeans ironed by her
daughters.
Her degree Is in elementary education with
emphasis on speech therapy, and she has
some more plans now for the future: She
will teach next fall in the Austin public
schools, at Highland Park School around the
corner from the Grant home at 3311 Big
Bend.
While Mrs. Grant has been going to school,
the children have learned to be independ-
ent?and even to handle emergencies. Just
last week. 8-year-old Richard and 10-
year-old John were home alone one after-
noon after school. Richard fell, cut his chin
and chipped a tooth.
John said, "Now lie still and bleed quietly.
rn get help."
And he did?good help. He got M. K.
Rage, Jr., principal of Highland Park School.
Everything was all right in no time.
? Both 14-year-old Kathy and 12-year-old
Melissa know how to sew, iron, and cook?
because they have had to help their mother.
As a result, they always are well groomed
and they will be even when their mother
isn't there to check up on their hair and
fingernails.
Davis. the 16-year-old, is an independent
self-starter also. He is in the 10th grade at
McCallum High School and works 3 af-
ternoons a week at Handy Andy.
All year?in fact for the 3 years Mrs.
Grant has been going to school?things
around 3311 Big Bend become mighty quiet
about 8:30 p.m. That's when everybody
starts studying.
While Mrs. Grant has enjoyed her class-
work and the inspiration of going to school,
she warns her daughters that she did it the
wrong way.
"I'm all for a girl getting her education
before marriage and five children," she says.
"But it can be done either way."
She looks forward to teaching.
"I've always wanted to be a teacher," she
says, "and for 15 years I operated a kinder-
garten and first grade. But I'm really look-
ing forward to the future."
Another happy event Is due soon for the
Grants. Mrs. Grant's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bassett Orr, will be returning in El few weeks
from Ugandi where Orr has been stationed
with the Agency for International Develop-
ment?but not soon enough to see their
daughter graduate.
Negro Leader Warns of Demonstration
Costs
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. JOHN BELL WILLIAMS
or MISSISSIPPI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 21, 1964
Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, a
prominent Negro, retired Army Maj,
Hughes Alonzo Robinson, has spoken out
on the subject of racial demonstrations
and their ultimate effect on his race.
Because his forthright views are of in-
terest to the House, I include the follow-
ing article written by Major Robinson
which first appeared in the Albany. Ga.,
Herald:
Nemo LEADER WARNS OF DEMONSTRATION
COSTS
EEO/TOWS NOTE.?The following article,
written by a Negro, appeared in the February
6 issue of the Albany (Ga.) Herald. Maj.
Hughes Alonzo Robinson, a prominent gov-
ernment and military figure who now makes
his home In Fort Valley, Ga., is a retired
Army officer, educator, and industrial execu-
tive. Feeling that his people were being led
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