BILLS TO CREATE A FREEDOM COMMISSION AND FREEDOM ACADEMY

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? APPENDIX
ing's ears," Clymer recalled, "the Governor
sadly admitted that his appointment was
his 'big mistake.'"
It was such fearlessness in the face of au-
thority, Clymer said, that helped make the
SalMa Journal a good newspaper under Aus-
tin's leadership.
SERVED AS CHAIRMAN
Gov. John Anderson reappointed Austin
to a 4-year term on the board of regents in
1962. He was the chairman in 1961.
Austin, an honor graduate of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, is a past president of the
Xansas Associated Press and is a trustee of
the William Allen White Foundation.
In receiving the citation, Austin said of
his experience with White:?
"You learned to write by writing. You
learned to report by excavating the facts
and putting them together accurately.
You were a showman and a gossip. You
lived by surprise. You also were a historian
devoted to truth, however dark the glass.
"You were a booster and a critic, a father
confessor * * * a political huekster and a
statesman, an errand boy and a prophet.
"But first of all you were a reporter, using
your legs, your eyes, and your brains and
writing the Kansas language."
The annual meeting of the White Founda-
tion is held on February 10, the birthday of
the famed editor of the Emporia Gazette
who died in 1944.
Repair lob Needed
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JAMES C. AUCHINCLOSS
OF NEW JERSEY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 13, 1964
Mr. AUCHINCLOSS. Mr. Speaker,
while I am definitely in favor of ade-
quate legislation strengthening the civil
rights of all our citizens, I must confess
that I voted for H.R. 7152 with very, little
enthusiasm. Judging from conversation
with my colleagues, I learned that many
had a 'similar feeling.
This lack of enthusiasm was due very
largely to the fact that the measure was
brought to the floor of the House without
the careful and penetrating study which
such an important and all-embracing
measure deserves and demands. Fur-
thermore, it gives to the President and
others very broad authority that could
be abused to the everlasting detriment of
our Nation if exercised by irresponsible
or politically minded people.
I feel confident and, indeed, I hope my
confidence is well founded, that before
taking final action on it the Senate will
give this measure the study and pene-
trating analysis which it deserves. My
thoughts in this respect are well ex-
pressed and summed up in the attached
editorial which appeared in the Evening
Star of Tuesday, February 11, entitled
"Repair Job Needed." This editorial
analyzes the bill passed by the House
in a constructive manner with a spirit-of
helpfulness, and it appears to me it is
based on unassailable foundations. The
editorial follows:
, REPAIR JOB NEEDED
The House now has passed whet has aptly
been described as the most far-reaching civil
rights bill ever put before Congress. This is
no exaggeration. And as enacted by the
House, the bill is very much in need of an
overhaul.
The fact is that the bill?though new civil
rights legislation is both desirable and neces-
sary?did not receive anything like adequate
consideration in the House. A few facts will
illustrate the point. At present, there are
432 Members of the House. Every quorum
call was answered by at least 400 Members.
So the legislators were in attendance. But
in votes taken on 21 issues affecting the bill,
some of them of great importance, the aver-
age was 131.7 against amendment and 64.6
in favor. Why did less than half of the
House membership take part in the debate
and in the votes on amendments? Simply
because those who were against the bill or
who wanted to modify it, Republican's as well
as Democrats, knew they were beaten be-
fore the first speech was made. They had no
stomach for the fight and were more than
willing to pass the battle on to the Senate,
meanwhile trying to harvest a little partisan
hay.
In the Senate, where the steamroller
tactics so effectively used in the House can-
not be employed, the entire bill will receive
the-careful consideration it deserves. This is
proper. For a meaningful civil rights bill,
when it becomes law, will have' a profound
effect?not only in the South, but in other
sections of the country as well. It is better
to consider it with care now than to regret
ill-advised action later on.
There are three aspects of the House-ap-
proved bill which we think are especially in
need of repair work in the Senate.
One is the failure of the bill to provide for
jury trials in contempt proceedings except
In title II, which concerns public accommo-
dations. Critics asked why, for instance, was
no jury trial provision contained in title III,
relating to desegregation of public facilities.
The answer was that defendants under this
title generally would be public officials, and
why give them jury trials? This is strange
doctrine in legislation which is supposed to
have some relationship to equal protection
of the laws. Because a man is a public of-
ficial does not make an indeterminate jail
sentence at the hands of some arbitrary
judge any more palatable?or equitable. We
think that in all cases the jury trial provi-
sions of the civil rights act of 1957 should be
incorporated in this bill.
Our second point concerns title VI, author-
izing the cutoff of Federal funds as an ai
to desegregation and fair treatment.
This section vests an enormous power in
the hands of the President and his subordi-
nates. That it could be outrageously abused
by a politically minded and irresponsible
President is beyond question. The late Pres-
ident Kennedy was asked at a press confer-
ence last April about a Civil Rights Commis-
sion recommendation that the President seek
power to cut off or suspend Federal aid funds
to States which fail to comply with the Con-
stitution and the laws. Mr. Kennedy's an-
swer was that it probably would be unwise
to give the President that kind of power.
Our feeling is that this section in the
pending bill needs to be much more care-
fully drawn. Funds can be cut off when
there has been a finding that a person has
been subjected to discrimination. But dis-
crimination is not defined. What, precisely,
does it mean? We agree with the observation
that, under this section, the innocent are
damned with the guilty if a Federal execu-
tive agency can terminate Federal prcigrams
in an entire State or in some geographical
portion of a State because one citizen was
'discriminated' against by one State official
or by a fellow citizen. There is the further
point that in the South at least Negroes
would probably suffer most when Federal
aid is cut off.
Our third objection goes to title VII, gen-
erally known as the fair employment practices
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section. This section hits hard at both
management and union practices which keep
. Negroes from obtaining jobs commensurate
with their abilities. We wholeheartedly
agree that legislation to accomplish this is
needed. The pending proposal, however, is
a draftsman's horror. Once again, key terms
are not defined. No standards of evi-
dence are set forth to guide the commission
which would be created to administer the
section. In the absence of standards, the
commission might readily fall back on some
form of quota system, which, by all means
should be avoided. If this section is ac-
cepted by the Senate, it should first be dras-
tically overhauled, tightened up, and clarified.
That this bill was railroaded through the
House is beyond dispute. Representative
MEADER, Republican, of Michigan, is a believer
In civil rights and was a member of the
Judiciary subcommittee which initiated
work on this bill. At first, he says, the
measure was seriously considered. Then a
curidtis change took place. Without any de-
bate in the subcommittee, three sections
were suddenly added by the majority?
FEPC, broader powers for the Attorney Gen-
eral to intervene in suits, and a more sweep-
ing public accommodations section. Then,
on October 29, the full committee knocked
out the language of the subcommittee bill.
Substitute language, which was not drafted
by the committee and the origin of which
is not clear, was approved. Mr. MEADER first
saw the completed draft when a copy was
delivered to his home at 10:10 p.m. on the
following Monday. The committee met the
next morning at 10:30 and declared the bill
not subject to amendment. That afternoon,
following a recess necessitated by a meeting
of the House, the bill was reported out.
Fortunately, this sort of thing can't hap-
pen in the Senate. The Senators will go
over the bill line by line and clause by clause.
We hope that an effective bill will be brought
to a vote after full debate and passed with-
out a filibuster. This will not happen, how-
ever, unless modifications are accepted. If
the' are not accepted, the only alternatives
will be to invoke cloture or wear out the ob-
jectors. We do not believe that either can
be successful.
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Bills To Create a Freedom Commission
and Freedom Academy
,?)
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. EDWIN E. WILLIS
OF LOUIS/ANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 13, 1964
Mr. WILLIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask per-
mission to place in the RECORD the text
of a press release of the Committee on
un-American Activities. This release
reveals that the committee will hold
hearings on February 18-20 on various
bills to establish a Freedom Commission
and Academy. Because the concept of a
Freedom Academy has evoked consider-
able interest, I thought that Members of
the House might be interested in know-
ing Of the hearings to be held .ney week.
commrirt.k. ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASH-
INGTON, D.C.
Representative EDWIN E. Wn.ws, Democrat,
of Louisiana, chairman of the House Com-
mittee on un-American Activities, an-
nounced today that on February 18, 19, and
20, 1964, the committee will hold public
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hearings on various bills to create a Freedom
Commission and Freedom Academy which
have been referred to the committee.
The bills in question are: H.R. 352, intro-
duced by Representative A. S. HzaLoNs, Jr.;
H.R. 1617, introduced by Representative
CHARLES S. Guasza; H.R. 5368, introduced
by Representative HALE BOGGS; and H.R.
8320, introduged by Representative ROBERT
TArr, Jr.; and H.R. 8757, introduced by Rep-
resentative RICHARD SCHWEIKER.
All persons desiring to present testimony
on these bills during the February 18-20
hearings should contact Mr: F. J. McNamara,
staff director, Committee on un-American
Activities, room 226, Cannon Office Build-
L., Washington, D.C.
A Tribute to Our Flag
EXTENSION OF REMARKS,
OF'
HON. WM. J. RANDALL
OF MISSOURI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 13, 1964
Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, in re-
cent correspondence from a distinguished
constituent, Mr. Thomas Quickel, who
has enjoyed a career of prominence as a
journalist, we received a tribute-to our
flag created by John W. W. Cumming,
rear admiral, U.S. Navy, retired, Ports-
mouth, Va. In Admiral Cumming's let-
ter to our constituent he requested any-
one who might be interested to help dis-
seminate the tribute, emphasizing he
sought nothing fqr himself but only that
it might help America.
Admiral Cumming relates to Mr.
Quickel that it was in 1942 while he was
on convoy trips during World War II
that most of the thoughts in the tribute
came to his mind. He says he then tried
to create something fundamental and
basic with simplicity and yet would
awaken response. Admiral Cumming is
so eminently right when he says:
Thoughts are things so to speak. Every-
thing is born in the thought world before
it is manifested or expressed in some form
in the physical, material world.
The admiral proceeds to say in his let-
ter that?
The symbolic significance of our flag draws
its theme from our Declaration of Independ-
ence, particularly from the glorious second
paragraph of that immortal document.
His comment upon the word "defend"
is that the word was intentionally and
purposely used. No sane person wants
war just for the sake of war. In life
situations or occasions are encountered
ih which only-moral courage may be re-
quired; some may require only physical
courage; some may require both!
We believe the "tribute" has a creed
for all patriotic people to live by and our
crystallization of thoughts about the flag
are brought into an orderly theme. The
tribute to the flag follows:
A TRIBUTE TO OUR FLAG
(By John W. W. Cumming, June 8, 1942)
A salute to thee, Old Glory, the Stars and
Stripes?our flag. Thou was born, June 14,
1777.
Thy field of blue with 50 stars of white
doth represent the Union of States while
thy 13 stripes of red and white, the original
colonies; the first States to form the United
States of America, our country; but?thou
art more.
Thou are a silent symphony of red,- white
and blue, the harmony of home and country
composed by God, himself, the master of
life, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of hap-
piness?thy glorious theme.
Thy canton of blue, like the firmament,
displays now a galaxy, a constellation of
bright shining stars in one of which each of
us has a home, yet, every other star is like-
wise a home for each of us?one for all and
all for one?a perfect union.
Thy stripes of white, six in number, em-
blazon on high, the purity of purpose of
creation by the the Almighty God whose
omniscience and omnipotence, in 6 days,
brought into being all there is, including
earth and overall therein gave He dominion
to man?and?God was pleased because all
was good; thus was thy birth first planned.
, Thy stripes of red, seven in number, one
fOr each day of the week in which to render
passionate, living, virile worship and service
to the infinite, by man serving man in joy
and sadness, in plenty and poverty, in health
and sickness, regardless of cost, sacrifice, race,
color, or creed; thus do our part by provi-
dence planned.
I salute thee, my flag, because thou dost
symbolize all I hold most dear?God, home,
country?and I will defend thee against all
enemies; domestic and foreign.
I salute thee.
A Salute to the Future Farmers of
America
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER
OF KENTUCKY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 13, 1964
Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, the
National Future Farmers of America
Week will be observed this year from
February 15 through 22, and it is with
pleasure that I pay tribute to this or-
ganization.
The motto of the FFA, "Learning to
do, doing to learn, earning to live, liv-
ing to serve" emphasizes their purpose
of preparing to become experienced,
skilled farmers of the future. These
young men fully deserve our support and
encouragement in their endeavors as we
will be depending upon them to utilize
the rich, productive land that is our
heritage. The training they are receiv-
ing assures us that the future of Ameri-
can agriculture will be An competent
hands.
The FFA organization is a young,
growing one. Launched in Kansas City,
Mo., on November 20, 1928 by 35 voca-
tional agriculture students with their
leaders, it has become the largest farm
boy organization in the world. Approxi-
mately 400,000 members participate in
this intracurricular school group, com-
posed of boys studying vocational agri-
culture. Membership is voluntary, and
the FFA has no political or religious af-
filiations.
The FFA trains young men to be not
only farmers with skill and technical
knowledge, but farmers with leadership
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experience 'and .potential. This aspect
is realized through public speaking con-
tests, parliamentary procedure followed
in meetings, and officer training. These
young men have a creed which envisions
the path along which their leadership
will take them. .
I believe in the future of farming, with
a faith born not of words but of deeds?
achievements won by the present and past
generations of farmers; in the promise of
better days through better ways, even as the
better things we now enjoy have come up
to us from the struggles of former years.
I believe in leadership from ourselves and
respect from others. I believe that rural
America can and will hold true to the best
traditions in our national life and that I
can exert an influence in my home and com-
munity which will stand solid for my part
in that inspiring task.
This is the ultimate goal of the leader-
ship expected of each of them.
Recognizing that a continual supply
of talent is needed in America's largest
single industry, and that FFA, accom-
panying and complimenting the voca-
tional agriculture program, is a vital
source of this talent, I salute the FFA
chapters nokonly in the Second District
of Kentucky, but all the FFA partici-
pants throughout America for its invalu-
able service. I wish them continued
success and agree with their creed which
states, "I believe in the future of farm-.
ing."
No Easy Answers to Wheat Problem
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. MARK ANDREWS
OF NORTH DAKOTA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 13, 1964
Mr. ANDREWS of North Dakota. Mr.
Speaker, everyone in Congress is aware
of the need for a sensible and realistic
wheat program. Sometimes, however,
we overlook the fact that one of our
greatest assets in this world struggle
against communism is the ability of our
American farmers under our free en-
terprise system to produce an abundance
of that most important commodity?
food. This can be our hole card in deal-
ing with the Kremlin, but only if we
are wise enough to use it in a positive
way.
I cannot help but feel that we are not
winning the friendship of the man
liv-
ing in a grass hut with children suffer-
ing from malnutrition who hears that
America is telling her farmers to cut
back on their production. In order to
utilize this food in the world today, it
would seem that any farm program that
is -written must avoid export subsidies
on wheat.
The Fargo Forum, a Pulitzer Prize-
winning newspaper in my First District
of North 'Dakota, has been running a
series of thought-provoking editorials
on the agricultural situation. I would
like to give the other Members of Con-
gress the opportunity to read the Feb-
ruary 9 editorial, entitled "There Are No
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