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Are there any other announcements?
Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: There will not
be a committee meeting on Personal Rights
and Preamble now, nor in the immediate
future, so far as I know.
Therefore, I would like to take this op-
portunity to express my personal appre-
ciation to all members of the Committee.
They worked long and hard hours. They
shirked no responsibilities. They voted their
own consciences, and they acted with com-
plete sincerity.
I would also pay tribute to the Staff
Advisor, Dave Marlin; the Administrative
Assistant, Atlee Wampler; and the two
secretaries, Mrs. Anna Klemmsen and Mrs.
Louise Peters.
Also, I would like on behalf of the Com-
mittee to thank you, Mr. President, because
you, too, were a great help to our Com-
mittee. The busiest man in the Constitu-
tional Convention was never too busy to
answer all and any of the dumb fool ques-
tions asked of the chairman, to check on
our work to be sure we did not get behind
in our schedules, and most important, per-
sonally to check all the recommendations
of the Committee to make sure that there
were no glaring omissions and no faults
that might embarrass us later on.
I can say this in all sincerity, that our
President was completely on top of this
Committee, and I am sure of every other
committee, and to him goes a great deal of
credit for whatever success we have had.
And I want to thank him on behalf of the
Committee as well as myself.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dulany.
DELEGATE DULANY: Mr. President,
I would like to announce that Mr. Paul
Moore, Director of Public Information is
now on the floor. He was unable to be here
when he was announced before.
THE PRESIDENT: I would like him to
come to the well of the chamber for a bit
of appreciation.
(Applause.)
DELEGATE DULANY: It was Mr.
Moore who initiated the idea of the news
clippings on your desk every day, and he
has also arranged to have a photographer
present when the signing takes place.
If you wish to purchase a picture, you
can contact the photographer.
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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: I must coun-
teract the place of meeting of the Commit-
tee on Style, Drafting and Arrangement.
We need to go down to our committee
room, because we are on the list of those
who are to have movies of us in action.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you please
make certain that in the movie appear all
the reference works that you have been
using? These are books on commas, books
on semi-colons, books on synonyms, and
many others.
Delegate Taylor.
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: Mr. Presi-
dent, this may have come to me a little
late, but I have on my desk a little note
that says, "Some people do not have much
to say, but you have to listen so long to
find it out."
I felt a little badly until I turned it over
and it said, "You are quite an orator."
Then I began to feel a little better.
Then it went on to say: "Oratory is the
art of making loud noises from the mouth
sound like important messages from the
brain."
All of us have heard about a lady here.
If we have not spoken of her, we have
thought about her. I had occasion the other
night to talk to her. She told me that she
was glad that we were going finally to
adjourn. Her name is Pandora. She said
that although we came close many times
to opening her box, we never did, and that
she can support this constitution 100 per-
cent.
(Laughter and applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Burdette.
DELEGATE BURDETTE: Mr. Presi-
dent, I should like to say for the record
what may to some of you be somewhat
unusual.
At the close of the meetings of the Con-
stitutional Convention Commission I was
able to say the same thing that I can now
say about the Convention : that although I
have received mail and telegrams and other
written communications, and I have heard
here some discussions of pressure or other
forces brought upon some delegates, I can
say, sir, no person save a delegate or dele-
gates have ever asked for my vote, either in
the Commission or this Convention.
I am not quite able to understand whether
that comes from my coming from Mont-
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