Address by Senator Wagner

Of New York

Mr. WAGNER. Mr. President, the year which has gone by since the death of my late colleague, ROYAL S. COPELAND, has not numbed our sorrow at his passing nor dulled our appreciation of his exemplary merits. In his death the Nation has lost one of its most illustrious citizens, the State of New York has lost a faithful servant, and I feel a personal bereavement in the loss of a close friend.

As we travel down the broad highway of life, there is given to each of us, in varying degree, some opportunity for service to our fellow men. Seldom has such opportunity been so richly bestowed or so fully utilized as in the life of ROYAL S. COPELAND. For to him was given the opportunity to perform high public service not only as a great Member of this body but also as a man of science.

With a life blending so beautifully two such ordinarily divergent professions as medicine and public service, he brought to the practical problems of government the high idealism of the oath of Hippocrates. His public life was

characterized by the dispassionate analysis of the scientist and the warm human feeling of a physician. His goal was the cure of both the physical and the economic ills of society. Born and raised in the Middle West, ROYAL S. COPELAND came to New York in 1908. His record of public service had already begun, for he had served as mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., and as trustee of the Michigan State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. His assiduous studies of public-health problems and his other distinguished medical service soon attracted favorable attention and led to his appointment as a member of the New York City Ambulance Board and later as city health commissioner. In this important office he quickly demonstrated his unique administrative abilities to put medical science to work for the benefit of all the people. His

many successful health campaigns brought countless benefits in human welfare. One of his campaigns, for example, resulted in doubling the consumption of milk by the people of New York.

In his rapid rise to eminence in public affairs the Nation soon shared with the State of New York in the fruits of his accomplishments. Four years after his appointment as health commissioner ROYAL S. COPELAND had won election to this body and entered upon a long and distinguished career on the stage of national affairs.

This body has never had a more conscientious, courageous, and capable Member. Whatever cause he espoused during his 16 years of service, he sustained with a sincerity of purpose and breadth of knowledge which commanded respect and admiration knowing no partisan bounds. The development of civil aeronautics and of the American merchant fleet were close to his heart, and to these tasks he devoted untold hours of unflagging labor to his dying day.

His profession naturally led him to take a special interest in the improvement of pure food and drug laws. Two days before his death he succeeded in obtaining their enactment after a 5-year fight, thus accomplishing what he himself considered his greatest senatorial victory.

In addition to these strenuous legislative labors, he continued to the end his writings in the daily press. No one can ever know the countless lives eased or saved through this medium. But if the warmth and affection with which he was regarded throughout the length and breadth of the Nation may be taken as a criterion, many an humble citizen acknowledged an indebtedness to Dr. COPELAND for professional counsel, in terms of health and happiness, which can never be repaid.

Because of what he saw through his medical eyes, and because he rightly and generously assumed responsibility for the physical well-being of every Member of this body, my colleague frequently cautioned against the dangers of overwork during the hectic periods of a congressional session. On the sad day following the death of our late leader, the

beloved Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Dr. COPELAND expressed the fervent hope that "out of this disaster may come a warning which will fend off other disasters."

But, ever the devoted public servant, he labored indefatigably in the face of his own warnings, and became a knowing martyr in the public cause. Two days before his death he left his sickbed to participate in nine separate and arduous conferences between Senate and House conferees relating to important and necessary legislation. Beyond a doubt his untimely death was brought on by these exhausting labors for the public weal.

As truly as the slain soldier deserves the homage of the Nation, the unselfish service of ROYAL S. COPELAND has earned him the everlasting gratitude of the American people and a permanent place high on the roll of those who gave to their country "the last full measure of devotion."

Address by Senator Vandenberg

Of Michigan

Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, it is with a sense of keenest personal loss, to say nothing of the loss to the common weal, that I rise to add my humble words to the flowers of affection that are brought this reminiscent afternoon to the Senate of the United States in memory of a great citizen, a great patriot, a great humanitarian, a great statesman, and a great friend.

Senator COPELAND came originally from my home State of Michigan, and he deeply loved the roots of his nativity. It was ever his State, and he was ever its third Senator. Indeed, he is part of our proudest Michigan tradition, even as he sprang from our blood and soil. Here he was born near a little village on the rugged countryside, which became a part of him. Here he labored in his youth and early maturity. Here he commenced the practice of medicine, in which he was to rise to the heights of a profession which ever remained his first love and in which he became the trusted confidant of thousands. Here he began his collegiate activities, at his beloved University of Michigan, which will ever honor him as one of its most distinguished sons. Here he first entered public life. He was the mayor of Ann Arbor when I was on the university campus much more than 30 years ago. From that hour until the moment of his untimely death we were firm friends. I knew him in the intimacies of those close contacts which are reserved by each of us for but a few. I knew him in the sweetness of his home relationships. I knew him later as a great Senator. But I knew him first and always as a man. Nothing finer ever lived. He was as rugged in the loyalties of his character as he was gentle in his consideration for others. He was as kindly as he was brave. He