"calmly wrapped the draperies of his couch about him and lay down to pleasant dreams."

Thus, Mr. Speaker, the life work of our friend was ended. The brilliant career of a brilliant man was over.

As we say to him, "Farewell," I wish to pay my humble, yet sincere, tribute to him-my friend-in the unforgotten words which were spoken of a hero in the years gone by

His life was gentle, and the elements

So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the World, "This was a man!”

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Cox].

Mr. Cox. Mr. Speaker, there are none of us who have friends to spare, but when death stalked into this Chamber and took away ULYSSES S. GUYER a loss was inflicted upon me that I can ill afford. Judge GUYER to me was eminent in all things. In his life there were mixed in right proportions all the virtues that go to the making of a man. His high talents were never soiled by ignoble use.

As a Member of this body who knew him long, intimately and well, and as one who loved him devotedly, I join with the thousands who bemoan his passing.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. O'Haral.

Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, it is true that today the spoken word will show the deep and sincere affection with which Judge GUYER is held in the hearts of his colleagues of the Congress. The written record cannot show the timbre of sincerity and sadness of the voices of those who have spoken of our beloved friend.

It was my privilege to serve during the Seventy-seventh Congress with Judge GUYER upon the House Judiciary Committee. The distinguished chairman of that committee, Judge SUMNERS, has expressed the thought that sometimes our

sense of values is disproportionate-that sometimes we have a false sense of values. It is a most affectionate recollection to have known Judge GUYER not only on the committee but on occasions that I met and had early breakfast with him. He had a great fund of anecdotes and history of the Midwest-not only historical as to Iowa and Kansas and Indiana and of other States, but of individual characters of those States and often my day began with the inspiration of hearing Judge GUYER tell at the breakfast table some of his early personal recollections of people and events that made history in the Midwest. He was in himself a historian and it will be regretted if Judge GUYER did not leave some written memoirs, which would be of great historical value.

Judge GUYER is a lesson in himself to all of us in public life. When we get down to the end of things the personal esteem and affection in which we are held by those with whom we serve is perhaps the finest tribute that can come to men.

ULYSSES SAMUEL GUYER never asked how many were on his side of a cause; if he believed in a cause he was the advocate and champion of that cause. He was a devout Christian. His advocacy and his religion were always tempered with tolerance, and his associates knew his kind and generous nature. It is a tribute to the members of the legal profession and of the Judiciary Committee that while they may be as individuals engaged in the conflict of a cause, whether it be in the courts or in legislation, that they bear no animosity in the conflict and clash of debate, whether it be upon the law or upon proposed legislation.

Norse mythology has given us the Halls of Valhalla; that to these halls were summoned the warriors who had died in battle, and that every morning thereafter poured from its 540 gates these spirit warriors who continued to fight the battles in which they died. And so it is with the causes that Judge GUYER represented, for from Valhalla his warrior spirit will ever continue by the influences which he made in his lifetime.

I join with you who have spoken and who will speak in extending my most heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Guyer in the loss which she has sustained. She will be in some measure comforted in knowing how much we appreciated in his lifetime the distinguished, splendid, Christian gentleman, U. S. GUYER.

The Second District of Kansas and the Congress will share with her the sadness of his passing.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Robertson].

Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, the Old Testament stresses the God of Wrath. The New Testament stresses the God of Love. There was no greater interpreter of the new dispensation than the Apostle Paul. Nothing he has sent down to us through the ages has done me personally more good than the description he gave of the kind of sounding brass and tinkling cymbal an eloquent tongue was which spoke from a heart in which there was no charity.

Mr. GUYER was one of the first of the old Members I met when I came here some 10 years ago. He was friendly with new Members because he was friendly with everyone. In all the time I served here with him, I never heard him say an unkind word against anyone.

After I came to know him better, he often reminded me of an old friend I knew in Richmond, Dr. J. T. Mastin. When I was elected to the State senate in 1915, State-wide prohibition was the burning political issue in Virginia. Dr. Mastin was chairman of our State board of charities and corrections, doing the work later assumed by what we call the State welfare board. Dr. Mastin was for State-wide prohibition. In February 1916 we had before the State senate a bill to raise Dr. Mastin's salary from the munificent sum of $2,400 a year to $3,000 a year, which was in that day and time a major increase and precipitated a lively debate. Naturally, because feeling over the prohibition issue had run so high, I

expected to see considerable criticism on the floor of the State senate over the proposal of our senate finance committee to increase the salary of Dr. Mastin. Much to my surprise, the leader of the wet forces in the senate, possibly the most eloquent man in that body, Col. Tom Downing, of Lancaster, Va., arose in support of the increase in the pay of Dr. Mastin and in the course of his remarks said to us, "Dr. Mastin is so charitable you would not know he is a Christian."

Some who have led reform movements have proceeded, I fear, on the theory of the Old Testament, the God of Wrath, the theory of compulsion, the theory of force; but not our departed friend. He proceeded on the theory of love, on the theory of persuasion.

I will miss Mr. GUYER. The House will miss Mr. GUYER. The House is better by reason of his 18 years' of service here, because, "careless of monument by the grave, he built it in the world; a monument by which men might be taught to remember not where he died but where he lived."

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South Dakota [Mr. Case].

Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. SHORT), in his remarks very properly included a tribute to the beautiful character of the bereaved widow. Within a day or two after I came to join this body, Mr. GUYER came over and sat down beside me, introduced himself, and explained that Mrs. Guyer was a native of South Dakota and he took a great deal of interest in any Member who came from that State.

We visited there a little that day, and I shall never forget a remark he made to me at that time. Someone was speaking from the well of the House and delivering himself at some length and with a great deal of energy. Mr. GUYER said to me, "CASE, when your time comes to speak here, do not take yourself too seriously. Some of the speeches you will think are the best speeches you have made, perhaps those you work the hardest on, will not be appreciated as you think they

should.

Above all, do not talk too long. You must remember that nearly every person who becomes a Member of this body has to make some speeches to get here, and a lot of the fellows are going to be sitting back thinking how much better a job of making that speech they could do than you.”

I have thought of that a great many times, and have profited by the advice. As to Judge GUYER himself, however, I have thought of it somewhat in reverse, because there were few men who spoke to this body who had such oratorical force as ULYSSES S. GUYER when he was in the full strength of his powers.

He was a man who did take an interest in new Members, as so many Members have said. And we have always been appreciative of the special interest which he and Mrs. Guyer took in the Members from South Dakota because of her early residence there.

I think probably one can find in his own remarks the best epitaph of his work. In an address which Mr. GUYER gave on the service of Members of the House at one time, he spoke of the high purposes and the great aims with which most Members come to this body and how they devote themselves to their accomplishment. In that address there ran a pas.. sage like this: "We come here with high hopes, we do what we can about these things, and then one day we find we have grown old in the effort."

The phrase "We grow old in the effort" has come to me as I have thought of Mr. GUYER in the last few weeks, because he was a man who came here with high purposes, who fought the good fight for the causes in which he believed, and who grew old in the service of his country. Of no man could it better be said, I think, that he could come to the end of his days, hear the summons to join the innumerable caravan, and, sustained by an unfaltering trust, wrap the draperies of his couch about him, and lie down to pleasant dreams.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Murdock].