April18, 1990 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS ARE WE a HUMANE NATION? Passivity and Privatism: "Look out for No

7342 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April18, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS ARE WE A HUMANE NATION? passivity and privatism: "Look out for No. cuts in basic social and human service pro 1,"-those who can't are shiftless, a drag on grams will exact social and human costs, the economy. and they will also appear as direct financial HON. LEE H. HAMILTON Times also have changed for our disadvan costs at the future times in different ledg OF INDIANA taged youth. In the '60s, there was hope: ers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Upward Bound, the Neighborhood Youth There is a price to be paid for Reagan's re Wednesday, April18, 1990 Corps and the Job Corps held out a helping duction of human and social services. The hand. Youngsters who had never before had price is that these cutbacks did not reduce Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I would like to a chance believed that the dream of achiev crime; they increased it. They did not pro insert a recent article by Arthur I. Blaustein ing selfhood could become a reality. By the mote better family life; they destabilized it. into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Mr. Blaus early '80s, though, that hope had been They did not reduce alcoholism; they in tein was chairman of the National Advisory dashed, and it was replaced with despair, as creased it. They did not increase respect for youngsters turned to drugs, crime and vio Council on Economic Opportunity under Presi the law; they weakened it. lence. The four particular elements of the dent Carter. He now teaches at the University It is important to clarify this reality, for Reagan administration's policies that have of California, Berkeley. Mr. Blaustein's pro along the way, in deliberate efforts to de- served to undermine our social equilibrium vides an insightful critique of society's unful . stroy the credibility of these programs, con are: (1) the massive across-the-board cuts in filled goals of equality, justice, and economic servative politicians began manipulating social and human service programs; <2> the opportunity. I recommend the following article symbols in order to stigmatize them. During transfer of federal authority and program as important reading to all my colleagues. the Nixon era, they cleverly began to refer responsibility to states with diminished re to them as "minority" and "welfare" pro sources; (3) the abolition of delivery systems [From the San Jose Mercury News, Dec. 24, grams, rather than as "opportunity" ones, 1989] provided for in the Economic Opportunity thereby switching the message from a posi Act; and (4) the abdication of moral leader ARE WE A HUMANE NATION? tive to a negative one. This kind of deceit ship. and distortion was not an accident; it was COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY Twenty-five years ago, this nation under designed to exploit fear and racial divisive ness. I want to quote from a tribute to Jane took a course of action designed to combat Addams made in 1960 by the distinguished "the paradox- of poverty amidst plenty." In By the time we reached the '80s, we had entered an era that officially-at the high writer and historian Archibald MacLeish; doing so, President Lyndon Johnson decided because it touches my sense of the meaning upon a broadside effort to seriously attack est levels of government-condoned and even encouraged negative attitudes, code of the war on poverty. Jane Addams, he the root causes of poverty: inadequate said, "was not working for her immigrants health care, impaired education, lack of words and symbols directed against the poor in particular, and toward basic human and and her poor. She was committing herself decent jobs, deteriorating housing and de with them to the common life-that life our caying neighborhoods. When Johnson re social service programs in general. Those conservative politicians who did so are adept generation watches more and more as spec quested-and Congress passed-the Econom tators, as though it were not common, as ic Opportunity Act, it also signified a moral at moralizing endlessly over the issues: the "problems" of the unemployed and under though it were a life for someone else. She commitment on the part of our political was as explicit about that as a woman could leadership to pursue the unfulfilled goals of employed, the homeless and hungry, of al coholism, drug abuse, mental illness, infant be. She was not, she said, a reformer: she equality, justice, and opportunity. wanted to establish a place , which had the respon Let me give a concrete example of what I sibility for initiating several programs, in of us and incorporated into our common mean. During the course of the 1980 presi life.' cluding Head Start, Volunteers in Service to dential campaign, then-candidate Reagan "No, Hull House changed Chicago and America Well, I'll tell you: $8,200 for the Job talk as though the great question before our al problems. Corps and only $8,000 for Harvard." This society was whether the things that need to It was a time of enthusiasm and hope. usually elicited gales of smug laughter. But be done in America to keep this last best People not only thought about what was it was a false comparison, a perversion of re hope of earth alive should be done by the right and talked about what was wrong, but ality. It just shows how distortions and false federal government or by the states or per they also accepted personal responsibility myths are created. The average taxpayer haps the cities or by industries or by some for actually doing something about righting doesn't want complex economic answers, other kind of organization. But that, of those wrongs. The nation's spirit was enliv but they do deserve an honest answer. course, is not the question. The question ened by the tens of thousands of young Americans who volunteered the Job Corps. For example, it costs $26,000 these things will be done. And the answer is for the Peace Corps, VISTA, Legal Services a year to keep a youngster in prison. It costs that they will be done if we ourselves see to and the Teacher Corps, or who supplement $32,000 to keep a youngster in an alcohol it as Jane Addams and her friends saw it-if ed their education by providing worthwhile and drug abuse program or a halfway house. we accept, as she accepted, responsibility for social services to the poor through the more It costs $55,000 to keep a youngster in a our lives. That, when all is said and done is than 900 Community Action Agencies mental institution. And it costs only $16,000 why our time remembers her-that she ac established across the country. to keep a youngster in the Job Corps, where cepted for herself responsibility for the I do not have to tell you that times have they're learning self respect and job train changed. Nowadays, people complain a lot, ing. 'common life.' " but they do not take personal responsibility The issues are: What are the values of the SERVING THE POOR for anything other than their own ambition, society, and where do we want to spend our I cite this passage because it best describes career or security. On campus and . off, money? The alternative to our Job Corps is for me the spirit and the intentionality of rather than activism, idealism and vitality, not Harvard, it's despair. And there are sub the Economic Opportunity Act, its pro the mood has shifted to apathy, fatalism, stantial future costs to taxpayers. Drastic grams and the people who worked at OEO.

e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor· April 18, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7343 In 1965, the concept of Hull House was in Politics today, in a period of limited eco May to compete in the National Competition stitutionalized through the Economic Op nomic growth, seems to have reached a level against teams from across the Nation. portunity Act with the establishment of of abstractness that removes it from the It is with great pleasure that I salute Kathy over 900 Community Action Agencies commonplace circumstances of ordinary ; but also each and every one of us classmates were able to achieve excellence. open house for county employees. who cares about the future of our nation Kathy and her classmates, along with Ms. As the commission's focus of participation must ask the question, "If not now, when?" Costa, will now travel to Washington, DC, in in our local community during National Con- 7344 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 18, 1990 sumers Week, they are sponsoring an infor restaurant. The last time we were in Chica In one of three medical "caves" at the ac mation sharing event whereby consumers can go we had a wonderful meal at her restau celerator complex, a phalanx of shirt take advantage of the educational information rant. She was a wonderful, jolly, fine, good sleeved doctors and physicists help the person." woman onto the Isocentric Strereotactic Ap provided. Mrs. Reis was one of the star chefs at New paratus for Humans, a revolving couch that Mr. Speaker, the Consumer Affairs Commis York City's Tribute to James Beard, City permits the accelerator's helium-ion beam sion is a wonderful resource for both me and Meals-on-Wheels in 1987 and the Wolfgang to take aim at her skull from different the community-! refer many of my constitu Puck Charitable Foundation's American angles. Her sister watches the hour-long ents to the commission where they receive Food and Wine Festival in 1988. She was procedure on a closed-circuit monitor in an excellent assistance and guidance from the chosen as the only Midwestern guest chef adjacent room. commission. I would like to commend the on Julia Child's television series, "Dinner at Strapped into the couch, the woman's Consumer Affairs Commission of Alameda Julia's" in 1983, and was a founding member head is immobilized in what looks like a County for their dedication to the ongoing of the American Institute of Wine and Food custom-made hockey mask. Computerized and of Les Dames d'Escoffier Chicago. images help technicians train the accelera need for consumer education and information One reason for her success as a restaura regarding consumer rights, and I congratulate tor on the malformation in her brain to teur was that she kept a pure style at Cafe within a fraction of a millimeter. the commission on their participation in Na Provencal, said Gordon Sinclair, owner of Each of four doses of the therapy takes tional Consumers Week. Gordon's restaurant. "Leslee was very firm about a minute, is painless and silent and es in her conviction that Cafe Provencal was sentially clots the malformation. Because authentic French provincial cooking. She A TRIBUTE TO LESLEE REIS: AN blood is unable to flow through its capillar stuck to her style. She was not affected by ies, it will atrophy, probably within a year EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN AND the nouvelle movement but maintained a and dissolve harmlessly. RESTAURATEUR hearty and robust cuisine," he said. Originally designed for particle physics, "Because of her bravado, I don't think atom smashers have been compared to a HON. JOHN EDWARD PORTER any knew just how much she cared about demolition derby in which two speeding cars people and the business," said cookbook crash; physicists do the same thing with OF ILLINOIS author and Tribune columnist Abby IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES atoms, sending them crashing together at Mandel. "She was extremely sensitive to high speeds and then counting the particles Wednesday, April18, 1990 people. She really cared and I think that that scatter as a result of the collision to try was the secret of her success." Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, recently the and determine the building blocks of people of our area, and indeed, throughout matter. the Nation, lost one of the culinary world's LOMA LINDA MEDICAL CENTER'S Increasingly, atom smashers are regarded as promising tools to treat cancer and other most outstanding leaders: Leslee Reis. Mrs. GIFT OF LIFE TARGETING diseases, because they allow doctors to lower Reis died suddenly and unexpectedly in New TUMORS WITH AN ATOM the dose of radiation while increasing the Orleans during a weekend trip, and she is SMASHER accuracy of radiation therapy. mourned by all those who were fortunate That is particularly true for cancers that enough to know and work with her, as well as HON. JERRY LEWIS are localized in one area of the body. "Any by countless thousands of customers who fre OF CALIFORNIA thing that is treatable with X-rays could probably be better treated with particle quented her world-class restaurant, Cafe Pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vencal. beams," said Raymond Kjellberg, a neuro I became fast friends with Leslee and her Wednesday, April18, 1990 surgeon at Harvard Medical School, the husband, Andy, when we were members of Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I am home of the only other clinical accelerator in the United States. "My guess is that the Evanston Young Republicans. She was a pleased to share with my colleagues an article [atom smashers] will replace most X-ray use wonderful and energetic person, someone that appeared in last week's Washington Post in 10 to 20 years," said Kjellberg. who always brightened the lives of those concerning a highly advanced technology uti Conventional radiation treatment uses X around her. She will be deeply missed, and lizing particle accelerators in the treatment of rays, which scatter as soon as they hit the her contributions to her profession are sub cancerous tumors. Lorna Linda University body, wasting energy and affecting healthy stantial. Medical Center has been a pioneer in this and cancerous tissue alike. This is especially Of all the recent accounts of Leslee's life technology for 20 years and a description of dangerous if the tumor is in a vital spot, which were written after her untimely passing, their work is included in this article. I call it to such as near the heart or spine. For this I found an April 27 Chicago Tribune article my colleague's attention because I want all of reason, a less than ideal dose is used to avoid damaging normal tissue. that captures the most important aspects and you to be aware of the availability of this Proton beams used in particle therapy I have selected excerpts to be reprinted cancer curing treatment center that will begin have the same biological effect on the body below. Together with the memories and love treating patients this summer. as X-rays, disrupting a cell's metabolism and of all those who were touched by Leslee, I TARGETING TuMORS WITH AN ATOM SMASH· breaking up the DNA, making it incapable hope that this record may help provide a fit ER-MAINSTAY OF PHYSICS FINDS A PLACE of reproducing. But unlike X-rays, they can ting tribute to a very special lady. IN THE MEDICAL ARSENAL AGAINST be controlled to penetrate no farther than Mrs. Refs, a pacesetter of Chicago's culi GROWTHS INACCESSIBLE BY SURGERY the tumor and to unleash their cell-killing nary world, was founder and executive chef (By Gregg Levoy) energy directly on the target. of the award-winning Cafe Provencal, which High on a hillside overlooking San Fran A particle beam's velocity can be varied by she opened in 1977, after doing her own cisco Bay, a woman apprehensively enters a passing it through a telescoping water ab form of market research: standing on a building that houses a particle accelerator, sorber, similar to the collapsible plastic cups street comer in Evanston, asking passersby an atom smasher that is the mainstay of used in camping. The longer the absorber, if they wanted the kind of restaurant she physics and now is being used to treat the more water the beam must pass wanted to open. In 1982 she opened Leslee's cancer and other life-threatening diseases. through, and the slower it travels. and in 1987, Bodega Bay Cafe, both in Ev The 28-year-old woman suffers from an The velocity of a beam determines how anston. Both closed in 1988. arteriovenous malformation, a hereditary far into the body it travels before reaching Until her marriage in 1965 to her high condition that results in an abnormal the end of its range. Ideally, a particle beam school sweetheart, Mrs. Refs had never growth of blood vessels in the brain. Several dumps the bulk of its energy right on top of cooked an entire meal, much less an epicure years earlier, the malformation caused a the tumor, resulting in less damage to an feast. She was working toward her doc hemorrhage that resulted in a temporary healthy tissue. torate in biochemistry at Harvard when she coma and paralyzed the woman's right eye. Particle beams are generally trained on a got sidetracked, taking a course at Le Because the malformation is too deep and site from several different points, further Cordon Bleu and volunteering to do dishes inaccessible for surgery, her physician, minimizing the dose on any given path. for Julia Child, who was about to debut as Jacob Fabrikant, a professor of radiology at Beams can also be shaped to the precise "The French Chef" on television. Her first the University of California at Berkeley, configuration of a tumor. entry into the food business was catering. fears her next hemorrhage could be fatal. As a result, doctors can deliver up to 35 "I'm terribly distressed," said Julia Child His experiments in particle beam therapy at percent more radiation than with conven in Boston. "She did a lot for women in the the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory may rep tional X-ray therapy, while sparing sensitive business. She was a fine chef and ran a fine resent her last hope. surrounding tissue.

39-059 0-91-41 (Pt. 5) 7374 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS April 18, 1990 I join Mayor Dinkins in congratulating the have come to appreciate the value of preser THE REAL GORBACHEV Landmarks Preservation Commission on its vation. The Landmarks Law has enhanced silver anniversary and in thanking the commis the market status of such areas as Fort sion for all that it has done for New York City. Greene, Brooklyn; Hunters Point, in HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL Queens; Strivers Row, in Harlem; parts of OF ILLINOIS I urge my colleagues to read Mayor Dinkins' Manhattan's Lower East Side; and so many remarks: others. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REMARKS BY MAYOR DAVID N. DINKINS, Landmarks designation often provided a Wednesday, April18, 1990 LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION cachet that made real estate more attractive 25TH ANNIVERSARY and promoted owner investment. New York Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, former President Good morning and welcome to City Hall. is a better city-and, I might add, a more Richard M. Nixon was scheduled to address a As one who lives and works in two historic competitive destination for tourism-be meeting of the Boston World Affairs Council, 19th century buildings, I am particularly de cause we have managed to save so many April 12, 1990. For medical reasons he was lighted to participate in this celebration of structures from oblivion. forced to postpone that speech. I was fortu the 25th anniversary of the Landmarks Not only has Landmark designation res nate to obtain a copy of the text he would Preservation Commission. cued our past-but it has also helped to have delivered in Boston, and I want to take I salute my distinguished colleagues and shape our future. Over the last 25 years, ar predecessors in office, Mayor Robert chitects have come to know that their de this opportunity to share it with our col Wagner and Mayor Abraham Beame, as well signs could become the landmarks of tomor leagues. as former LPC Chairman Gene Norman, row. The challenge this implies is simply un With incisive analysis and a mastery of a who is here representing former Mayor precedented in human history. broad range of issues, President Nixon takes Koch, and my appointee to head WNYC, That great student of the world's cities, a look at "the real Gorbachev," and offers Tom Morgan, who is representing Mayor the late Lewis Mumford, once wrote, "The some advice as to how the United States Lindsay. city is a fact in nature, like a cave a run of might deal with a world in which "the Soviets My greetings to Barbaralee Diamonstein, mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a have lost the cold war, but * * * the West Chairwoman of the Landmarks Preservation conscious work of art, and . . . with lan Foundation, which is sponsoring this cele guage itself, it remains humanity's greatest has not yet won * * * :· bration; City Council members Herbert work of art." Last month, members of the House Repub Berman, Robert Dryfoos, June Eisland, Just as a great book enters the conscious lican Conference heard the former President Walter McCaffrey, Morton Povman and ness of a civilization, so too does a great speak on many of the same subjects he Priscilla Wooten; former Chairmen and building enter the consciousness of a city. covers in this speech. We found his grasp of Chairwomen of the Landmarks Preservation One can never destroy a great book; since geopolitical realities and his ability to clarify Commission, Beverely Moss Spatt, Kent the Landmarks Preservation Law, it is no ideas remain powerful. I think all our col Barwick, Gene Norman and David Todd; our longer easy to destroy a great building. leagues will benefit from reading his remarks. We have an exciting agenda in the years recently designated Landmarks Commis At this point in the RECORD, I wish to insert sioner, Laurie Beckelman, who will be pre ahead. Our new Landmarks Commissioner sented for City Council consideration later looks forward to the 1990's as "the decade "The Real Gorbachev," a speech prepared this month; J. Jackson Walter, President of of neighborhoods," expanding our focus for delivery by former President Richard M. the National Trust for Historic Preserva from large important public buildings and Nixon, before the World Affairs Council of tion; world-renowned architect I.M. Pei, dis districts to include structures intrinsic to Boston, April 12, 1990: tinguished architecture critic Paul Gold the character of neighborhoods. THE REAL GORBACHEV berger, theater impresario Joe Papp, writer To me, the word "neighborhood" has a and preservationist Margot Gayle, and all human ring that is missing from the word