11400 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 21, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS VERONICA REAGAN CARMICAL, charged with a high crime or misdemeanor, either party's logic that he appeared to be ESSAY CONTEST WINNER impeached by a majority of a quorum in the acting at least semi-independently. United States' House of Representatives, The greatest threat to the independence and convicted by the votes of two-thirds or of the American federal judiciary came HON. HAROLD ROGERS more of a quorum in the federal Senate. more than a century after death took John OF KENTUCKY Historically, federal judicial independence Marshall from the Supreme Court in 1835. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resulted in numerous analyses. Among the In 1937 popular President Franklin D. Roo most notable of these was Number 78 of sevelt, angered because he had been unable Monday, May 21, 1990 "The Federalist Papers," written by Alexan to name even one justice of the Supreme Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, 200 years ago, der Hamilton. who favored life appoint Court during his first four years in office the Constitution of these United States was in ments for federal judges. Hamilton's only and because holdover jurists from previous its infancy. Our First President, George Wash stated reservation regarding the matter was Republican and Democrat administrations ington, had been in office just a little over a that in case of a judge who was insane or had struck down so many New Deal statutes physically incompetent to hear and rule on deemed necessary by Roosevelt for the year. Our first Congress had only begun to cases before his court. Hamilton's opinion United States to recover from the ravages of enact the laws of the land. was apparently of little concern to the ma the nation's worst depression, sought to But the third branch of our Government, the jority of the delegates at the 1787 Philadel· alter the High Court and other federal judi judiciary, would not take a form recognizable phia Convention from which the Constitu cial bodies. After first toying with the idea to us until more than a decade later, when the tion emerged because that stipulation was of having his Congressional supporters Honorable John Marshall became Chief Jus not added in the document. By so many ac sponsor a Constitutional Amendment to re tice of the U.S. Supreme Court. counts, the establishment of an independ strict the jurisdiction and authority of all It is in the spirit of celebration, of consider ent, essentially life-tenured judge fostered federal courts, Roosevelt and Attorney Gen ing the foundations of this Nation, that I am fair decisions; it hindered wealthy and oth eral Homer Cummings decided to proffer a erwise powerful citizens from being able to scheme for enlarging the Supreme Court proud to enter this essay from Veronica sway a judge's decision because the latter and other levels of the federal judiciary. Reagan Carmical of Williamsburg, KY, into the would not fear the loss of his livelihood. Specifically, through surrogates, Roosevelt eternal RECORD of this House. Indeed, a judiciary not affected by popu and Cummings proposed to the Senate the Her astute essay on the importance of an lar sentiment or special interest groups appointment of an additional judge for each independent Federal judiciary has won the could constitute the wisest court system jurist at each bench level who, having praise of the Daughters of the American Rev possible. Our founding fathers were by no reached the age of seventy years and six olution and the Commission on the Bicenten means the first to arrange a judicial system months, had not retired. Had their plan nial of the U.S. Constitution, who judged it the in this manner. England was the first major been legislatively enacted, Roosevelt would nation to utilize this idea. Since the fif immediately have been able to nominate six best essay in the east central division of their teenth century in England, a judge's rulings additional justices for the Supreme Court. recent nationwide essay contest. are supposedly fair and just, according to After lengthy debate, the "court packing" I had the pleasure of meeting Veronica here common law, equity, and statutory law. By plan failed to pass the Senate and was never in Washington a couple of weeks ago. Rarely analysis, one can see how the ordinary entertained in the House. have I met such a poised and articulate young person might benefit from this because gen Had it succeeded, the Roosevelt-Cum lady, and I look forward to hearing of her erally his cases are decided in the same mings schemes would have demeaned the future success in college, and in her adult life. manner as those involving more important independence of the federal judiciary, espe My congratulations also go to her parents, persons. cially the High Court, by lessening the im Not all countries practice the appoint portance of each judge. By reducing each's Mr. and Mrs. Oline Carmical, Jr., and to her ment of their judges as part of some politi stature, the other branches, particularly the fine teachers at the Williamsburg, KY, schools. cally partisan process. France has had five executive in this case, would corresponding I am quite sure they are all as proud of Veron radically different forms of government ly have been greatly enhanced in both ica as I am. over the past two centuries, and each has power and prestige. Most of the plan's oppo I urge all of my colleagues to read this fine had its own specific judicial system. One nents stressed their opposition on grounds essay, and consider its meaning as we in this main idea has permeated from general of preserving judicial independence and House write the laws of the land adjudicated French culture, however, through each of equality among the three federal branches the five types; a student of law trains to be of government. It is within the confines of by our independent Federal courts: either an attorney or a judge. Therefore, such sentiments that both judicial inde WHY ARE INDEPENDENT JUDGES IMPORTANT IN French jurists are professional civil serv pendence and governmental balance of THE PRESERVATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL ants, not political appointees; they are noth power continue to thrive in our federal SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT? ing more or less than judges. system. (By Veronica Reagan Carmical> The American system of an independent In 1787 our founding fathers saw the ne judiciary has been tested many times over cessity of a strong judicial system independ the years. In 1806 Chief Justice John Mar COLUMNIST PATRICK BUCHAN ent from the other two federal branches of shall came to the Supreme Court. Mar AN AGAIN CRITICIZES STATE government. Although they were vague in shall's first year on the Court shows how HOOD FOR PUERTO RICO the composition of the judiciary, they did unnecessary the Supreme Court was consid provide in Article III, Section I of the ered by the country as a whole. The Court United States' Constitution that there only heard three cases that year; two in HON. JAIME B. FUSTER would be one Supreme Court and other volved disputes over ships captured as prizes OF PUERTO RICO lower courts as Congress subsequently be on the high seas, and the third involved a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES title to a tract of western lands. These were lieved necessary. There were also other stip Monday, May 21, 1990 ulations that the judges were given their the ordinary cases of that time. There was posts for the duration of their lives. that nothing extraordinary about these cases, Mr. FUSTER. Mr. Speaker, as ~ Democrat I they would be paid, and that their pay may but Marshall, a highly partisan Federalist, do not always agree with the viewpoints of the never be decreased. The former has been in used them and others to build a judiciary in nationally syndicated conservative columnist terpreted to mean that a judge is nominated dependent of the executive and legislative Patrick Buchanan. but once again I have to branches. Federalist Marshall even occa for a tenure of life during good behavior by tell my colleagues that he is right on target the President. subject to federal Senatorial sionally ruled in favor of the majority Jef approval and his salary will never diminish. fersonian Party. Many of his rulings set de with his latest column on a proposed political Specifically, a federal judge can never be re finitive precedents because his reasons for status plebiscite in Puerto Rico. I inserted Mr. moved from office unless he has been his decisions seemed so different from Buchanan's first such column on this issue in
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. May 21, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11401 the RECORD last February, and today I want to and partner, on equal terms with the United The conservative adage there applies: draw to the attention of my colleagues his States? When it is not necessary to change, it is nec second column, entitled "Future State or We Americans preach self-determination. essary not to change. Just as islanders have a right to determine Nation?" which appeared in the May 16 edi their destiny, so, too, does the mainland. tion of the Washington Times. Neither the island, nor 250 million Ameri As you know, Mr. Speaker, there is legisla THE URBAN STATE UNIVERSITY: cans, should be blackjacked into a marriage KEY TO 21ST CENTURY AMER tion pending in both the House and Senate likely to wind up in a divorce court. ICA which would authorize a congressionally sanc The arguments of Puerto Rican national tioned plebiscite in Puerto Rico next year be ist Raul Serrano-Geyls, whence Mr. Finer's tween the options of statehood, independ definition was taken, deserve a hearing: HON. LOUIS STOKES ence, or an enhancement of the existing com Puerto Ricans are a Caribbean people of Spanish heritage, separated by 1,000 miles OF OHIO monwealth status. Although I have great re from the mainland. They did not petition to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES spect for the institution of statehood, I favor join the union; they were seized as war the enhanced commonwealth option as being booty in 1898. The people there have resist Monday, May 21, 1990 in the best interests of both Puerto Rico and ed every attempt to "Americanize" them, to Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, the education of the United States. melt them down. As Mr. Serrano-Geyls our citizens is the cornerstone of our develop President Bush favors the statehood option. writes, "The immense majority of all poets, ment as a nation. Our urban universities must novelists, playwrights, composers, painters, But Mr. Buchanan, himself a former key improve, adapt and fit the needs of many con Reagan White House official with well-known sculptors, artisans, in sum, nearly all Puerto Ricans with a true artistic creative spirit, stituents. conservative credentials, seems to be a voice are either 'independenistas' Cleveland State University, "Urban state on the issue of Puerto Rico's political status. tion. It is extremely hard to find a true universities are now on the cutting edge of Mr. Buchanan's voice ought to be heard more Puerto Rican artist that believes in state change confronting the educational, social, often in Republican councils; he is telling it hood. As someone has said: 'No one in economic, technical and vocational issues of like it is on the issue of statehood for Puerto Puerto Rico has ever written a poem to higher education." Dr. Flower recently had oc Rico. The White House ought to pay particular statehood, or the United States.' " This is a casion to address the National Press Club in attention. mark of nationhood. With tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans Washington, DC. His message focused on the FuTURE STATE OR NATION? believing fiercely in an independent island, unique mission of the urban state university. Michigan, and he while preach internationally"-fairly dictate lays to Puerto Rico, with half the per capita there rose from Instructor to Associate second thoughts. Why should it be an insult income of Mississippi, might rise by $36 bil Dean. In 1966 he became dean of the Col to Puerto Rico, or her thousands of veter lion. Puerto Rico could become the Anacos lege of Fine and Professional Arts at Kent ans, to suggest she has all the attributes of tia of the Caribbean-with welfare doing State University, where he also served as as nationhood? Is it an insult to Cuban-Ameri the same destructive work on that island sociated provost and dean of the Blossom cans to say we ought not, post-Castro, people that it has done to black Americans, Festival School in cooperation with the annex Cuba, but keep her as a friend, ally, Native Americans, Micronesians. Cleveland Orchestra. 11402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 21, 1990 A native of the State of Washington and a in 1970. My office was in Taylor Hall. These Those and others will dominate a curricu graduate of the University of Washington, events were cataclysmic. lum demanded by technological change. To Flower holds two master of music degrees However, universities settled back, adapt meet these extraordinary challenges, the and a Ph.D. ed, and carried on. urban state university must experience its in musicology from the University of Michi They looked at little different . . . and own perestroika. gan. He also studied at the Conservatoire acted a little different. Such change cannot be directed solely Americain in Fontainebleau, France. But they continued to keep Wall Street from inside ivy-covered walls. It will take a Flower has worked on accreditation re runing and Main Street viable, while law committed partnership of academia, busi views of more than 125 colleges and univer schools kept the lawyer pipelines filled. The ness, and government to launch this restruc sities and has presented scholarly papers best unversities maintained the flow of in turing-one that must be as comprehensive around the world. tellecutal Brahmins to serve Washington as is the nation's war on drugs, or any of Flower served as a fighter-bomber pilot in political leadership. other predicted megatrend problems of the World War II. He recently was elected to a But that equation keeping private and coming century. In short, a campaign for two-year term as Chairman of the Ohio elite universities ... in the lead and hence uban higher education of enormous propor Aerospace Institute. America ... leading the World ... is now tions. Locally, Flower is actively involved with as out of date as the slide rule. There is precedent for this. numerous civic and cultural organizations Urban state universities are now on the More than a century ago, the predomi including the Greater Cleveland Growth As cutting edge of change and confronting the nantly rural United States had a crying sociation, the Cleveland Play House, and educational, social, economic, technical, and need for new knowledge and skills to im the Greater Cleveland Roundtable. vocational issues created by the changing prove farming. The classical upper-class To search for truth and profess thought demographics of our pluralistic peoples. education of the premier universities might and advances in knowledge has always been By generally accepted definition, an have advanced Western thought, and by the challenge of the American University. American urban state university is govern trickling down, helped energize industry, Teaching ever-changing skills to meet grow ment assisted, in a downtown locale, and but it was not sufficient to spur farming and ing professional needs accompanies this surrounded by a diverse community with a feed the growing populace. challenge. historically strong industrial base in a met At the height of the Civil War, with the But as we move through the nineties and ropolitan area of a million or more. In addi backing of President Lincoln, Congress in into the 21st century, that challenge is no tion to serving traditional students, the uni 1862 passed the Morrill Act. The govern longer enough. The Urban State University versity reaches out to minorities and to ment deeded thousands of acres of land to now has a vastly broadened mission. Im others in the workforce whose fathers and states for agricultural and mechanical arts pinging upon the historic teaching and re mothers never went to college. colleges. The Land Grant university grew in search roles are a phalanx of problem A significant portion of the student body size and stature, reaching out to America's issues. They include race relations, crime has historically had restricted access to burgeoning middle class. and violence, economic viability, and chang higher education. The average student age ing demographics. They require that higher is around 28, with most students having This special kind of campus stressed ap education improve, adapt, and fit the needs part-time or full-time jobs in addition to plied research and practical studies. In turn, of many constituencies. going to college. Many are already married A and M graduates primed the pumps of the The urban state university cannot be an and have family responsibilities. Many are rural economy and lent aid and comfort to ivory tower. It is part of the grit, grime, enrolled part-time. They often take seven or the great industrial surge of the late 19th clamor, and violence of the city. Today eight years to earn their degrees. century. Land Grant universities served up there is no town-grown separation as there Continuing education and skills training poultry science with a side dish of Plato. was for centuries. The critical mass of for older adults not in regular degree And it worked. For almost a century. today's urban state university is the critical courses is also an increasingly important But . . . Ohio in the last hundred years mass of its community. function. At my own university of over has gone from almost 85 percent rural to 80 This is the challenge: 18,500 regular students, an additional 14,000 percent urban. The rest of the nation did To be seekers of the truth and protectors are enrolled as continuing education stu the same thing. of the integrity of knowledge ... but with dents. Private and state-owned institutions led out the sanctuary of the historic campus as The urban state university is the vital cog the change. They encouraged enrollments protection; to profess ethical and moral be in America's educational future; but it must of middle-class students and somewhat havior ... while being part of the swirl of obtain far greater government and business later, women and minorities. Some tried to the marketplace. . support to carry out its vital role and func hold on the finest in classical education I am absolutely convinced this call to serv tion. while others stoked up graduate schools ing education and the urban citizenry draws Why? into monstrous research machines. dedicated students and faculty to urban America's urban centers are rapidly Latter-day urban state universities state universities and community as mutual changing. Third-world and Hispanic immi emerged after World War II. They provided ly exclusive. They say the search for truth grants and Blacks are growing in number. opportunity for students traditionally ex cannot occur amid the distractions of the Women now make up nearly 50 percent of cluded from higher education. marketplace and crackle of social change. I the workforce and should be two-thirds of Their enrollment continues to grow, but say, in the '90s and beyond, we have no the new workers in the early 21st century. these urban state universities are rapidly choice. At the same time, it's no secret; the world approaching a kind of academic gridlock. Others continue, saying it is impossible to economy is globalizing. Technological ad They will be unable to meet industry de achieve the coupling of urban town and aca vances are accelerating exponentially. You mands for an increasingly better-educated demic gown. Let them. The fact is that the don't have to go further than the pages of work force. necessity of effecting this synergism of co our daily newspapers to be astonished by I am not advocating that we throw out the operating is already upon us. That is why the breakthroughs. baby with the bath water or pitch out John these campuses are the most vital, alive, and The skills we are now teaching in the Bunyan and John Milton, as have some exciting places in America today. urban state university today may not be rel with more fanatical academic agendas. Nor The challenge is unique in the centuries evant tomorrow. New skills are demanded do I believe that the urban state university old history of universities. by this breakneck change. should become a glorified trade school. Historically, the best and brightest So who will create and impart a new cur That would abrogate the elevated mission of almost totally men until the last few gen riculum for this one-world workforce? And the university. erations-enrolled at mostly private and continue to reeducate it? The urban state university must continue elite colleges and universities. They stayed Only one institution is capable of fulfill teaching the disciplines of letters, sciences, for four years and then went home into pre ing such an agenda: the urban state univer fine arts, social services, and human health. ordained, family-based vocations. They mar sity. Bascially a new form of higher educa These are requisite to keep civilization civil ried, became community leaders, and made tion, it has come into its own only since ized. The radical changes must come in preparations for their offspring to do the World War II to meet the changes of the other aspects of curriculum and commit same. cities. ment. If this is a new model, so be it. If this But things changed after World War II. My own Cleveland State University is cele tilts toward revolution rather than evolu After the quite '50s, revolutionaries stormed brating only its 25th Anniversary this year. tion, so be it. campus gates in the 1960s. I know ... I was Within the next quarter century, we could Town and gown must come together. The there. I was an assistant professor at Michi have 50,000 students taking classes in such urban state university can no longer be sep gan when Tom Hayden was working for the courses as urban anthropology to ethics set arated physically or emotionally from the Michigan Daily. I was a Dean at Kent State forth by Aristotle. broader community. Not if it purports to May 21, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11403 take its rightful place in leading America achieve a better education and a ticket to ciency in math, science, geography, history competitively into the next century. the American dream, who can? and writing. ' As a beginning, I have five prescriptions There's no easy answer. 3. Set up a national interdisciplinary com- for urban state universities. The minority student and faculty pres mittee of representatives from America's PRESCRIPTION 1: WORK IN A CLOSE ALLIANCE ence on campus must be improved. We have leading philanthropic foundations to WITH BUSINESS a Vice President for Minority Affairs and study and fund urban state university pro Human Relations who reports directly to grams This is necessary to keep industry com the President. He's overseeing an $800,000 petitive and committed to stay in the geo Cleveland Foundation grant for a new pro 4. Encourage local, state, and federal fund graphic area. At Cleveland State University, gram to improve our ability to recruit and ing of continuing adult education train we call this "partners in renewal." More retain minority students. ing at urban state universities than 85 percent of our graduates stay in the This crusade must go beyond students. In Today, most of this is still self-supporting. immediate area and keep banks, corpora 1988, more than 23,000 doctorates were 5. Corporations must increase their support tions, professional firms, and governmental granted by U.S. graduate schools. Only 805, institutions functioning. for urban state higher education commen I repeat, only 805, went to Blacks. If the strate with the value received from our The Cleveland State University Advanced Ph.D. is the passport to a faculty position, Manufacturing Center does applied re contributions of graduates and research we also must help Blacks in obtaining post Past formulas based on pretax profits are search for numerous clients, from small en graduate degrees. trepreneurial ventures to the Ford Motor out of date and must be reconfigured Company. You read stories about how Japa PRESCRIPTION 5: FOSTER ETHICS AMONG STU upward. In the long run, this only makes nese car makers are out to render the DENTS, FACULTY, AND ADMINISTRATION SO good business sense. United States auto industry outmoded. I tell THAT THEY TRANSLATE THIS BEHAVIOR TO THE Historically, colleges separated themselves you, we are helping area automotive plants COMMUNITY from the community in which they resided to remain competitive because of new cost If urban state universities are not setting so that scholars could seek and impart truth saving technology from our labs. the tone in the academics, athletics, and in unencumbered by the marketplace and poli What a beautiful blend of Adam Smith their own business dealings, then we hardly tics. Today in urban centers, the university and John Henry Newman! In the coming can expect the business world to do much and the marketplace are inseparable. We in years, such academic-business partnerships different. Degree programs, especially in urban academia no longer have the luxury won't be a luxury, they'll be a necessity. the professions, must emphasize the impor of an ivory tower in which to retreat. PRESCRIPTION 2: ESTABLISH STRONGER VOCA- tance of ethical behavior on professional This nation turned to higher education TIONAL AND CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAIN practice. The same is true for the internal, over a century ago to meet a crisis. Universi ING daily interactions of faculty, administration, ties did the job. Today's crisis is far more and staff. severe and far different from that earlier The jobs of tomorrow in an information time. economy will require exceptional skills. These goals can't be accomplished on wishes. They will take money that cannot Today, with a much vaster and diverse Many don't even exist today. What will citizenry concentrated in urban centers, we workers do when forced to learn new skills be generated solely from tuition or from begging the alumni or businesses or even must learn how to develop our human re or lose their jobs? Who will teach them? sources ... human beings ... many of whom Business can't afford to do it alone. The state government. Cleveland State Universi ty is state-assisted not state-supported. Less in our inner cities are spinning in a vortex urban state university must step in. of despair. We must learn how to develop "The issue," predicted John Naisbitt and then half our operating funds come from the state. and as importantly manage our technical Patricia Aburdene in their best-selling Me ability that in today's world grows at warp gatrends 2000, "is not poor-quality jobs or In that need, we're not much different from other urban state universities. That's speed. · low wages. It's how to educate and train In human terms for the nation and world people to qualify for an abundance of good why an enhanced federal commitment to the urban state university is so critical. this is a problem far more serious than that jobs. There are not nearly enough people addressed by universities and colleges with college degrees or advanced vocational Congress in 1979 authorized money for an Urban Grant University Program to fund through the Morrill Act. and technical training to fill the more than Today, only the urban state university can two million new managerial, administrative, many of the same things I am talking about. But the money was never appropriated. meet this challenge head on. With the com and technical jobs coming on-line annually," mitted support of business and government, so say Naisbitt and Aburdene. If we're serious about meeting this crisis, which has grown far more acute in the last we are ready and willing to lead the way for PRESCRIPTION 3: STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY decade, here's what should be done immedi higher education in America. LINKAGES ately to fill the aforementioned prescrip Let me brag a minute. Our College of tions. Urban Affairs is a pioneer in this realm. It OLIN E. TEAGUE AWARD offers courses in public service and training 1. Congress should appropriate spending for programs for elected officials. We have pro the Urban Grant University Program posed an Ohio Commission on Public Serv Cleveland State University, a decade ago, HON. G.V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY ice patterned after the national Volcker felt this federal legislation was so important OF MISSISSIPPI Commission. It will study the personnel that we modeled our own College of Urban IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES needs of government into the 21st century Affairs after it. I was responsible for its cov and then build a curriculum to educate enants and was attending physician at its Monday, May 21, 1990 future governmental administrators. birth. Armed with that federal blueprint, we Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, in a Cleveland State's biology department went to the state legislature for line item ceremony tomorrow in the House Veterans' probably will not study the nesting habits of funding assistance for our Urban University programs. Today, this College and the Affairs Committee Hearing Room, Mr. Malcolm gooney birds in Guam, but we are working "Mac" Farmer, the vocational rehabilitation to keep the Lake Erie shoreline from erod state's Urban University program stand as a ing and studying ways to make the local successful and national prototype for urban and counseling officer at the Huntington, WV, rivers cleaner. Our College of Education has state universities. VA Regional Office and Ms. Helen Remington, scores of programs reaching out to troubled 2. President Bush should appoint a White a clinical nurse specialist at the Carl T. Cleveland public schools. House Commission on Urban State Uni Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, PRESCRIPTION 4: EXPAND THE COMMITMENT TO versities will be honored by the Department of Veter MINORITIES Academic, business, and community lead ans Affairs with its 11th annual Olin E. Teague We all know the abysmal statistics on mi ers should be appointed to this panel to Award. norities in higher education. If we decry the assess just how these institutions can obtain The Olin E. Teague Award is presented an cost of urban crime, drug addiction, and dis funds and work to solve the challenges out nually to a VA employee, or employees work ease in human and financial terms, we are lined here. This would complement what ing as a team, whose achievements have obligated to reach out to those most victim the President has urged in his own sweeping been of special benefit to veterans with serv ized by it: Blacks and other minorities. education reform proposals. ice-connected injuries. The Black high school dropout rate in They also would reinforce the six goals for America's major cities is more than 50 per higher education outlined by U.S. Education Mr. Farmer has had a lengthy career in cent. Minority enrollment and retention in Secretary Lauro Cavazos to be reached by counseling and rehabilitation. His efforts to co higher education is appalling. But if urban the year 2000. These include granting more ordinate community, State, and Federal re state universities can't help minorities degrees to minorities and improving profi- sources in the State of West Virginia have
39-059 0-91-26 (Pt. 8) 11404 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 21, 1990 been invaluable in providing employment op ton's outstanding achievements exemplify out Jonathan Ryan and Lawanda Thomas, portunities to disabled veterans. Veterans of standing Federal service. She is indeed Southfield. West Virginia have achieved a level of em worthy of being honored as a corecipient of I believe that I can speak for other Mem ployment which would not have been possible the Olin E. Teague Award. bers in saying that Congress will do everything were it not for Mr. Farmer's commitment. Mr. Speaker, there is no greater record of that it can to enhance aviation security and Earnings for these veterans increased as service to the Nation's veterans than that of put an end to terrorism in the air. much as 500 percent from prerehabilitation to the late Olin E. (Tiger) Teague, for whom the I want to share my statement from the postrehabilitation status at a time when West award is named. Tiger Teague served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Virginia had the highest unemployment rate in House Veterans Affairs' Committee for 32 the Commission's report with my colleagues in the United States. years, 18 years as its chairman. No one the Congress: Mr. Farmer has been a counseling psychol before and no one since has had a greater ogist with the VA since 1966 and prior to that understanding of veterans' concerns and STATEMENT BY HON. WILLIAMS. BROOMFIELD was a rehabilitation counselor with the West needs nor has anyone done more to address Mr. Chairman, I join you in welcoming Virginia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. them. our witnesses here today and look forward to their comments. Let me commend the He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to I know my colleagues will want to join me in 1953. Attending college under the GI bill, Mr. President for establishing the Commission offering our deep appreciation to Mac Farmer that prepared his comprehensive report. All Farmer completed a bachelors degree in psy and Helen Remington. For their concern, dedi of us owe a debt of gratitude to Ann chology at the College of William and Mary. cation, and innovation in meeting the special McLaughlin, Chairman of the Commission, He then completed a master of science rehabilitation needs of our disabled veterans, and its members and staff for their frank ·degree in rehabilitation counseling at the we congratulate them. assessment of the weaknesses in the U.S. same school. Later, at Marshall University, he civil aviation security system. Let me also completed a graduate program in clinical psy say that I look upon this report as a begin chology and was selected for membership in PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON ning, not an end. Psi Chi, a national honor society in psycholo AVIATION SECURITY AND TER This report must not be put on the shelf gy. RORISM and forgottep. We owe the innocent victims As an officer in VA's Vocational Rehabilita of Pan Am 103 more than mere words and promises. The thoughtful recommendations tion and Counseling Division, his job is to HON. WM. S. BROOMFIELD in this study must not be ignored. We owe assist eligible veterans in overcoming service the families of those who perished over the connected disabilities through vocational train OF MICHIGAN skies of Scotland a commitment to excel ing, independent living services, and other re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lence in aviation security. I don't want the habilitation counseling, plus employment as release of this report to be a public relations sistance. Obviously, he has done his job ex Monday, May 21, 1990 event and nothing more. We owe the Ameri ceptionally well. Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the House can travelers results and not mere fanfare. Helen Remington, a rehabilitation clinical Foreign Affairs Committee recently held a Security is a life and death matter and we nurse specialist at the Carl T. Hayden Medical hearing on the findings of the President's must take it seriously. We should look upon today as the begin Center, Phoenix, AZ, has, through her person Commission on Aviation Security and Terror ning of the rebuilding of the American avia al commitment to meeting the needs of spinal ism. After the tragic loss of Pam Am 103 in tion security system. From the offices of the cord injured veterans, made many contribu 1988 over the skies of Scotland, President FAA to the security check points of Pan tions to rehabilitating spinal cord injured pa Bush established the Commission by Execu Am, it is time to be thorough and sophisti tients through an innovative education pro tive order and named Mrs. Ann Mclaughlin, cated about aviation security. Our efforts gram which addresses the needs of patients former Sectetary of Labor, as Chairman. The will take time, patience and funds and we and their families. Ms. Remington has de following Commission members were also must be ready to commit ourselves to the signed and implemented workshops which named: Senator ALFONSE M. D'AMATO, Repre goal of making the skies safe for travelers. provide up-to-date information to ,assist veter sentative JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Sena We must be creative in our approach to en hancing security. Our approach should in ans and their spouses in the rehabilitation tor FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, Representative clude the use of available state-of-the-art process. She has spent countless hours de JAMES L. OBERSTAR, Gen. Thomas c. Rich detection technology to supplement existing veloping workshops, coordinating new materi ards, U.S. Air Force-retired, and former Sec screening techniques. We must also look at als and information from the fields of re retary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo. other tools in the fight against terrorists. search, medicine, nursing, and social work, I want to commend Mrs. Mclaughlin for her We must be willing to take a long, hard and locating notable speakers to present this excellent report. The Commission members look at states that support international ter information directly to veterans and their f ami and the professional staff also deserve our rorism. Our air strike on Libya a few years lies. praise for their comprehensive and frank ago produced surprising results. Qaddafi re Ms. Remington joined the VA in 1978 as an review of the deficiencies in the U.S. aviation duced his involvement in terrorism. There are times when covert action is an appropri adult nurse practitioner in ambulatory care. security system. This report must not be read ate tool to use against terrorist-supporting Prior to that she held faculty, supervisory, and and forgotten. Our Government must ensure states. International cooperation and the staff nurse positions in private sector hospitals that the reports' recommendations are careful exchange of intelligence information are in Idaho and in Phoenix, AZ. In 1977 she re ly reviewed and implemented. We owe the also critical if we are to win the battle ceived a masters degree in nursing from Ari families of the victims of Pan Am 103 a com against terrorism in the skies. zona State University, a bachelors degree in mitment to excellence in the U.S. aviation se Let me commend the good work of the nursing from Idaho State University in 1970, curity system. Scottish police and other police services in and in 1978 was certified as a family nurse The victims of the terrible terrorist act came the United Kingdom for their brilliant in practitioner in the State of Arizona. She has from many countries and from many States. I vestigative work on this tragedy and for their cooperation with our government. U.S. been inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National would like to list the names of the Michigan Government agencies involved in this pains Honor Society and Sigma Theta Tau Interna residents who perished in that terrible disas taking investigation also contributed much tional Nursing Honor Society. ter: to the overall investigative effort. Throughout her career with the VA, Ms. Lawrence Ray Bennett, Chelsea. The citizens of Lokerbie, Scotland deserve Remington has consistently demonstrated James Ralph Fuller, Bloomfield Hills. our thanks for their caring and sensitive dedication to providing high quality nursing Kenneth James Gibson, Romulus. handling of a terrible experience for them, care to disabled veterans and has been espe Pamela Elaine Herbert, Battle Creek. the victims' families and the American cially cognizant of the special needs of spinal Khalid Nazir Jaafar, Dearborn. people. Gregory Kosmowski, Milford. I join the Chairman in promising to do ev cord injured patients. She was recognized by erything possible here in Congress to help the Veterans of Foreign Wars with an Out Louis Anthony Marengo, Rochester. to dramatically improve the aviation securi standing Service Award in 1986 and received Anmol, Garina, and Suruchi Rattan, Warren. ty system. Today is the beginning of a secu the Barrier Buster Award from the Paralyzed Mary Edna Smith, Kalamazoo. rity rebuilding effort. It is time to roll up Veterans of America in 1978. Ms. Reming- Arva Anthony Thomas, Detroit. our sleeves and get to work. May 21, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11405 PASS REPLACEMENT WORKER is sanctioned by practice and by the admin ment and Disposal. I have introduced such a LEGISLATION THIS YEAR istration. Everybody expects any bill revers measure, House Concurrent Resolution 269 ing that ancient Supreme Court ruling to face a veto by George Bush, the smiling plu and I invite my colleagues to cosponsor my HON. THOMAS M. FOGLIETT A tocrat. bill. OF PENNSYLVANIA It will take more than the simple homilies Mr. Speaker, protecting and maintaining the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES union leaders have gotten accustomed to in environment cannot be achieved by the few, good times to restore balance. Politicians no matter how great their expertise. Every last Monday, May 21, 1990 must feel heat or they won't consider send single American must recognize that if we do Mr. FOGLIETIA. Mr. Speaker, the use of ing "permanent replacements" packing, let not protect the Earth, the Earth cannot possi replacement workers as a means for manage alone repeal the odious Taft-Hartley Act. bly protect us from a multitude of disasters. It ment to win labor disputes is becoming more It might even take militance. It has been a while since we had an old-fashioned sit requires vigilance from us each day, and every and more prevalent. Most recently, we saw it down strike. At least that takes up the space day. used in the Greyhound strike. where "permanent replacements" take I draw my colleagues' attention to the edito other people's jobs. rial in the Philadelphia Daily News below, from INSIDE THE NEW ALLIANCE May 1, 1990, regarding the use of replace PARTY ment workers to jeopardize the collective- bar EARTH DAY 1990 gaining process as designed in the National HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI HON. MERVYN M. DYMALLY Labor Relations Act of 1935. It presents more OF KENTUCKY OF CALIFORNIA reasons to cosponsor-and pass-replace IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment worker legislation this year. I sponsored a bill (H.R. 2969) which would bar the use of Monday, May 21, 1990 Monday, May 21, 1990 replacement workers, whose hiring would prej Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. DYMALL Y. Mr. Speaker, I submit, for udice the status of legal strikers, during the thank and commend all the country's citi Members' review, a paper on the New Alli pendency of a strike. My colleague, BILL zens-particularly those in Louisville and Jef ance Party, by Dennis L. Serrette, former CLA v, has also sponsored similar legislation, ferson County-who helped make Earth Day 1984 candidate for President. H.R. 3936. 1990 an outstanding success. INSIDE THE NEW ALLIANCE PARTY AKA RAIN I urge my colleagues to consider this editori The 20th anniversary of Earth Day renewed BOW ALLIANCE AKA RAINBOW LOBBY AKA al and consider cosponsoring this important the environmental conscience of America and THE ORGANIZATION AKA legislation today. educated our younger persons of the impor Taylor, who NAP vociferously praised similarities between the LaRouche and third was in charge of "national oper as a leading Black trade unionist when he Newman operations are astounding. ations." associated with NAP, was attacked as a rank At the outset, I want to answer the fre The organization was elitist and oppres opportunist when he joined with SEIU. quently asked question ... Is Newman asso sive, having set up its own internal caste ciated with LaRouche? I simply do not Gerena Valentine was lauded as New York's system. Rank and file members worked 14 premier progressive elected official when he know. I understand that Newman originally plus hours a day, often out on street corners completely denied having joined with ran with a NAP affiliation, and harshly raising money. Newman, on the other hand, criticized when he broke with NAP. LaRouche, claiming, instead, that it was his spent most mornings reading in his large followers who had, but that he was forced upper Westside apartment and jogging in Newman not only uses his paper, the Na to retract the denial in the face of over Riverside Park. His workday began with his tional Alliance, to attack, but he uses the whelming evidence. The story told to all or afternoon therapy sessions in his luxury state in his attempt to destroy those he ganization members who were not with Westside offices. imagines to be his enemies. It has been Newman at the time was that Newman and Newman and his chosen lieutenants often widely reported how he sent his lackey at his followers were with LaRouche when he met and relaxed at his seaside mansion. The torney Harry Kresky to the FBI with the was "a leftist", "a split from SDS", pre-Op mansion was supported by a mandatory tax identification of a member of the weather eration Mop-up. I have since learned that placed on members of the organization. underground who had taken his child away this was a lie, that they joined after La Even if one could not afford food, the Long from the Newman cult. Rouche had made a decisive right shift, and Island house tax had to be paid. Rank and Currently, Newman is using the state in participated in the campaign to destroy the file members were always taken along on his relentless efforts to destroy Charles Tis left. I did not see any direct evidence of a trips to the mansion for the "honor" of dale, the editor of The Jackson Advocate. LaRouche connection while I was in NAP. cooking for and cleaning up after Newman Tisdale, a long time Black activist has risked But, I was never privy to what was going on and his chosen ones. his life to publish Jackson, Mississippi's at the top-Newman's household. Newman One of the big fights I had on my cam only Black newspaper. Both his home and often bragged about how much he learned paign, a fight which resulted in Nancy Ross the Jackson Advocate offices have been fire from LaRouche, and, as already noted, the and I thereafter travelling separately, re bombed by the KKK, who, like Newman, do reported organizational operations of La flects the racist, classist attitude that so not want to see a Black newspaper in Jack Rouche's group are frighteningly similar to permeated the organization's operations. son.2 Just this summer, Tisdale was shot at those of Newman's group. Ross, myself, a white middle class female on two separate occasions. The New Alliance Party is but one of campaign worker, and a Black working class Newman has brought a million dollar plus many front organizations controlled by Fred 1 male campaign worker were staying at a law suit against Tisdale and the Jackson Ad Newman. Black reverend's home in the South. After a vocate. Why? When Newman saw the broad Newman is a man possessed with the need lovely breakfast, the white woman ordered support Jesse Jackson received in the for power. Power at any cost to those the Black man to clean the kitchen while South, he decided to target some resources around him and without regard to the polit she and Ross relaxed. The reverend, embar there. He assigned several New Yorkers to ical line. He will ruthlessly attack progres rassed, asked that the kitchen be left as it sives without second thought, and reverse Mississippi. Tisdale, having knowledge was. It was his home, he stated, and he about the Alliance, did not support NAP's positions, if he deems it advantageous. would take care of it. The white woman ig Like LaRouche's National Caucus of claim on his community. Knowing the time nored the reverend and demanded that the and resources required to publish a newspa Labor Committees, Newman runs a very Black man get up and clean. When I inter tightly controlled organization. Like La per, and the time and resources required to vened, Ross indignantly insisted that they defend a law suit, Newman had Kresky slap Rouche, Newman has created numerous or had every right to order such service from ganizations with diver a major lawsuit on Tisdale. After all, the worker. Kresky's services are free-he is a member gent names; some to attract particular indi Newman's/NAP's political positions vary viduals some solely to make money, many of the organization, and accordingly, both according to what he believes he can best he and his resources belong to Newman, as with n~mes so similar to true left organiza capitalize on at the time. The accompanying tions that unknowing individuals are often chair. It does not matter if NAP loses the articles by Ken Lawrence document these case. NAP almost always loses. The suit fooled. . Members generally share (the vast majority of whom are progressives they were wrong; Hazel Darren (his woman apartments, living communally, and often who have struggled for justice and freedom partner for the longest period) would be invite new recruits to move in with them. I most of their lives and who haven't the re chair. It was so ordained. cannot recall any member who lived with a sources to combat Newman's onslaught). There is an enormous amount of secret non-organization person, unless there were In conclusion, while I believe it is impor ritual surrounding the !WP-which, like designs to bring the non-member in. Mem most ritual, entices the members. Unlike bers and potential members were often en tant that NAP be exposed for what it truly most left organizations where the party is couraged to quit their pre-IWP job, unless is, it is our job, not to dwell on NAP, which public and the membership is underground, their job position was one Newman believed craves controversy, but to get into our com Newman has created the reverse, and has he could exploit. Absolute loyalty was due munities and organize, organize, organize. It used it as one of many isolating factors that Newman and nobody else. One leading is the vacuum that has been left open that maintain the membership. member of the CC proudly announced that allows NAP and other oppressive organiza Social therapy, Newman's creation, is con if Fred told her to jump off a roof, she tions to abuse our communities. We must sidered the "backbone of the tendency." would do so, no questions asked. eliminate that vacuum with genuinely pro Every member is required to attend at least Any problems that arise for members by gressive, community-controlled organiza one social therapy if they were experiencing Maryland ...... a shortfall; (3) shortfall amount ; <4> Massachusetts ...... 18.0~~ ...... 1:600 ...... i.. s:S" ...... 1:000 Mr. STANGELAND. Mr. $peaker, last week whether they had placed any restrictions on NA ...... =~~~a ·:::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::: 77,000 900 1 5,6 2,000 I introduced, by request, the administration's any criteria of participants and; <5> how NA ...... omnibus Corps of Engineers bill, the Water many participants would be eliminated. =:=~r.~ . ::::::::: : ::::::::::::: :: :: ::: : : 92,000 2,200 5,6 2,000 Resources Development Act of 1990. There are a variety of causes for the fiscal Montana ...... NA ...... Nebraska ...... NA ...... This legislation, like its counterpart in the crisis, however, the most significant was a Nevada ...... 16,000 120 5,6 500 higher than anticipated inflation rate for New Hampshire...... 15,000 400 1 6 800 Senate, S. 2469 and S. 2470, will help provide New Jersey ...... NA ...... House and Senate public works committees food. State agencies were encouraged to New Mexico ...... NA ...... expand their caseloads based on revenue New York ...... 371,000 3,000 5,6 3,600 with a framework to enact into law an omni North Carolina ...... 138,000 3,000 5,6 1,500 bus bill by year's end. So far this year, the provided by infant formula rebates (see North Dakota ...... 16,000 225 6 800 below>. Applications for WIC participation Ohio ...... 200,000 1,600 1 4,5,6 2,000 House Public Works' Water Resources Sub grew, many believe, because of increases in Oklahoma ...... 58,000 2,000 5,6 3,200 committee has held four hearings on corps' 49,000 1,500 l 3,4,5,6 2,000 unemployment, Medicaid referrals, and NA ...... projects and programs. Members and public overall awareness of the program. However, =~\~rf~F :::::::::::::::::::::::::: 16,000 128 5,6 500 and private witnesses have testified about South Carolina ...... NA ...... overall food costs increased higher than 4.5 South Dakota ...... NA ...... dozens of project proposals and program percent inflation rate for which Congress Tennessee ...... NA ...... changes. Several are already included in the appropriated funds in fiscal year 1990. Texas ...... 354,000 12,500 3,4,5,6 3,000 Utah ...... 49,000 2,000 5,6 2,200 administration's package of legislative propos Many states are reporting inflation rates of NA ...... als. 8 percent to 20 percent. Therefore, rising ~~gr:t.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 87 ,000 600 6 1,200 This bill contains 18 proposals. Four are food costs have made many states unable to NA ...... 37,000 612 3,4,5,6 3,000 new projects that have made their way sustain their current expanded caseloads. :~~r '.~:::::::::::::: : ::: :: : : ::::::: 78.000 1,000 1 3,5,6 3,000 The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthor Wyoming ...... 9,500 37 • 5,6 1,400 through the entire planning process and re .ceived the Secretary of the Army's approval ization Act of 1989 encouraged agencies to Total ...... 67 ,322,000 ...... 52,700 use savings from cost containment measures and another is a project modification. The re to expand their caseload. One such measure 1 Denotes restrictions placed throughout local agencies only. maining proposals involve programmatic initia was the infant formula rebate system. Note.- NA denotes States that either do not have a deficit or restrictions at tives that range from increased cost-sharing Under it, formula companies bid for con this time. and user fees to expanded research and de tracts in states by promising per-can rebates velopment opportunities to personnel matters on infant formula purchased by or for WIC TRIBUTE TO THE WILSON AREA and emergency response authorities. participants. USDA estimated that $450 mil HIGH SCHOOL BAND Personally, I have concerns about some of lion would be realized from rebates in 1990. the provisions, such as the suggested Under WIC program rules, applicants are changes to the successful section 22, plan , served according to a six-step priority HON. DON RITTER ning assistance to States, and section 206, system. Priorities 1-4 serve pregnant and OF PENNSYLVANIA flood plain management services programs, breastfeeding women, infants and children IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as well as the proposal to more than triple the with either medically-caused nutritional de harbor maintenance trust fund fee. But the bill ficiencies or with an inadequate dietary pat Monday, May 21, 1990 as a whole has some important initiatives, tern that puts them at nutrional risk. Prior Mr. RITIER. Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure such as provisions on magnetic levitation ities 5 and 6 serve children for me to rise today to pay tribute to the transportation, and the corps existing section and post partum women at nutritional risk. Wilson Area High School Band from the 1135 environmental demonstration program. Under the current fiscal squeeze, states are Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. These need to be part of the congressional reducing their caseloads according to these The Wilson Area High School Band is in debate. priorities, eliminating persons from the Washington this week to participate in the Na Therefore, I'm pleased to introduce the lowest categories first. tional Festival of the States Celebration-a Water Resources Development Act of 1990. I The following data show the states' cur musical salute to America. One band from commend Assistant Secretary of the Army rent monthly caseload ; the prior Columbia chose this group to represent the mittee chairman GLENN ANDERSON, ranking ities the states are not serving in order to great State of Pennsylvania in this year's cele Republican JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, and stay within their funding limits ; and the number of participants elimi The 11 O members of the Wilson Area High also to be commended for their bipartisan nated per month as a result of eliminating School Band, under the direction of William long-standing support of the corps' program the respective priorities . Some Curnow, have participated in band competi and their commitment to a 2-year reauthoriza states have placed restrictions on the prior tions throughout Pennsylvania and around the tion cycle. ities statewide; others only in certain local country and have been recognized as one of Like me, they look forward to working with agencies. Figures are based on average the outstanding high school bands in America. the administration and the Senate. I know all monthly rates. The band will perform two conce~s today in my colleagues on the Public Works Commit- May 21, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 11409 tee are eager to begin drafting comprehensive Century National Bank FINANCIAL REPORT Total liabilities ...... 244,150.43 HON. GREG LAUGHLIN Net worth: OF TEXAS Total assets...... 620,283.25 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARTIN FROST Total liabilities ...... 244,150.43 OF TEXAS Monday, May 21, 19~0 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Total net worth ...... 376,134.82 Mr. LAUGHLIN. Mr. Speaker, it is a great Monday, May 21, 1990 privilege for me to say that for the second consecutive year, a student from the 14th Dis Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, as I have done TRIBUTE TO LT. COL. LINWARD APPLING trict of Texas has received national recogni each year of my service in Congress, I am tion for an entry in the Artistic Discovery Art today placing in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD HON. IKE SKELTON competition. a thorough personal financial report through The Congressional Arts Caucus established OF MISSOURI December 1989. While these disclosures go this competition in order to encourage and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES well beyond what is required by the financial recognize the artistic talents of young Ameri disclosure rules of the House, I believe it is Monday, May 21, 1990 cans throughout our great country, and I am appropriate information for the RECORD: Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, with great proud to have Linda Gold represent the 14th Balance sheet: Martin and Valerie Frost pleasure I rise today to recognize Lt. Col. Lin District of Texas this year. CAs of Dec. 31, 19891 ward Appling, a dedicated leader of our Na Linda Gold, a senior at Rice High School in Assets: tion's young soldiers and a great American. Altair, Texas is one of many national winners Condominium, Dallas, TX ...... $47,500.00 Lieutenant Colonel Appling is the professor of who will have artwork displayed along the House and lot, Arlington, VA .... 292,100.00 military science at Lincoln University in Mis tunnel leading to the United States Capitol. Home furnishings and other souri. Because of his efforts, the Lincoln Uni Her talent and the guideance of her instructor, personal effects...... 35,000.00 versity Blue Tiger Battalion has become one Ms. Sandra Benje, are indicative of the high Savings, Wright Patman Feder- of the top 1O ROTC programs in the Nation. quality of students and teachers the 14th Dis al Credit Union ...... 51.69 In fact, just recently, the Blue Tigers became trict has to offer the State of Texas and the Checking account, Wright regional champions of the ROTC Ranger United States of America. Patman Federal Credit Union ...... 1,087.05 Challenge. Retirement, U.S. Congress ...... 38,031.81 This was no easy accomplishment. Prior to August 1985, before Lieutenant Colonel Ap A TRIBUTE TO REV. CANON Thrift savings plan ...... 11,922.70 JOHN T. MOORE, JR. IRA's (Martin and Valerie) ...... 23,656.00 pling came to Lincoln University, the universi ty's ROTC program suffered from weakness in Subtotal ...... 449,349,25 training and academic performance, a situa HON. BEN GARRIDO BLAZ tion which the Army was determined to re OF GUAM· Automobiles: solve. The Army placed the program on pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1984 Toyota van ...... 3,525.00 bation and assigned Lieutenant Colonel Ap 1985 Pontiac 600 ...... 4,550.00 pling to the formidable task of revitalizing the Monday, May 21, 1990 program. Mr. BLAZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay 8,075.00 Subtotal ...... He arrived with orders to emphasize "qual tribute to an outstanding Guam educator, the ity rather than quantity," and he did just that. Stocks and bonds: Reverend Canon John T. Moore, Jr., who is 596 Shares Central and South- By training cadets according to active duty retiring as headmaster of St. John's School in west ...... 23,318.00 Army standards and encouraging them to live Guam. 816 Shares Exxon ...... 40,902.00 by the Blue Tiger motto, "training is everything · Reverend Moore has served more than 19 209 Shares General Motors ...... 8,934.00 and everything is training," he brought new years as headmaster of St. John's School. 300 Shares Houston Industries . 10,575.00 spirit and skills to the battalion. Lieutenant Dramatic changes have taken place at the 281 Shares Eli Lilly ...... 18,546.00 Colonel Appling also initiated a program for school during his tenure. He provided the 1062 Shares Fundamental In- community involvement in his pursuit of the vision, direction, and leadership that has made vestors ...... 17,204.00 high standards. St. John's the most prestigious educational in U.S. Savings Bonds ...... 300.00 Through intense participation in community stitution in Guam today. He did this not only 300 Shares Wal-Mart ...... 13,012.00 involvement, the Blue Tiger Battalion achieved through his exceptional administrative skills 8 Shares General Motors .... . 435.00 the Department of the Army Community Rela but also with his zealousness in keeping 8 Shares General Motors .. .. 199.00 tions Excellence Award. It has won that award abreast of modern educational practices, con 123 Shares Waste Manage- for the past 4 years, every year since Lieuten cepts, and techniques. He is also solely re ment ...... 4,182.00 ant Colonel Appling took charge. In addition, sponsible for upgrading the quality of teachers 590 Shares Blockbuster Enter- tainment ...... 9,956.00 the Blue Tigers' enthusiastic training brought at the school; instituting policy for certification 120 Shares Merck ...... 9,090.00 the title to the Missouri Ranger Challenge in of teachers; increasing their salaries and ben 75 Shares Schering Plough ...... 6,206.00 1988 and 1989. And the Blue Tiger Battalion efits; and throughout the years encouraging dominated this year's ROTC Ranger Chal faculty and staff to develop their own personal Subtotal ...... 162,859.00 lenge competition through its teamwork and growth and development. He is also responsi overall performance. ble for instituting a scholarship program which Total assets...... 620,283.25 I am sure my fell ow colleagues in the gives financial aid to students on basis of House of Representatives will appreciate the need and academic performance. Liabilities: dedicated duty that Lieutenant Colonel Ap A native of Mobile, AL, Father Moore at Mortgages: pling has shown his cadets, the Army, and tended Marion Institute and graduated from Wilmington Savings Fund Society outstanding landmarks-the Cleveland Reissue of a mini-dollar and banning of Arcade. On Friday, May 31, the Arcade cele circulating the dollar note brings to the SYLVIA BROWN AND FRIENDS brates its 1OOth anniversary as Clevelands forefront a controversy that has brewed for OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS premier building complex. a decade, ever since the U.S. Treasury De partment proposed it as part of the Susan AROUND THE COUNTRY SHOW As the first cornerstone of the Arcade was B. Anthony dollar marketing plan in Sep THEIR SUPPORT being laid on May 31 , 1888, Cleveland was tember 1979. making its mark as one of America's great in But it would hardly be the first time that dustrial centers. Some visionaries for Cleve a denomination of currency-or even coin HON. RON de LUGO land's future saw an opportunity to create a was retired by Congress to make way for state-of-the-art architectural structure, more progress as the nation's lawmakers defined OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS elaborate than any other in the United States. it at that particular moment. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Their idea was to construct an enclosed pas Advocated by The Coin Coalition, the new small-sized dollar would not bear the Antho Monday, May 21, 1990 sageway, five stories high, that included a col ny portrait, and would be issued with the lection of shops and businesses. This forerun intent of displacing the paper dollar that Mr. DE LUGO. Mr. Speaker, I come from a ner to the shopping mall connected superior very small community, the U.S. Virgin Islands, has circulated with the current familiar Street and Euclid Avenue, two of downtown design and size since 1929. but we enjoy a very big extended family Cleveland's main thoroughfares. Displacement of the dollar note by statute throughout the United States. The Arcade was designed by the revolution would be the essential difference between I was reminded of that fact as I reviewed a ary architect John Eisenmann. His plans de the 1990 strategy proposed to Congress and petition signed by hundreds of Virgin Islanders tailed a very unconventional design and drew the manner in which the Anthony dollar and friends of the Virgin Islands who are con was implemented a decade ago. great skepticism. Mr. Eisenmann designed a With congressional hearings on the new cerned about the reconstruction of the Virgin building of arches that used a system of truss small-size dollar scheduled for mid-spring, Islands public schools after the devastation es rather than the commonly used crossbrac the inevitable focus will be on the very issue created by Hurricane Hugo. We are still living ing-an unheard-of concept. Contractor after that was divisive in 1979; whether the Amer with that devastation and working pell mell to contractor refused to construct this building, ican people would tolerate elimination of get our schools rebuilt by September so we until finally the Detroit Bridge Co. came for their old friend, the dollar note. are back in good shape for the next school ward and agreed to make this vision a reality. Fortunately for serious numismatists, the proposal of The Coin Coalition does not pre year. The U.S. Department of Education, after On May 30, 1890, the work was finished. The Arcade was heralded as the largest and vent outright elimination of the $1 currency considerable discussion, finally did come note in all forms; sheets would still be pro through. It conducted an accelerated review tallest building ever attempted in the United duced, as now, and offered to collectors. of the Virgin Islands grant application, made a States. This magnificent building has provided But for the public at large, the proposal's significant grant of $43 million under its disas generation upon generation of Clevelanders sponsors believe that its only sure way of ter aid program to make the repair and recon with a place to shop, to browse, to eat, and to success is to eliminate competition and do get shelter from foul weather. what the Treasury Department itself pro struction possible, and waived the unusual 25- While the Arcade is no longer the tallest or posed in 1979: "effect a displacement of $1 percent local matching requirement. largest building in Cleveland, it is still a very bills." One special group has formed in the State important fixture. Its brilliance and beauty has COLLECTOR SUPPORT of Kentucky to help us in the overwhelming enabled it to stand the test of time. Today's Coin collectors ought to be particularly in job of reconstruction. Endeavors to Reinvest Arcade, under the fine direction of Harvey terested in the proposal, and ought to be en in Virgin Islands Education, under the able Oppmann and Oppmann Properties, remains a thusiastic endorsers and supporters for the leadership of Sylvia J. Brown, has sprung up place that every Clevelander enjoys and ad new mini-dollar coin, even if the price is to offer national support to our reconstruction. elimination of the $1 paper note. mires. I would like to congratulate the Arcade Reason one is that it will close off, with fi ERVIE, as it is known, has circulated a peti on its 1OOth anniversary and give my best nality, the Anthony dollar series and create tion throughout many States and hundreds of wishes for another century of success. a new dollar coin in the process. Result: people have lent their name to our cause-re more interest in dollars ranging from Mor building our schools and providing the best gans to those of a century later. COINAGE REFORM education possible to our students. They have Such a change will inevitably catch the at forwarded their petition to President Bush, tention of the regular media as well, which HON. JIM KOLBE will likely feature numerous stories about Education Secretary Cavazos, Virgin Islands coins and coin collectors, as well as paper Governor Farrelly, Virgin Islands Education OF ARIZONA money together with the Commissioner Creque, and president of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES effect of money on society as a whole. Virgin Islands Legislature, Bent Lawaetz, as Monday, May 21, 1990 What that translates to is an opportunity to bring fresh blood into a group that des well as myself. Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, with the continu Mr. Speaker, this sort of national concern is perately needs new members. Just as collec ing success of Canada's new gold-colored tors of silver certificates Brown and her colleagues for their shared House hearings on a new coin dollar for the attracted some to become paper money col concern and determination to help their home United States scheduled for tomorrow, I would lectors, this entire program could serve to in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is heartening to like to bring to the attention of this body the attract new blood to see coins and paper see that Virgin Islanders who move to the comments of Mr. David L. Ganz. money in a historical, collectible context. No one likes to kill off a coin, or a paper mainland retain their strong commitment to Mr. Ganz is the legislative council of the money issue, but it has certainly happened the welfare of their home islands. Their efforts American Numismatist Association, the gener many times before. The half cent was elimi are a wonderful reminder that the Virgin Is al counsel of the Professional Numismatists nated in 1857, the 2- and 3-cent coins with lands has many friends throughout this great Guild, and a member of the Industry Council the Coinage Act of 1873, and the 20-cent country. for Tangible Assets. He is regarded as per- coins a very short life of just three years. 11414 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 21, 1990 Fractional currency -Eni, tough on your name, but I got age 25 and over had at least a high school close, didn't I? Okay. And all the Members sisters and cousins, who found freedom in degree-well above the national average of America. of Congress who are with us here today, and 66 percent. This nation is incomparably a special welcome to Frank Horton. My And so it is in your honor that I sign this heavens-Frank, because of your diligence richer because of great scientists like Nobel measure proclaiming this to be Asian Pacific in working with so many of your colleagues Price Winner Dr. Yuan Lee and the late An American Heritage Month. in the Congress in the support of Jeanne Wang. We are richer because of the talent Thank you all. May God bless you. And Jew and Ruby Moy, we established Asia-Pa of Michael Chang and the courage of the may God bless the United States of Amer cific American Heritage Week. late Ellison Onizuka. And we are richer be ica. [Applause.] Now, I'm proud to make one more step cause of Asian Pacific American leaders, and proclaim this May to be the first Asia many of them with us here today. Count among them Elaine Chao; number ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, Pacific American Heritage Month. . First, let me acknowledge with re two in this enormous Department of Trans spect the gentleman in the Senate who was portation of ours. Wendy Gramm, Chair modity Future Trading. Cindy Daub, Com us-a great man, a great friend who wrote A PROCLAMATION both haiku and lasting legislation with that missioner of the Copywright Royalty Tribu same graceful fluency. And I, of course, am mal; Kyo Jhin, who will be named shortly to The history of Asian and Pacific Ameri talking about our beloved friend, the last a senior position at the Department of Vet cans in the United States is a long and hon Senator Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii. I think eran Affairs. My own-I say my own-our orable one. Determined to uphold America's this ought to be his day. CLEVELAND ARCADE thing about the facade says power, strength, desirable public amenity is once again be stability and endurance. coming an integral part of new and renovat The heaviness of the exterior gives way to ed downtown buildings. HON. MARY ROSE OAKAR a light-filled space that soars 100 feet from While the concept of a protected pedestri OF OHIO mosaic marble floors to an arched skylight. an street was new to Cleveland a century IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thin columns support the webbed glass, ago, the idea of constructing a building with iron and steel roof. Iron beams at roof level a hole in the middle was commonplace. Monday, May 21, 1990 terminate in gilded cast-iron griffin heads, Before the advent of powerful electric light Ms. OAKAR. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to whose mouths once held lightbulbs. ing, large buildings typically were construct Ornamental streetlamps march rhythmi ed around light wells that allowed natural note the birthday this week of a very special cally along lacy balcony railings, Store light to penetrate into interior spaces. honoree. The architectural masterpiece, the fronts gleam with polished brass and gilded The Perry-Payne Building in the Ware Arcade in my hometown of Cleveland, OH, is metal. A grand marble staircase sweeps up house District was renowned for its glass 100 years old this Memorial Day weekend. to the Euclid Ave. entrance. roofed light court. Society Bank on Public The Arcade, which has hosted Presidents The Euclid entrance to the Arcade origi Square was designed with a nine-story light and Presidential candidates, office parties, nally was designed much like the monumen well topped with a vaulted skylight. In and proms, opened its doors to a wondering tal Superior Ave. facade. The Euclid arch recent years, old light wells at Stouffer public on May 26, 1890. It was then, and is was narrower, though, and it rested on Tower City Plaza Hotel and the New Eng stone piers. land Life Insurance Building have been cov now, a spectacular engineering feat that In 1939, the rounded sandstone arch was ered with skylights and transformed into linked two nine-story office buildings with a replaced with a polished granite Art Mo pleasant contemporary atriums. skylighted five-story gallery of retail shops and deme front that exemplified the taste of When van Dijk first stepped inside the offices. the times and identified the Euclid entrance overwhelming interior of the Arcade in In 1975, the Arcade became the first Cleve as the building's front door. Though the 1961, he expressed his amazement to a resi land building to be registered on the National new entrance lacks the grandeur of the old, dent barber, who replied, "They don't build Register of Historic Buildings. Its modern day it does not destroy the dramatic sequence of 'em like this anymore-all that wasted success, following several years of neglect, is spaces leading into the 233-foot-long shop space." ping street. With the development of bright interior due, in no small measure, to the passion and Pedestrians entering from Euclid Ave. lighting, rooms in the middle of large build vision of its present owner, Harvey Oppman. pass through a lobby with a coffered ceiling, ings no longer needed windows, and the Mr. Speaker, I ask permission to include in then tum a comer into a rotunda. There, light well became a thing of the past. To my remarks a brief, but colorful, history of the magnificently unfolding before the eye is make more efficient use of the "wasted" Arcade which appeared recently in my home the entire shopping street in all its architec space. light wells were frequently filled in town newspaper, the Plain Dealer. tural splendor. with office floors. When the Arcade was conceived in the When Oppmann purchased the Arcade in THE .ARCADE TURNS 100, STRUCTURE REMAINS late 1880s, the architects were faced with 1978, a developer had made a competitive .ARCHITECTURAL JEWEL the challenge of connecting two office build bid to tear down the historic building and
