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which is the field of reporting on business as

legitimate news, and the field of interpreting

economic events as a matter of genuine public

information. Rowen understood that economics is an academic field, but he also understood that economic events have enormous

public importance, and need to be reported as

issues of basic public concern.

Hobart Rowen started as a copy boy at the

Journal of Commerce, but soon became a reporter assigned to commodities. With the outbreak of World War II he was sent to Washington to cover defense expansion and how

business responded to war mobilization. He

served two years with the War Production

Board, and in 1944 went to Newsweek magazine. Ben Bradlee, the fabled editor of the

Washington Post, was also at Newsweek, and

eventually, as editor of the newspaper,

brought Rowen in to become financial editor.

At the Post, Rowan supervised the paper’s

Sunday business section and expanded the

daily business coverage, bringing that page

into the real world of reporting and making its

impact important to the community and to the

nation’s understanding of economics, economic policy and business regulation. At

Newsweek, Rowen had done a widely admired column on business trends and economic issues, and he continued that work at

the Post. Rowen understood the basic economic changes that were taking place, and

how those would play out. He understood—

and was the first to report—the forces that led

to the closing of the gold window, which was

the end of the Bretton Woods monetary arrangement, and that the dollar would be devalued. He understood—and was the first to

report—the bungled economic policies that led

to wage and price controls. And he understood the futility of palliatives like those controls, that basic economic issues must be addressed with realistic policies. This was not

happening, and so he lamented how unrealistic policies were leading the nation toward

‘‘slow but steady self-strangulation.’’

And how right he was. Mr. Rowen foresaw

the events that so discomfit us today: the slow

fall in real income, the slow poisoning of the

dollar resulting from a seemingly intractable

trade deficit, the folly and virtual insanity of the

Reagan era fiscal policy, and much else. Hobart Rowen was, in the words of Ben Bradlee,

‘‘the first economics reporter of his generation

who could go to a press conference about economics and know more than the guy who

gave it.’’ Hobart Rowen, largely the inventor of

his craft, certainly did know his beat; he was

a sure analyst, a fine craftsman and a firstrate reporter. His achievements earned a long

list of awards, probably more than any other

reporter in his field.

I am an admirer of Hobart Rowen’s work,

and an admirer of him as a decent, honorable,

thoughtful human being. He made immense

contributions to the country, through the diligent and thoughtful exercise of a craft that

truly was his own. I applaud his life and salute

his achievements. His voice will be sorely

missed.

[From the Washington Post, Apr. 14, 1995]

HOBART ROWEN

‘‘Good writing on economic subjects need

not be dull,’’ Hobart Rowen once wrote

shortly after he joined the staff of this newspaper, and he spent the next three decades

daily illustrating the truth of that declaration. He represented a major development in

the history of The Post, and of American

journalism generally, for he was among the

first reporters capable of explaining modern

economics to lay readers and illuminating

for them the intellectual concepts that were

driving public policy.

In a time when daily financial reporting

tended heavily toward the ups and downs of

the stock market, Mr. Rowen wrote about

the world and the international forces that

were affecting jobs and incomes here. That

was doubly unusual because, in the 1960s,

international economics was widely regarded

in this country even among professional

economists as a marginal subject. The United States dominated the world economy and,

the conventional wisdom held, the rest was a

minor specialty. That was true enough for

the first 20 years or so after World War II,

but then that domination began to erode

and, as the country discovered in the inflationary 1970s, policy suddenly became much

more complex.

As a reporter, Mr. Rowen scored many

coups. In the spring of 1967, for example, he

earned the memorable hostility of the Johnson administration by quoting the warnings

of a ‘‘high government official’’—later identified as the chairman of the Federal Reserve

Board—that the costs of the Vietnam War

were going to rise far higher than the president’s current estimates. As Mr. Rowen

knew, and as later events showed, those

warnings were more than adequately justified.

But his real contribution lay less in even

the best of the good stories and columns,

taken one by one, than in the way he redefined the job of reporting the news of economics and finance. He stood at the junction

of economic theory and Washington politics,

and with sophistication an energy devoted

himself to the job of explaining to readers

what was going on. He found that job absorbing, and he kept working at it until his

death yesterday at the age of 76.

IN RECOGNITION OF THE MEN AND

WOMEN WHO PARTICIPATE IN

fFOLK DANCING FOR SELF-EXPRESSION AND ENTERTAINMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR,

THOSE OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY SQUARE DANCE CLUB OF

FARMINGTON, CT

HON. NANCY L. JOHNSON

OF CONNECTICUT

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Central Valley

Square Dance Club of Farmington, CT, on the

occasion of its 25th anniversary celebration.

The club’s appreciation of square dancing,

both historically and practically, are worthy of

distinction.

The Central Valley Squares sponsor dances

twice a month from September until June and

encourage all dancers, young and old, to participate in a truly noteworthy cultural experience. This wholesome activity transcends age,

race, and cultural lines and is deeply rooted in

the American experience.

Mr. Speaker, I commend the Central Valley

Squares on this accomplishment and join the

people of Connecticut in looking forward to

their continued success. I am pleased to provide a recent article from the Bristol, CT,

Press that describes the Squares activities in

greater detail.

[From the Bristol (CT) Press, Apr. 25, 1995]

DANCERS TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS

Central Valley Squares is celebrating its

25th anniversary. Twenty-five years ago

three struggling clubs: Bristol Rhythm

Squares, Southington Valley Stompers and

Farmington Valley Squares, joined to form

the present Central Valley Squares.

The club boasts 110 members with 13 of

them as charter members. Club festivities

and a special anniversary dance are planned

for May 6 at New Horizons Village, Farmington. Internationally known caller, Jim Lee

from Ontario, Canada, will call for this special event.

The officers and board members consist of

Dan and Shirley Lodovico of Bristol as president; Dick and Lucy Tedesco of Bristol as

vice president; Fran and Goldie St. Pierre of

Farmington, program coordinators; Al and

Beverly Dakers of Farmington, secretary;

Ken and Andrea DeMello of Southington,

news and corresponding secretary; and Bob

and Libby Sujecki of Bristol, treasurer.

Bill and Jessie Saxton of Farmington,

ways and means; Tony and Florence

D’Angelo of New Britain special events;

Hank and John Fitzgerald of Bristol, refreshments; Marcel and Noella Roberge of New

Britain, class coordinators; and Joanne and

Earl LaVallee of Bristol, travel.

Alan and Anne Bartleet of Bristol, publicity; Arleen Wilson of Bristol, historian; Norman and Pat Landry of Plainville, CASDAC;

and John and Mary Napier of New Britain,

advertisements.

The plus level dance club dances every first

and third Saturday of the month at New Horizons Village, Farmington. New dancers

classes begin every September with graduation in May.

Dances are $3.50 per person and are smokefree and alcohol free. Callers and cuers are

nationally and internationally known.

A CENTURY OF CARING, MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH—CASfCADES BAPTIST CHURCH 1895–1995

HON. NICK SMITH OF MICHIGAN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, on

May 7, Cascades Baptist Church will be celebrating its centennial with special services and

an open house during the afternoon. The

church, originally called Memorial Baptist, was

founded in 1895 as a mission work of First

Baptist Church in Jackson. The church

changed its name in 1959 when it moved to

its present location at Bowen and High

Streets. Now, one hundred years after its

founding, Cascades Baptist is taking a look

back over one hundred years of service within

the community.

The roots of the church really go back as far

as 1882, when a Sunday School was begun in

the Griswold Park School by a member of the

First Baptist Church. In May of 1882, it was

formally made a mission of First Baptist

Church under then Pastor L. Kirtley. It was

called the Summitville Mission first, then the

Butterfield Mission in memoray of Rev. Isaac

Butterfield of First Baptist. In 1892, a weekly

prayer meeting and Sunday afternoon preaching service began, and in 1895, the cornerstone was laid for the new building on a lot

next to the school, right on the northwest corner of Griswold and Third Street. This ceremony was the second of the day for the First
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Baptist Members, as that same afternoon,

they also laid the cornerstone for another mission work, the East Main Street Baptist

Church, now the Loomis Park Baptist Church.

The new church faced an early disaster

when their building burned in May of 1897.

The made the decision to rebuild, and also to

become an independent church the same

year. In August of that year, they organized

with a membership of 34, and laid the foundation for their new building in October. When

finished at the end of that year, the new

church had taken the name Memorial Baptist.

The church prospered in the years leading

up to World War I. During the war, when the

school required more property, the church sold

its property to the school and moved their

church and parsonage both across the road to

their present location, at the southeast corner

of Griswold and Third. The building was greatly expanded in 1934 with an addition to the

east that increased the seating capacity to 249

in the upstairs auditorium. In 1930, the church

had begun regular broadcasts on WIBM (then

1370 kHz) that continued periodically up

through 1959.

As the church continued to grow, the facilities became much too small in the 1950’s.

The church decided to build a new facility to

accommodate the needs. Accordingly, in

1954, lots were purchased at the corner of

High and Bowen, ground was broken in 1955,

and a new building completed in 1959. When

the church moved in October 1959, the name

was changed to Cascaded Baptist Church.

The building was built for a cost of $165,000,

though valued at $250,000. Volunteer work

had greatly helped reduce costs. The mortgage was burned in November 1964.

Later, in 1978 under Paster A.R. Gould, the

church underwent a major redecorating on the

inside to give it the present warm and attractive interior. Also during Rev. Gould’s ministry,

the church undertook the ministry of Jackson

Baptist Schools, which has grown greatly to a

present enrollment of over 375 students. Recently, under present paster, Rev. Berry

Jones, the church has added a gym and band

facility to their high school. Though valued at

nearly a million dollars, the building cost much

less due to volunteer labor, and the construction was paid for almost entirely in cash.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to salute the Cascades Baptist Church as it celebrates a century of caring. This honor is a testament to the

past members and those today whose personal interest, strong support, and active participation contributed to this accomplishment.

Their future is God’s work and I wish them

continued success.

HONORING 100 YEARS OF THE

WOODLAWN HEIGHTS TAXfPAYERS AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, 100 years ago,

the residents of the North Bronx established a

civic organization called the Woodlawn

Heights Taxpayers and Community Association. Their motto was ‘‘To Make This a Better

Place in Which to Live.’’ And, for 100 years

they have lived this motto.

I have had the privilege to work closely with

this association on numerous community and

neighborhood projects. They have a history of

success in making Woodlawn a better place in

which to live. These successes have led to a

better Bronx and a better New York City. From

securing a neighborhood library to preventing

a discriminatory tax assessment, from spearheading beautiful programs to keeping open

the local fire station, the Woodlawn Heights

Taxpayers and Community Association has a

record of accomplishment hard to beat.

The people of Woodlawn, of the Bronx, and

of New York City have something of which to

be very proud.

To the officers past and present and to the

members of the Woodlawn Heights Taxpayers

and Community Association—Thank you for

your efforts, your hard work, and your dedication.

COMMENDING LORD BRAINE OF

WHEATLEY FOR CHAMPIONING

fTHE CASE OF RAOUL

WALLENBERG IN THE BRITISH

HOUSE OF LORDS

HON. TOM LANTOS OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, as we recall the

50th anniversary of the Allied victory over fascism in the Second World War, we cannot forget the individual heroes of the holocaust. The

Congress of the United States, always at the

forefront of the battle for liberty and human

rights, bestowed honorary American citizenship upon Raoul Wallenberg in recognition of

his triumphant battle to save as many as

100,000 innocent lives from certain death at

the hands of the Nazis.

There are many others around the world

who have also dedicated their lives to pursuing the truth behind Wallenberg’s disappearance into the gulag and to teaching the world

about his heroic deeds. On this day, I wish to

commend The Right Honorable Lord Braine of

Wheatley for opening debate in the House of

Lords about the lost hero of the Holocaust,

Raoul Wallenberg. Throughout his 45 years in

Parliament, Lord Braine has championed the

case of human rights. I ask my colleagues to

join me in commending Lord Braine’s lifelong

efforts, and I offer an excerpt from his opening

speech to the parliament on the 50th anniversary of Wallenberg’s disappearance.

TEXT OF PROCEEDINGS FROM THE HOUSE OF

LORDS, JANUARY 17, 1995

Lord Braine of Wheatley. My Lords, the

most terrible, heartbreaking story of man’s

gross inhumanity to man occurred during

the lifetime of many of us. It was the murder

of the majority of Europe’s Jews by the

Nazis. These innocent people, young and old,

were slaughtered—not because they posed

the remotest threat to the power of the

Nazis, but simply because of their religion. It

was genocide on a massive scale.

The victims were worked to death, tortured, shot and gassed to death and their

bodies burnt in huge incinerators. All of that

took place in organised mass killings month

after month during the Second World War. If

there is a more monstrous story of sustained

evil in human history, I have not heard of it.

In that ocean of cruelty and hate in wartime Hungary, one great heroic figure stands

out—a brave young Swedish diplomat named

Raoul Wallenberg. Indeed, he became one of

the greatest heroes of all time. In the closing

months of the Second World War, he responded to the appeals of the world Jewish

community and left neutral Sweden to do

what he could to save what remained of Hungarian Jewry.

So it was that in July 1994, Wallenberg

went to what Simon Wiesenthal has referred

to as ‘‘the slaughterhouse that was Budapest.’’ By that time some five million European Jews had already been cruelly murdered. The Nazis, aware that they were now

losing the war, were obsessed with wiping

out those who remained and were within

their reach. Four months earlier, they had

invaded Hungary with the declared purpose

of exterminating that last remaining Jewish

community in Europe. Obersturmbannfuhrer

Adolf Eichmann was given the task of liquidating the Hungarian Jewish community.

It is ironic that the Hungarian Jews, who

had survived the longest in Nazi-occupied

Europe, were now the quickest to be destroyed. In a two month period, from 15th

May to 8th July 1944, 430,000 Hungarian Jews

were deported to Auschwitz in sealed cattle

trucks.

Raoul Wallenberg became the head of a

special department of the Swedish Legation

in Budapest, charged with the task of helping the Jews wherever possible. He began by

designing a Swedish protective passport to

help them to resist both the Germans and

Hungarians. Wallenberg had previously

learned that both the German and Hungarian

bureaucracies had a weakness for symbolism.

So he had his passports attractively printed

in blue and yellow (Sweden’s national colours), displaying Sweden’s coat of arms and

the appropriate authorisations. I have such a

passport, although I have not brought it with

me today. It is a work of art. Wallenberg’s

passports had no validity whatsoever under

international law, but they served their purpose, commanding the respect of those they

were designed to influence. At first, he had

permission to issue only 1,500 passports. But

he managed to persuade the Hungarian authorities to let him issue 1,000 more and, by

one means or another, managed to get the

quota raised again.

Altogether Wallenberg was to save the

lives of 100,000 Hungarian Jewish men,

women and children. At the risk of his own

life, he distributed Swedish passports by the

thousands, even following the death marches

to the Austrian border, physically pulling

people off the trains bound for Nazi concentration camps, confronting at every turn

the Nazis and the death squads. He also successfully protected refugees in scores of

houses that he bought or rented in Budapest,

marking them with the neutral flag of Sweden.

As the Soviet armies encircled Budapest in

late 1944, Wallenberg fearlessly continued his

work. On 13th January 1945, a Russian soldier saw a man standing alone outside a

building with a large Swedish flag flying

above its main entrance. It was Wallenberg.

Speaking in fluent Russian, Wallenberg told

an astonished Soviet sergeant that he was

the Swedish charge’ d’affaires for those parts

of Hungary liberated by the Red Army. He

was invited to visit the Soviet military headquarters at Debrecen, east of Budapest.

On his way out of the capital on 17th January with a Soviet escort, Wallenberg and his

chauffeur, Vilmos Langfelder, stopped at

various ‘‘Swedish Houses,’’ where he bade

farewell to his friends. He cheerfully told one

colleague, Dr. Erno Peto, that he was not

sure whether he would be the guest of the

Soviets or their prisoner, but he thought he