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Speaking of the " Rejoicings " on the occasion of the twenty-fifth 

 Jubilee of King George V, lie said, " Hundreds of thousands of 

 people merry-making in the streets and parks all night, utterly 

 beyond the control of any police; yet no disorder in the streets, 

 not a flower-bed in Hyde Park trampled. There is something 

 new here in our social development, a ground for hope which we 

 had not realized." 



The trampling of flower-beds — the picking of flowers, is one 

 of our minor items of vandalism, but it would certainly be some- 

 thing new in our social development if the .American public would 

 at all times, without the constant supervision of police and guards, 

 show as much interest and care in preserving the beauty of our 

 parks and gardens as the authorities do in creating this beauty. 

 We must not, however, expect too much of the public. T have, 

 in a preceding report, called attention to Wordsworth's distinction 

 between the public and the people. People most certainly do enjoy 

 the beauties of our grounds. Poems are written and published 

 about them by local poets, artists come here daily to sketch and 

 paint, photographers haunt the place, people write us letters of 

 appreciation, the newspapers call attention to it, and there is daily 

 evidence that people by the thousand thoroughly appreciate and 

 enjoy the beauty of the plantations. 



Rut the public that visits our parks and gardens is a cross-section 

 of the human race. It is the great burden and challenge of edu- 

 cation and eugenics to uplift the human race, aesthetically, and 

 civically, as well as intellectually. It is a sisyphean task, never to 

 be completed but only roughly approximated, and public parks and 

 gardens must always be administered accordingly. If, however, 

 one visits the Garden on a Monday morning after a week-end of 

 heavy attendance he will, while noticing painful evidences of public 

 thoughtlessness and misuse, lie surprised that the — shall we say, 

 "wear and tear " have not been greater. 



Attendants. — The great increase in visitors makes it important 

 to urge again the need of an attendant at each entrance gate 

 properly to service the public, to exclude undesirable persons and 

 things, to meet emergencies that always arise where large numbers 

 of individuals are involved, and to discharge various duties, such 

 as the vending of guide books, post cards and other items, and the 



