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disagreements, are working together in a new spirit of co-operation. 

 In today's economic climate, it begins to look as if the conflict be- 

 tween public and private interest, between present and future, might 

 be less acute than formerly. "Planning" is no longer a dirty word. 



On the other hand, the appraisal of relative values and the allo- 

 cation of uses to specific pieces of land are becoming more difficult. 

 We are still a conspicuously wasteful people, although today our prodi- 

 gality is more evident in the consumption of finished products than in 

 the harvesting of raw materials. The apparently never-ending increase 

 in population and in standards of living raises new problems and in- 

 tensifies old ones. These can be solved only by research on an ever- 

 widening scale and by prompt and widespread application of the re- 

 sults. Whether progress in the next fifty years will be more substantial 

 than in the last fifty depends on our ability to effect "the union of 

 science and conscience," as Dr. Griffith put it, in sound policies and 

 practices of land management. 



