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to focus effectively on a composite program which would produce 

 results. 



What you have to do from the management side is to define your 

 great goals, then break them down into doable pieces. You have 

 to break them down into doable pieces and then you examine the 

 existing apparatus of public and private activity to see to what extent 

 these various pieces are being carried forward and to what extent 

 they are in each other's way, and so forth. 



Now, you follow these two steps, breaking the goals down into 

 doable pieces and then examining the existing mechanisms of gov- 

 ernment and private enterprise and private orientation to see what is 

 being accomplished. Mr. Edman just talked to us about an extraor- 

 dinarily effective program which, be it noted, was started four 

 years ago step by step, taking advantage of Federal aid and Federal 

 help, and of local action and local enthusiasm. The leaders of the 

 legislature banded themselves together with the citizens to go to the 

 public with a program which, they said, in a very conservative State, 

 has produced the most comprehensive pattern of State, regional, 

 county, and local planning that we have anywhere in the United 

 States. This is the answer of rational men dealing with a great 

 problem. 



And, as he indicated, it is very difficult at the present time for the 

 States to work with the Federal Government on this program be- 

 cause at so many points the Federal activities are set up on a different 

 pattern than are State activities. 



Now, it is inevitable, as the Senator said, that the structure of gov- 

 ernmental operations within the States will differ from State to State. 

 Our county structures are different. Our habits are different. Our 

 conservation practices differ in the different States. Our natural re- 

 sources, our natural duties are different. So that the whole thing 

 is and should be quite varied. 



The second point that the Senator makes in approaching this 

 question of natural beauty and the realization of its values for the 

 American people is that we are concerned with two things. One is 

 the activities that affect our resources and make it possible for us 

 to utilize our natural beauties, developing a quality of administration, 

 a quality of planning, which elevates and inspires and creates a new 

 perspective. And to this I would add one more, if I may, and 

 that is it grows from this idea when I ask you where is natural 

 beauty, you are going to tell me it is out yonder. I tell you it 



