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ley, say within a hundred-mile radius of New York City. This would, 

 of course, extend into Connecticut and parts of Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, and New York. We have many like this throughout the 

 whole United States that have to be worked on and these institutes 

 could be put to work. There is a precedent, the Palisades Parks 

 Commission, in which two States have cooperated in such a project. 

 Institutes likes this could be established all over the United States to 

 further explore President Johnson's concept of creative conservation. 



Mr. GODDARD. I think there is one started now. 



Hon. LUCILLE PINKERTON. First, would you please consider some 

 kind of model legislation that would help us establish on the State 

 level and to assist our municipalities and local governments? I think 

 this should come as a suggestion from this panel so that I can better 

 represent my people. 



A. K. MORGAN. I would like to suggest to the gentleman from 

 the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference that the island he spoke 

 of is being seriously considered by this Commission as an addition to 

 Bear Mountain. Will he please keep hands off. 



GLESTER HINDS. As I see it, to enhance the beauty the govern- 

 ment should enact legislation to remove ugliness. The areas that 

 have more than their share of ugliness shall be allocated funds to 

 bring them up to the standard of beauty which is expected of that 

 particular area. However, that is not the case. There seems to be a 

 kind of inertia that prevents governments from moving more rapidly 

 to correct these conditions. 



Therefore frustration sets in and ugliness becomes a way of life. 

 The government's poverty program is moving in the right direction. 

 It should be tailored not to stigmatize any citizen because he or she 

 is poor, but should become a motivating factor to improve the stand- 

 ard of living of our citizens and thereby stimulate his interest to work 

 in the physical beautification of his neighborhood. This investment 

 by government will be repaid by decreased costs in the operation of 

 many institutions. Rebuild rundown existing neighborhoods 

 through construction of new buildings, rehabilitate and conserve old 

 buildings, utilize the vest pocket approach to uprooting on a block 

 these are the things I am talking about. 



In other words, in blocks where they have good houses and there 

 are a few decayed ones, the bad should be uprooted and the good 



