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Great Society, we would need to be more concerned with the qual- 

 ity of our goals than the quantity of our goods." That is what 

 this conference is about. 



This conference is about how a free society, within its value 

 system, can harness the rising star of science and technology to 

 provide the higher and higher levels of economic abundance, but 

 also use that abundance consistent with basic human values to 

 satisfy both man's material needs and the needs of the human 

 spirit. 



To me, this conference is about how we build a tomorrow in 

 which we can have not only more bread, but also more roses. 

 Satisfying our material needs is a very simple thing with our ad- 

 vanced technology, but if we stand committed almost exclusively to 

 the expansion of man's material well-being and neglect his spiritual 

 well-being, then I think we will fail to achieve that "Great So- 

 ciety." 



What is our basic problem? As I see it, it is summarized in the re- 

 marks you made, Mr. Chairman. You said because a sewer col- 

 lapsed in Philadelphia you had an opportunity to build a garden 

 path and you wanted to make that garden path the way garden 

 paths should be, with flagstones and with nature. Instead of that, 

 you got blacktop. 



Why is it that we get unlimited blacktop? It is because we have 

 limited budgets. We have limited budgets because we give lip 

 service to our value system, but we are not acting true to those 

 values. 



If we are to build an America in which bread and roses can be 

 achieved in their proper balance, not in the lives of a few, but in 

 the lives of many, then we have a practical job of raising the level 

 of understanding of these intangible, human values that we as- 

 sociate with beauty. 



The problem is not that we lack the know-how. We have plenty 

 of know-how. We have plenty of resources. 



Our problem is that we have not, as a nation, accepted these 

 values and prepared to commit ourselves and our resources to their 

 achievement. 



I think we have a tremendous job of public education and I hope 

 that as a result of this conference and the great national attention that 

 will be brought to bear upon the problem, that we can mobilize 

 the trade unions and the churches, and the other great organizations. 



