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those meetings and discussions with which we associate democracy 

 down from the days of the Greeks. The man in the street, in 

 other words, isn't going to exist any more, I suppose, and we will 

 have to have a different kind of man and, certainly, a different 

 kind of gathering place. 



I think it is very important that we think about the functions 

 we need in our cities and that then we find the wholly new forms 

 which are going to meet and fulfill them. 



That, really, Mr. Chairman, is what I had in mind. If we are 

 closing now, I would rather think we are just beginning; that 

 we could consider before we close some of these newer concepts 

 and how we can create beauty in a society which is going to be 

 increasingly dominated by great masses of people and by unique 

 technological methods and processes. 



Statements Submitted for the Record 



MRS. ERNESTA D. BALLARD. The people at this conference are 

 leaders in their communities. They were invited to come because 

 they share with President and Mrs. Johnson a deep concern for what 

 is happening across the land. Our efforts to stop the spread of ugli- 

 ness, which have been given a tremendous impetus by this wonderful 

 conference, will be picked up and carried on by thousands more 

 across the country. Some of these people, through no fault of their 

 own, are pitifully unsuited for this job. 



On Friday of last week, two officials of the General Services Ad- 

 ministration in Philadelphia came to me for help in the selection 

 of trees which they were about to order for placement in redwood 

 tubs outside some of the most imposing Federal buildings in Phila- 

 delphia. This was being done in order to comply with a directive 

 from Washington to beautify those buildings, inside and out. Any- 

 one who knows anything about plants or cities knows how soon this 

 kind of misdirected effort will become an ugly eyesore. If we are 

 to pass the responsibility for beautification on to people in positions 

 like these two men, we will have to find ways of guiding their efforts 

 into suitable channels or we will find ourselves engaged in a ludicrous 

 exercise contributing to the further defacement of our cities. 



VALLEAU G. CURTIS. This is in reply to the statement by the 

 gentleman from Great Britain who suggested seriously that we dig 

 trees out of the forests and plant them in the city. 



This statement is ecologically unsound. 



