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gram is, conservation of recreational facilities or whatever is in addi- 

 tion to any good that might redound to the community. We are 

 interested in the good that redounds to the particular youngster in the 

 creation of work habits. Many of these boys do not know how to 

 work. We see the work program as a kind of therapy and kind of 

 discipline as well as something that might produce a particular 

 result. 



LAWRENCE G. ELLERY. I believe that most of us attending this 

 wonderful conference, the first of its kind ever held in the United 

 States, have a tremendous obligation to take back with us this in- 

 formation as missionaries. We have a hard job to sell. Those of us 

 who are here are interested and dedicated to this purpose. 



Our biggest selling problem is going back home and selling our 

 regional, local, county, and State governments who are already 

 harassed with their multitudinous problems of meeting budgets, 

 increased taxes, and wiser spending. With a little wiser spending 

 we would have ample money to handle the program projected here 

 now. 



We are losing ground every day. We are losing hundreds of thou- 

 sands of acres that are being needlessly destroyed for the lack of intel- 

 ligent planning. One point is to encourage our developers who are 

 only interested in dollars and cents to use the services of trained 

 people in our profession who have an appreciation of nature and 

 how long it takes sometimes 100 years to grow a tree that can 

 be destroyed in a few minutes by a bulldozer. 



We cannot rely on the Federal Government for all of this. It 

 has to be done through a local citizenry in the towns, States, and 

 cities. Through no other effort can this be achieved. 



A DELEGATE. This isn't meeting the issue. The truth of the mat- 

 ter is that almost everybody in this room and in the other sessions 

 has been doing this kind of selling job. I think we must continue 

 our effort at the local scene, but the impact on the cities and urban 

 regions of this country comes even now through Federal action. Let 

 us face up to this as a reality. 



I would like to suggest that I think there has been something of 

 an undertone that everything that exists today is bad. 



I am grateful to Mr. Ellery who suggests that there are things 

 which are good and which must be saved. 



The great issue before us is not so much where to build, but where 



