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tion criteria and assurances so the natural beauty and historical sites 

 of these areas be retained for present and future generations. 



PATRICK HORSBRUGH. Particular attention should be given to 

 the matter of water and transportation. These indivisible topics 

 seldom receive the extent and study they warrant. The range 

 of relevance varies from the inheritance of circumstances past to 

 inventions of the immediate future. 



The problem divides in two distinct parts : ( 1 ) The consequences 

 arising from outmoded services and the reuse opportunities of har- 

 borage and railroad acreages. (2) The demands to be expected 

 from the introduction of new vehicles and systems of movement 

 and storage, such as hovercraft, dracones and vertical flight. 



Each of these systems will inevitably make use of water frontage, 

 both shallow and deep, and will invade areas previously believed 

 to be inaccessible. It is essential that the physical and economic 

 pressure which these new vehicles portend should be explored in 

 respect to all conditions of water frontage around the coasts, along 

 the major rivers and around the major lakes. This is essentially a 

 matter of imaginative coordination of existing data from many 

 sources. The initiative should still rest with the Department of the 

 Interior. 



DONALD W. INSALL. Why do we waste our waterways? In Lon- 

 don, England, our streets are so crammed with vehicles that if they 

 had flat tops, you could walk along them. Yet Father Thames is 

 empty except for the occasional police boat. Why? 



Do you remember the joy of looking at water ( clean water ) of walk- 

 ing by it and of traveling on it? Can we not use this opportunity? 

 Water is level and beautiful and pedestrians like level and beau- 

 tiful walks. Why not more waterside walkways? Waterways are 

 continuous and have few traffic signals, few obstacles. Why not 

 more water buses? 



The riverside strand and river passenger travel are the most ne- 

 glected joy of all our cities both in Britain and in the United States. 



JOHN P. MOSER. While stream pollution is a serious problem, it 

 is encouraging to note that in the case of one industry, voluntary 

 corrective action is reaching a successful outcome. After June 30, 

 no more "hard" detergents will be manufactured for United States 

 consumption. Already most of the output of detergent plants is of 



