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Beauty should never be equated with farm size or modernization. 

 If we are to continue the progress that has characterized American 

 agriculture, we must avoid any expressed or implied conflict be- 

 tween natural beauty and the most efficient production of food and 

 fiber. Our land must be a resource of economic strength as well 

 as of beauty. 



Dr. SEARS. I would certainly concede that the workable size of a 

 family unit has been greatly increased. My point is to relieve it 

 from unfair and burdensome competition through the very extensive 

 operations which are receiving an undue share of subsidy and are 

 often used by people who have capital from other sources, to write 

 off their tax loss. That is my point. 



HERSCHEL NEWSOM. I would like to follow up a bit on Mr. 

 Alampi's remarks about the New Jersey experience. I suggest that 

 it would be well for the staff and so-called faculty of this conference, 

 to provide some sort of an indication or report as to similar steps that 

 may have been taken in other States. 



All of us are confronting a vigorous search for new revenue within 

 our respective States that is even worse than the search for revenue 

 to finance the Federal Government, and we are going to have to have 

 it to meet these financial requirements. 



How do we do it without imposing a penalty on the fellow that 

 does beautify his section of rural America? Or perhaps from the 

 nonrural point of view we might find that the industrialist who beau- 

 tifies his own industrial site may be suffering a penalty that society 

 cannot afford to have him suffer. I am only trying to say, Mr. 

 Chairman, that somehow or other, if we might use this White House 

 conference as a means of discovering what has been done, we might 

 eliminate some research work on the part of those of us who are 

 trying to help our respective counterparts out across the various 

 States. 



JAMES WILSON. I would like to suggest that I was a little 

 shook up, actually, when I started to come here, by a comment from 

 someone who said, "Are you going to participate in another Federal 

 boondoggle?" The thought had never crossed my mind that some 

 people would be suspicious of the motives of the people gathering 

 in Washington. But they are. I would like to suggest that a Fed- 

 eral hierarchy is not necessary in this case, that we have existing gov- 

 ernmental groups at State and county levels that can accomplish this 



