404 CONFERENCE ON NATURAL BEAUTY 



This panel must wrestle with the whole spectrum of what we mean 

 by beauty, but in a microcosm. This has an advantage, as well as a 

 disadvantage. It meant we had to get down to brass tacks. In 

 principle, everyone is agreed upon beauty and how a great society 

 has to reflect its achievements and its goals and its physical setting. 

 When it comes to issues of who is to bear the cost or how to do it, we 

 begin to see the need for give and take and for the cooperative action 

 necessary if this problem is to be eliminated. 



Some people have said that the untidiness reflected by the auto- 

 mobile, the abandoned hulk, and the automobile graveyard is part 

 of the growth of the industry in its early cycle. The President has 

 told us there is now a more mature insistence on having a higher 

 standard of environmental maintenance and has asked us to deal 

 specifically with the disfigurement and the eyesore of the nonoper- 

 ative and the abandoned automobile and the junkyard. I think I 

 can speak for the panel in saying that here there was complete agree- 

 ment. We would like abandoned cars out of sight. This left us 

 with some "minor" decisions. Who will do the job? And who will 

 pay for it? 



I think I am speaking for the panel here, that we would have an 

 ideal solution to the problem if we could recycle the whole process, 

 from automobile manufacturer to its use, to its obsolescence to the 

 wrecker, to the scrap processor, to the steel mill, and then to the 

 automobile, again, obtaining a survival of the new car like a phoenix. 

 We would avoid government regulation and government subsidy, 

 if we somehow could get the market operation working, and we 

 would get rid of the problem of the abandoned cars in city streets and 

 of the graveyards and inventories. There was a great deal of inter- 

 est in the possibility for rather quick action here which would elim- 

 inate the problem. 



I think that the panel we have here is conversant with this eco- 

 nomic cycling problem. It will shortly illuminate you on that, 

 and, on what seems to be a need for Federal action in order to expe- 

 dite the market process, on the need for State and local action, in 

 terms of a regulation and subsidy. 



Mr. MARLEY. I agree with you that we don't particularly like 

 the title of this panel, because we like the word "scrap" rather 

 than "junk." Perhaps at the conclusion of this session all of you 

 who are here will realize the difference between junk and scrap. 

 The junk dealer is the man with a little truck it used to be a 



