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no doubt that the poverty program should be tied some way into this 

 program on natural beauty. 



You can find this in vast areas in northeast Oklahoma, where you 

 drive for hours through an area of rural poverty, where there can 

 be no natural beauty. 



It is true in the vast Imperial Valley, where they harvest vege- 

 table crops with sharecroppers and have no privies for them in the 

 field or even in their living quarters. 



I think Mr. McHarg was like a fine wind blowing through this 

 whole conference. It is absolutely true that we must educate people 

 into some understanding of their basic nature. 



I have had the pleasure of talking in a great many schools and 

 colleges throughout America, and it shocks me that so far ecology 

 is only taught to those who go into the advanced fields of natural 

 science. We teach no ecology in our high schools, and none in our 

 primary and secondary schools. That is where ecology teaching 

 should start. 



I want to finish this up with one story about the Brownies. I 

 live on a farm and a great many people come to it. One day 

 two bus loads of Brownies came and their leader said, "Will you 

 talk to them on littering, Mr. Hall?" I talked to them for about 

 10 minutes and the buses pulled away from the farm, and my wife 

 and I spent an hour picking up after them. 



A DELEGATE. I have a question for Mr. Grafts. Under Article 

 319, would it be possible to use a county area for aid on the water 

 resources instead of waiting maybe 2 5/2 or 3 years to develop a state- 

 wide program? 



I think it could act as a pilot operation where certain counties 

 might not have a direct relation to the State as a whole, and where it 

 would not disrupt a statewide program. 



Mr. GRAFTS. Are you talking about 319 in the housing program? 



A DELEGATE. No, I am talking about the State aid program for 

 development of the program we are talking about at this conference. 



Mr. GRAFTS. Under the Land and Water Conservation Fund 

 Act, moneys may not be made available directly to the county 

 by the Federal Government. 



The statute is very specific in this and requires the submission of a 

 statewide plan, but it also, as you well know, provides that through 

 the States, moneys may go through the counties and local govern- 



