518 CONFERENCE ON NATURAL BEAUTY 



Mrs. BELLE SIMPSON. I am spending the late years of my life 

 in helping to teach children to appreciate beauty, and I feel that 

 there is no such thing as a bad child. I feel that any child who 

 is taught to love nature and to come out into the open to see the 

 birds and the bees, and the fish, and the other beauties of nature, 

 I think once they are taught to admire these things, they cannot be 

 bad. 



I love children, I have six, seven grandchildren of my own. And 

 have taken some of the most incorrigible children, at least the com- 

 munity in our small place considers them incorrigible children, I 

 have taken them out to my country place, and I never saw finer 

 children in my life. 



With everyone of these children, the great fault was that they did 

 not have the love and attention at home. Parents were too busy. 

 The mothers were either working or careless. Once these children 

 have a little love and affection, attention, they cannot go wrong. 

 And I have great success with all of these children. 



I do think that our teachers are not receiving the salaries that 

 they should have. 



Mr. BRANDWEIN. I would like Carl Buchheister to add to Mrs. 

 Simpson's comments, or to expand them or to state his views because 

 he has long worked in the area to which Mrs. Simpson has spoken. 

 Possibly Mrs. Saunders would like to say something as well. 



Mrs. SAUNDERS. I feel very strongly, and this is for the grassroots 

 level, that courses right in the early years of school would be of ut- 

 most importance. This goes along with what the speaker has said. 



People will say there isn't time for more courses. Teachers already 

 have to teach so much. How can they have classes in conservation? 

 But I feel there should be a crash program of conservation perhaps 

 in the fifth grade, somewhere on that level. 



Mr. BUCHHEISTER. We have heard this morning that the vast 

 majority of the children of the United States live in urban areas, 

 and we are very much concerned, because we here at this conference 

 are concerned with teaching the children to have a feeling for natural 

 beauty. 



Well, it is axiomatic, I am sure, that everybody will agree that it 

 is latent in every child that is born, if it is a normal child, to have an 

 appreciation of natural beauty. But all too often and in almost all 

 the cases of children in our country, at least in cases of vast number 



