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tural deprivation of the growing American proletariat. That is, with- 

 out further comment, the heart of our problem, which I am afraid 

 part of this conference did not wish to face, because in the entire 

 conference we are not talking about the preservation of natural 

 growth areas around the city, for example, such a concept as the milk- 

 shed. You see it is very, very rare for a city child ( and I am talking 

 as a man who has, with his wife, run a nursery school cooperatively, 

 for the last 35 years in the country) , it is very rare for even 1 percent of 

 our schoolchildren to come face to face with a cow. The only cow 

 that a couple of hundred thousand schoolchildren in Philadelphia 

 see is that which we put into the zoo three or four years ago. So 

 there is at least one cow in the metropolitan area of Philadelphia, 



This is very, very sad. 



4. The last remark is about the great teacher. I would recom- 

 mend to Mr. Keppel the reprinting of probably the most im- 

 portant document which could be presented to this great White 

 House conference, and that is one of the most important works 

 of Frank Lloyd Wright, Broad Acre City, which talks about the 

 trinity of industrial life, living, and building. That is not the 

 villas, not the Monticellos on one-half acre of land,, but archi- 

 tecturizing in the spirit of the President's message, the city from 

 coast to coast that is, the country from coast to coast. 



Miss MADAR. It is true that we need to define more specifically 

 the recommendations needed to do a more effective job of reaching 

 that portion of the city which needs it most, and to work with 

 the people who have been deprived for so long. 



There are certain segments of our society who, indeed, because 

 of discriminatory patterns have not had the opportunity to see a 

 natural area, or to live within any reasonable distance of a natural 

 area. 



I think we have now a special responsibility. We can begin to 

 reach those people who are starved for the very kind of thing that 

 we talk about, that we love, and that we want to see more of. 



Now, specifically, what can we do? I would hope that there would 

 be programs developed under the Economic Opportunity Act, 

 under the education acts, which have been passed or are in the 

 process of enactment, so that we can get in and work with people 

 in their own communities, in the inner city. Indeed, we do need 

 to have manuals which explain the economics of the situation, so 

 that the people who are in responsible positions can be helped to 



