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see the wisdom of taking effective action to protect our natural 

 resources. 



We have to find a medium of communication between, for in- 

 stance, the UAW and the garden clubs in this primary area where 

 we share common concerns. We have to find better working re- 

 lationships with the park and the recreational people who are in our 

 urban areas, who deal with nonwork and nonschool programs. We 

 keep talking about the increased leisure yet we have known for many 

 years that we have not provided purposeful activity for our teenagers 

 and for our young people who have left school. Their help can be 

 enlisted in our search for beauty. 



I think we ought to use the two major political forces in our so- 

 ciety to do an educational job. An outstanding citizen of Michigan 

 to the contrary, I believe there is a great deal of citizen involvement 

 in our political parties, and these two organizations can help citizens 

 to understand the economics of the problem and help effectuate bet- 

 ter coordination among local agencies and State agencies, so that 

 boards of education, who rob from park and recreation departments 

 and nature study areas to build schools, will work together to 

 prevent exploitation of our resources and to beautify our cities and 

 countryside. 



Mrs. J. M. P. WRIGHT. We have had remarkable success with our 

 children in gaining a response to the beauty of the town and the 

 architecture, but what worries us is that, when these children grow 

 up and when their children grow up, there will be nothing left for 

 anyone to appreciate, because of the very things that your last panelist 

 mentioned. We have no means of educating the financial structure of 

 our community to the economic benefits of beauty. There is a wall 

 between us. Our communications do not work. We do not have the 

 techniques nor the words to make them understand what we are 

 trying to do. And this is where we need help the most. 



It seems to us that it can start on a political basis. We can 

 see the connection between political power and land development 

 and land investment, and we have to find some means of showing 

 these people who have our cities in their control that the city will 

 not be economically bereft if a little beauty is maintained for future 

 generations. 



I would like to expand on these remarks and put them in the 

 record. 



