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which has emerged out of this conference, how many more people 

 are getting interested in this subject and conscious of it. 



If there is a manifestation of change here, it would suggest some- 

 thing about the wisdom of these conferences. 



Again, we have suggested the establishment of an organization of 

 traveling teachers, lectureships, to disseminate methods and devices 

 toward increasing the competence of teachers in the requirements 

 of the newer specialization concerned with conservation and redevel- 

 opment of natural beauty. These programs as you are doubtless 

 aware, have been already developed, in certain aspects of science 

 through the National Science Foundation, and might well come per- 

 haps under the agency of the National Foundation for the Arts and 

 Humanities, which is being projected. 



We have suggested training and nature centers in affiliation with 

 universities where teachers and lay groups may discuss and plan pro- 

 grams for the dissemination of information concerning conservation 

 and natural beauty. And bear in mind ; although we recognize that 

 this of itself is not enough, still these special institutes, these summer 

 training programs, which have been used successfully in the other sci- 

 ences would hopefully increase the number of skilled people who 

 could then, in their turn, go out and teach others and involve them- 

 selves with local problems. 



Title IV of the National Defense Education Act may apply 

 to this proposal, as might also the Vocational Education Act of 1963. 



With regard to certain other aspects which fall under investiga- 

 tion and research, we recommend the wide establishment of the 

 community extension programs, within the various States and re- 

 gions of the country, so that the resources of universities may be 

 focused on the community as they have long been concerned with 

 rural areas. I refer particularly to the land-grant colleges, but I 

 think it is something in which the better universities, private colleges, 

 and so on, irrespective of whether they are part of a land-grant sys- 

 tem, might well wish to participate. It might well be that certain 

 activities could be taken up with the National Association of Sec- 

 ondary School Principals. 



These are only beginnings, ladies and gentlemen, but we have 

 to begin somewhere. I would merely reiterate that matter of the 

 broken ladder I spoke about earlier. And one more statement, if I 

 may, because I think literature in this sense, because it is a part of 

 beauty, has something to do with all this. Bear in mind that William 



