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lions of dollars and demand a driving, expanding, planned, mixed 

 economy; there is no cheap way out. Unless this country can think 

 big in area, function, and time, worthy of our resources, power, and 

 vision, there will be neither manmade nor natural beauty for a 

 potential Great Society. 



CHARLES W. ELIOT II. The meeting of the Recreation Advisory 

 Council at the White House Conference on Natural Beauty on 

 May 25 included discussion of organization and roles of the Coun- 

 cil for coordination and stimulation of programs for natural beauty. 

 This discussion was reminiscent of several previous efforts to provide 

 effective machinery for coordination of programs which are the 

 responsibility of agencies in several departments of both the Federal 

 and State governments. It was disturbing to some of us in the 

 conference that these previous efforts and experiences do not appear 

 to have been utilized or even considered. 



The experience over ten years 1933-43 by the National 

 Resources Planning Board and its predecessor agencies in several 

 fields related to natural beauty, conservation, and recreation should 

 be helpful. Among the lessons learned from that experience were : 



1 . "He whom the gods would destroy is first made coordinator." 

 To survive, the coordinating function has to be in the Executive 

 Office of the President in a position comparable with the Bureau 

 of the Budget to emphasize the many values other than monetary. 



2. Interdepartmental committees have all too often in the past 

 degenerated into either mutual back-scratching activities or been 

 used by one or another department to see to it that nothing was 

 done which might upset a particular bureaucratic empire. To 

 avoid these tendencies, inclusion in such committees of a few public 

 members, appointed by the President, has proven advantageous 

 particularly if the public members are chosen for their special knowl- 

 edge and do not represent special interest or lobbying groups. 



CLIVE ENTWISTLE. I wish to describe the essential elements of an 

 immense new action program, capable not only of fully achieving 

 most of the major aims we have set at this conference, but many 

 others even more crucial, and of doing so within the traditions of 

 our free society and our actual economic potential. 



This program requires the construction, over the next 35 years, of 

 a number of new large cities, regional capitals each with populations 

 numbered in millions. 



