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This section provided strong protection against invasion of parks thru the 
intercession of the new Secretary of Transportation. It has permitted several 
conservation organizations to enter into legal proceedings to protect parks 
where proposed routes would invade parks or wildlife refuges. 
2. It would provide for a whole series of highways through the federal 
city, Washington, (many of them invading precious park land) in what 
has been rightly called the most beautiful large city in the nation. 
3. It would place severe curbs on federal control over junkyards, sign- 
boards in industrial and commercial areas. 
The bill has been denounced by the American Institute of Architects. 
The AIA has asked that the present Trust Fund be transformed into a new 
National Transportation Fund. The AIA seeks the development of other 
means of high-speed transportation. Sen. Harrison Williams of New Jersey 
has called for an end to a reliance on the automobile and jet airplanes as 
the major means of transportation in this country. The automobile is re- 
sponsible for vast amounts of air pollution, and the jet plane is responsible 
for the increasing noise pollution in the country. Both of these are becoming 
major domestic problems with great havoc to the natural environment and 
to the human population. 
The Chicago American, in an editorial July 16, called passage of 
HR 17134 a “Sellout of Highways.” The bill slashes by 90 per cent the 
administration’s fund request for beautifying the nation’s highways. This 
means that fewer wayside parks and picnic areas could be built. The 
American called the bill “incredible” as it is indeed. 
For weeks now the communications industry has been telling us about 
Resurrection City in Washington and the poor people’s march on the nation’s 
capitol. 
Some of the poor traveled to the federal city on mule trains. 
It appears to some observers of the national scene that the rich and 
the powerful are there all the time, but they arrive on jet planes, with 
their credit cards provided by large firms and lobby groups. The lobbyists 
of the nation have been called the “fourth arm” of the government. Their 
effect on congressmen through contributions to campaign expenses is 
enormous. 
It is the passage of such special legislation as HR 17134—-which triumphs 
over the enormous needs of the population for green spaces, for quiet wil- 
derness areas, and for small wayside parks—which adds to the national and 
increasing frustration of the nation. There is a growing feeling that the 
people have lost control of their government ... that Congress and other 
legislative bodies are a generation behind the huge domestic needs of the 
people ... that our government framework has become creaky indeed, if 
only the rich and the powerful can effect needed changes. It has become 
academic and meaningless today to argue the merits of one party over 
the other. 
The editorial in the Chicago American concluded: “We hope every 
citizen with an interest in saving his country’s remaining beauties will write 
his senators and congressmen ... The highway interests and their flunkeys 
in the House must not be given license to remodel the country as they like.” 
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NOTES FROM THE NEST: The re- | Senate committee on appropria- 
tiring 90- year- old Senator Carl tions, recommended that the Senate 
Hayden, Ariz., chairman of the concur with the House of Repre- 
