Viewing page 26 of 115

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

8

It has created for this country a new and finer definition of public works. It is, I believe, a step up in our civilization, a wider conception of the services the State can and should render to its people, to give them happiness and beauty along with plumbing and police.
If we can, through this project, develop the love and the wish for beauty, an intolerance for the ugliness in our lives and our surroundings, a demand for slum clearance, a hatred of the utter drabness of the average city and village in this country, especially its outskirts, we may be building better than we know, not only spiritually, but materially. It may form the stimulus and create a demand for an America beautiful, and such a demand is what everyone is seeking to lift us out of depression. I hope you will all become crusaders for our project. I thank you.
36087-9760
◯