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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This evening's Sam want to. Mark the start the. Ninth year salute the season's. Efforts to restore to write great city. A great and major of the natural beauty which it has which it was originally and with a long long time ago no trying to get it back in the same shape that it was our program this evening is rather special. And as you will very shortly discover very shortly quite unique however here to tell you about it in his own way is a master of ceremonies a distinguished member of the stage. Celebrated Broadway Television and Radio personality and his name is SR Carlos. Known to most of us as chill to chill chill bore is you. Know I say. Thank you very much Ambassador but there are some and go there in. Mayor Wagner distinguished guests based on just. A moment ago Ambassador but the son told you that we have a rather unique brought out plan for your entertainment this evening and indeed we do know a Paul vs the. Wind here in the heart of New York at the peak of Mexican even. Well I think we can get this answer from the IF first off of Mexico in New York City. Our beloved consul general on honorable they will hand you up a skater. Thank you. Thank you very much. Their guns are with us last night we were shivering but somehow so the magic of flannel we got good weather in New York at the peak of Mexican even mean the answer is simple my native land of Mexico wishes to turn the tables on your good neighbor and not a time when traditionally New York City has given itself a show to celebrate progress of its program to make New York City Mark beautiful Mixi go once to take the OK show and to salute you right here in New York for the truly extraordinary job you have done. New York has been my home for a few years and I have watched with all. Under the leadership of me of Wagner in. Your salute to seasons a program that has waged its battle to create in these vast canyons of steel and concrete that kind of green oasis of natural beauty with which mix is so richly and down. Which we make sickens tend to take for granted you have really accomplished miracles in the page space of only eight short years. Mixi close the Mayor Wagner and I personally thank you in my own behalf I name the name of another Spanish speaking residents of the city we all feel so much more at home in a city that is green with trees flowers and shrubbery Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. Now you know why you will be all Mexicans Id love with this marvelous man incidentally made a Wagner. By speaking now I am sure I speak for all the Spanish speaking. States in southern New York and he does have a hope that whatever the administration follows the present one will carry on and expand the city's beautification program. Which you have sold generally started Thank you very much in the name of all the Spanish speaking seats in all York not only for you beautification program or for the way that you have always treated us help us I'm be simply a friend thank you very much and Mayor welcome thank Now it's my pleasure again to introduce his wonderful consul general of Mexico in New York. Which I will I will have something to say to you. The owner of old Piscator. Thank you Mayor Wagner image Wagnerian. The city of New York the entire area. Is proud and. Because of the amalgamation of. So many races in this great and unique metropolis of the world on. One Congar stands out. The mayor and his beautiful wife. Claim Irish ancestry so therefore it's to green that stands out. In Mexico. In Central America in South America and there are many that in America in this audience. The good lawyer. Showered our countries with green we want to take these occasions Mayor Wagner to pay tribute to you with some something as symbolic a scanner green. We can be for us. A plant that West brought from tropical makes you go on the state of Guerrero. This plant is. Given to up we love it Mayor. As a token of appreciation and admiration for the many people many wonderful years of its administration the plant so we hope will stand in the reception room and it will be a reminder to your successors. For which it stands green stands for hope Mayor Wagner me I present this plan to you. Thank. God. And some General Grant said. Fine country men are almost everywhere surrounded in their own country by less topical beauty. They know what natural beauty is we are doubly gratified and appreciative of the significance of your salute to why civic beautification program. D.D.R. as it is a truly meaningful salute and on behalf of all New Yorkers I ask you Mr Consul General to convey I want us thanks to your government and to your fellow countrymen why this evening's magnificent that attainment and also for this very gracious gift with which will I'm sure always be treasured by those in the reception room at City Hall who will follow me in the years to come again many many thanks. In that this country and in most parts of the WERE own wherever pans are worn. They are shared by the brine in Mexico. It is a symbol of sharing. When the wife not only words depends on the family but also. They had the big somebody. We have here for Mrs Welner is somebody you know will you step. Right up Mr Wagner. Thanks and passed up Patterson. Says Mary Lasker. And Rosen very often unfortunately could not be with us tonight we have a message from her and friends here. It isn't every day that the mayor of New York has flowers thrown at him and he that literally or figuratively and when I look with pride that. Many of the developments of the past twelve years. There are a few from which I've derived so much personal satisfaction as from my salute to the season's program. And the great but trop less like ours with some many differences and diversifications of interests those programs and projects which are important to one group are frequently disparaged by another. Unanimity on any issue is a red jewel which we official gem collectors are constantly searching. And rarely are we able to find it. Of this salute to season's program I believe it can truly be said that publican DOS Mint has been unanimous. From the very outset there has been only constant pressure for more trees more flowers and more greenery. The extent of our program has been limited only by budgetary considerations however from the very outset private support for City beautification has been highly gratifying it has come from everywhere from individuals like Mary Lasker and and the Rosenberg cough and Judge Della caught Doug Hurley and a host of others from business concerns from my great museums I giant retail establishment. The entertainment industry labor organizations business associations religious civic and philanthropic institutions. And most important of all it has come from you the citizens of New York City. Small school children have gone from house to house collecting pennies nickels and quarters to raise money for a tree on one of their blocks. I have no concern about the future of this program. In the words have President Johnson salute two seasons will establish a green legacy for tomorrow your whole hearted support for what we have been trying to do through this program guarantees that it will endure. As a private citizen who loves New York City I too will continue my efforts in behalf of this great program in fact I have some very concrete proposals which I directed at expanding the present program one I believe the time has come when our city must establish and enforce a strict design code for open air pocking and used car lots making it mandatory that they be properly and attractively screened through some form of landscaping decorative fencing too with the assistance of the federal government I hope that in the very busy near future the city might be able to obtain nearby land areas on which to operate its own nurseries staffed by young men trained in the and the poverty program and supervised by our own experts. I providing such an additional source of plant materials and trained personnel capable of carrying out the actual planting work. We will not only be training and employing hundreds of our young people but also hastening the progress of city beautification at a reduced expense and third I am going to suggest a completely new type of program to help stimulate neighborhood and block beautification groups by sharing some of the cost of the tree plantings with these groups through the creation of a so called Tree bank the city would put up a sum of seed money into this bank and the federal government private business foundations and private individuals would add to the deposits neighborhood groups could then draw from this tree bank an amount equal to whatever funds they themselves raised for planting trees provided that they can raise sufficient monies for at least five three years no one group could draw more than five thousand dollars in any one year. These are just three of the things I would like to see done in New York and now I would like to use this occasion to thank publicly the people who have contributed greatly to the success of our salute to season's program and at the top of the list of causes I do have friend Mary last standing right here thank you and Anna Rosenberg Hofmann who unfortunately was called away today but these two really initiated and inspired this program and have helped guide and direct it and in thanking them I hope I hope I can be considered to be thanking all who have worked. To make this already a program an all time success the volunteers and the officials and employees of the various city departments to each and every one of them from the top to the bottom of the list I don't want to name one without naming all and that would take some time but I would also like to say a particular word of thanks to the members of the Communications Media Lab helped make a salute to the seasons the success it was you have all served your city well. And now it has as been our custom on these occasions in the past I would like to acknowledge with a special citation one exceptional a generous gift from two distinguished New Yorkers Ican tribute to salute this season's help to make possible our salute to Mrs Lyndon B. Johnson earlier this year and lo Mr and Mrs I think the Lochie please come to the platform thank. You but I didn't present this on a citation to Mr and Mrs I think the Luci in recognition of their generous contribution to the spring salute ceremony upon the occasion of Mrs Lyndon B. Johnson is visit to our city in salute to Seasons program and I'm delighted to give this to you with a grateful appreciation I know of all of. You. Thank you. Thank you. And then play. Nosing let me assure you that I will always in what ever capacity I occupy. Have a green thumb to lend to the programs to make New York a more beautiful city and thank you again Mr Consul General for this delightful evening in honor of a wonderful program thank you. Thank this to me you have been so very generous in thanking as thanking the blood case thanking the people who have contributed to salute the seasons I feel however and I know I don't only speak for myself but for the million subs citizens of New York the visitors that come here that it is you who should be thinking it was your devotion it was your inspiration that is making you a clean and not beautiful city so may I say to you that I not only give my own personal pledge but I'm sure I'm speaking for Mrs Alaska for Mrs Hofmann for Ambassador Patterson and for the countless citizens have contributed that we were able to carry forward this wonderful project which would not have been possible without Thank you again thank you. And I remember a green of New York is up to you I'm now where you are thank you all are green and the trees let's take this very seriously and make New York really beautiful i'm we wish to thank you the audience ladies and gentlemen for all the trees that we know all. You are going to plant Good night ladies and gentlemen on as guests and I hope to see your brain around it thank you very much. And the book the. With the. Thanks it was the a. The the. The old.