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It would be completely gratuitous to accord to today's speakers the kind of biographical or addenda flying introduction that is customary. And to me like a ton of flying. Almost a Pope Paul or our I don't mean Johnson or the Beatles shall we say. Robert Moses. I'll be his preterist this. Is one of the great planners designers and builders of all recorded history of man we invite him here because. We are trying to do in a small and limited way. What he has done through all his life in the grandest of grand manners making democratic government work for the better condition of man. Well not more I am going to the real honor to present to you. One of the first citizens of the world Robert Moses. Learned friends of. Fire of the men been the recipient of disguise blessings from kindly friends and learned to accept them with a mixture of gratitude and misgiving. The most instances they look a little like invitations to one diplomatic got from says a controversy in trouble. They are I suppose inescapable and should be approached in the spirit of Robert Browning who admonish young men like me to greet the on scene with a cheer. I am by nature and experience skeptical of the invitations which seem to mistake me for somebody else. Groucho Marx they say once received an impressive letter on embossed stationery asking if he was available to lecture on Das Kapital on economic determinism and dialectical materialism. There is no record of Groucho's reply which should be in the Standard Book of Quotations. I assume that in this instance you identified me with the World's Fair which is logical enough. How mature should religiously of all wind all but addicted dress to professionals. For the price sees to it that nothing is really off the rack and the greater master of ceremonies and with the Apple biology polisher what a popular commentator is at best a talented graduate from sports reporting with the lingo redolent of the ring the track in the dressing room we look to sports to enliven rich and brighten our otherwise conventional Anglo-Saxon at worst the luncheon done are as a colossal bore. I'll observe with enormous interest the progress of the breakfast hundreds from about Addicted to pontifical assertion condescension for knives ing and distillation of vinegar nominations well balanced minds are not terribly impressed. By the other instances these critical pundits have placed in a delicate precarious position of authority and responsibility. Which god forbid would be reduced overnight to the pope which they missed you. I have traced this fascination the writings of such philosophers through the years they remind me of garter snakes almost hidden by protective coloring send us free wending their way through the grass and cleverly avoiding commitments and conclusions you hear a man on the street registers the reaction of the masses and the manner of the fireside to appear nice is the night's wisdom I go for the in between man on the steps as he returns home for supper on his way to bedroom slippers pressing down on the first Scotch. It is famous for me to talk briefly about the failure. At least at home I know my way about. I have no wisdom to instill no formula for winnowing that week from a child that is NOT ASK up a fad of force local people to come again and again to the spectacle. The great hinterland in even foreign countries of responded notably all mail on comments prove it. And Susie asked to can comb humans from outside of an almost embarrassing we've used every device of communication to tell Metropolis what it is in considerable measure missing we have employed every legitimate device which would irresistably and magnetically drawn the crowds daily to the unit stair and its satellites that amusing Welsh braggart Glendower said he could call spirits from the vasty deep in the Hotspur aspart relay come the answer we believe is yes give us the rest of the summer an Indian summer on the word of mouth which is more persuasive than any other form of communication. If so far there has been delay in reaching some larger elements in the city and suburbs or in inducing them to do something more than to rush through the fair in a single day the last is New York some come out I believe just may be charged the failure of the family an achievement to compel people to give heed to an opportunity for an education which will probably never occur again in their life lifetime. I think they are coming more and more of them the thoughtful people will want something more than a midway to be sure we've had our disappointments there are conspicuous gaps in the fan. Foreign nations like Britain and Canada were not exhibit because we did not belong to the so called The World international expositions which as you know we could only joined by treaty initiated by the president requiring the concurrence of the Senate if we lacked the record of recent economic achievements of the British Commonwealth we at least have Winston Churchill who are the English Channel Save the King. Apart from reliance on the so called Bureau of international expositions I've been told by sharpshooters that our method of inducing foreign nations to participate in the Fed was not sufficient makes you an ingenious There are after all only a few ways of pursuing such an object in the first relies solely on an official invitation from the State Department to the appropriate foreign offices manifestly a non reasonable interpretation of diplomatic and fair responsibilities second is to find avenues to top officials by way of obscure but highly influential individuals a devious and dubious course at best. The third is to depend on our own staff and to supplement their efforts by sending abroad lay committees of Americans distinguished in the office professional sciences and business governability who heads our international division follow this procedure which if tedious and expensive are still a right one whether or not it has always been successful it surely requires no apologies and govern a place conduct at this very difficult phase of their organization has commanded the very highest respect that is what we want all the much respect rather than immediate popularity. We frankly saw the communists and they backed down perhaps because they could not stand the competition. We cannot bring to the fair all of the new African Republics. But enough so all of the small boy or girl can grasp the significance of immense distances polyglot populations emerging republics barbaric civil wars and appalling differences in resources. When in Asia abandon this magnificent evasion and pull out of the failed having left Washington of the United Nations or one hundred million people on an island stretching farther than from New York to San Francisco are left with no avenue open to return. These are the far off places with strange sounding names no longer so glamorous where all the lawyers may have to fight and in deserts and tropical jungles our youngsters should learn as much as possible about them and wham are dramatically. Where no provision marking the progress of organized labor. An omission hard to comprehend surely labor can command the office to record its triumphs here is a chance for the working man to record another pilgrim's progress over the long hard road to the Delectable Mountains we have the apathy assist of the machine but not the personification of the beneficiaries of the industrial revolution. Professional Education matters the school system as such is also under represented at the fan if only some foundation less committed to pouring kerosene into obscure or around Holmes had persuaded Dr Conant to put on an imaginative exhibit of his findings. We were never able to reach those who might have the light of the cost of a time of murky obscurity on extraordinary stress and strain educators are supposed to be most illiterate imaginative and skilled and picturesque metaphor analogy similar powerful and allegory Instead they seem bogged down in the ingenious mechanics and gadgets of classroom teaching the next day I may do but. Even though incomprehensible is the absence of an adequate provision marking the march of the law from the founding fathers to the revolutionary rulings of today the only exhibit covering the background history and future of the law in this country is a small collection of memorabilia in the New York State of Indian your profession if wine if I may say so. Has been some of lacking in significant autistic symbols. That's facades bar at least and faces a stone where the estranged are gone as pompous inscriptions and fierce debating law givers and Roman tunics the blind lady justice weighing the scales to make the transaction look like a bargain the psychologist hour and. A soup stone and only a carrot that shows a touch of the blazing wrath of our own SCO an occasional deus ex machina I would live in not many a courthouse. Say I might of been a starting point. Of color and if the law cannot project his image to you it can strike lingo without ingenious showmanship and colorful exposition all human drama is hidden in the interest to see civil law the common run of people get tired of the mystique of pension bought however closed in black night gowns cutaways and ponderous dignity. They want to know more about the inner life of our secular Trinity well over three branches can work together or continue to function and more or less sound and whether pro factory ones the world's fair offer the fine form gallery said I'm for our present Taishan of the march along. Somehow the profession must it. Perhaps no exhibit of the march of our Constitution could fully dramatize the dynamos of our time the three branch candlestick of government was a great invention of the founding fathers it still gives light and truth. But it is threatened by those who would force them to use the flames in their one single luminary. Witness the lonesome business of graduating from shared legislative accommodation to last them executive responsibility. On the recent tendency of high courts to enter in the case of reapportionment in the one man one vote on what the late Justice Frankfurter name the thicket of political administration said it indeed is a dog jumbled jungle from which those close in judicial gowns must be rescued on cup and went out with machetes and Iler of and they never were quite the same afterwards. Perhaps the searchlight of a great lords of it might eliminate another obstacle or increasingly important realm of administrative all but a regionalism. That is the possible breakdown of state and home room and the merging of geographical regional government primarily inspired by an allied to the national capital. To be sure as far back as President Washington and the two Adams and in a measure Jefferson. These were strong believers and National Public Works to unify the nation but they were also believers in the town meeting and state sovereignty they are very tall planners are like the critics tell nothing we are Dario It's one thing round a day with super duper metropolitan spouting. These pundits have a new vehicle Cabul area lingo mumbo jumbo an open sesame a kind of annoying rough prank on which only the elect can understand. It roll hard territorial coordinating committees were assembled in one column spot they would look like the end of twine squirming eels up there and you will get together and Clambake in the floating seaweed of the saucer sea and the results would be just about as notable. So called Regional Planning with all its new impressive lingo is not yet assigns probably and never will be. Some of those responsible for object is ways and means in results have judgement as well as experience then the results are good. Others in the words of the always make big decisions and they're sometimes right. As to the scientists and experts the responsible layman cannot be heard to complain that he finds in any tough contacts that it is the habit of technicians to be technical I'm not the decision must rest finally on common sense. It is to be noted in passing that an astonishing number of otherwise intelligent observers believe that in public administration there are safety in numbers on the contrary generally speaking progress is made not by ponderous special committees and commissions in the hands of articulate vicious amateur planners facile only in generalizations but by the overriding common interest and voluntary cooperation of numerous skilled officials at all levels and aiming at specific limited realizable objects S. which can be reached in that time with a limited money chosen talents available successful institutions are still length and shadows of individuals not the board mass images of committees general go thaws not only ordinarily a very brilliant observer said one thing which assures its permanent place among administrators namely that all boards are long narrow and wouldn't. Any more of added that the bigger the board the devil the deadlier the scaffold. Without vision the people perish without leadership they wander around in the wilderness and never reach the promised land but why go on the absentees of the fat all of a disappointing. And on one with a little more eloquence and suasion are caught might have persuaded the dollars and recalcitrant stander are lympics of progress. Competitors are on their marks and set to go credit us with a larger object in the wind the aspirations of professional do gooders and box office and counting house arithmetic to be sure only and recognize that major industries must justify to their stockholders large expenditures for imaginative exhibits reaching back into origins in the past exploiting the markets of today and then to spending a wonders of tomorrow how we realized all unfair potentiality is shall we reach on though perhaps not but we are trying is Browning's had plans reached should exceed his grasp or what's I have in fall we've got other troubles widely advertised grossly exaggerated and sensationally presented by our most sophisticated local critics God rest their souls necessary survive their ministrations and we pay them little mind. For an organization dedicated to understanding and peace we have spent an inordinate amount of time in court to finding our right to serve the public and perhaps in the process of added to the world's stock of harmless precedents we knew we live Mr Longfellow remarked in one is perhaps not his greatest poem some rain must fall. In the life of this thing and there's been considerable precipitation of one but it has in the end produced an attractive landscape. We began with the usual disputes over our basic ground plan how to get rid of those who insisted on one rigid ultra modern design which among other things but a forced all the big industrial exhibits into a huge two story don't up a mile around a third of a mile in diameter. We have to be sure to recognize the natural and logical framework of Flushing Meadows but within this framework every exhibit has been on its own in those ensuring variety and originality as distinguished from conformity we have catered to no one school of thought under no central architectural motif to which all must conform we have tried to maintain a balance of interests but our overstressing this or that subject we have featured the temples of early June domestic and international the auto industries the products of states the ambitions of new republics the discoveries the space the potentiality of the album stadiums and arenas of Spawn rides music piled words foods simple and exotic all presented with ingenuity originality and good taste this is a family affair last year we began late after a spell of bad weather. We had threats of certain live downs pickets and agitators sought to use Flushing Meadow as a stage for a more springboard for the airing of grievances not remotely related to the fire. We had to have over size police and maintenance staff we had to negotiate no strike agreements which fortunately biologic proved to be reliable more and more I came to admire the late mag gainers dictum that the main job of the executive is to preserve our core daughter and decency. I learned again that the show for me a lot of failure is to try to please everybody. We have been accused of ignoring spies commercialism overemphasis and under emphasis on religion ought to train a puritanical contempt for on some of our most vitriolic critics point to Niagara of poison on me because I would not invade the joy of alien which is a foreign embassy on American soil and tear down the scroll offensive to another group as though in foreign affairs we have a right of censorship and coercion. We have survived the slings and arrows of that of the second season with a new fare and with every prospect of success the public cares little about the problems of theatrical producers and less about the opinions of critics it's a good show or isn't as the bandwagon rolls there will be plenty of riders some just in time to catch the caboose. You cannot see in savor this exposition a day and we hope it will pay us enough visits to witness the want the ingenuity of our exhibitors has brought all the harried how Rast visitor stubbornly bent on doing the entire affair in a day is a common sight he flies through looking back at the things he missed when a man is tired of the fairies tired of life. We are if I may say so proud of it and we have asked you to confirm a good opinion on the US and these critical times when discord seems to rule turn courage those who are trying hard to make significant contributions to harmony on the essential decency and goodwill of mankind. Are a.