sooner than they should, for at once they will learn never to
associate home with pleasure. In short, ladies and gentle-
men, we offer here for your inspection facts relative to to-
day's housing developments--developments conceived in
error, nurtured by greed, corroding everything they touch.
They destroy established cities and trade patterns, pose
dangerous problems for the areas they invade, and actually
drive mad myriads of housewives shut up in them.

These facts are well known to responsible economists,
sociologists, psychiatrists, city managers and bankers, and
certainly must be suspected by the people who live in the
suburban developments, yet there's no end in sight to the
construction. Indeed, Washington's planners exult whenever
a contractor vomits up five thousand new houses on a rural
tract that might better have remained in hay, for they see
in this little besides thousands of new sales of labor, goods
and services. Jobs open for an army of bulldozer operators,
carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, electricians, well-diggers,
bricklayers, truck drivers, foremen and day laborers. Then
come the new householders, followed by their needs. A shop-
ping center and supermarket are hurriedly built, and into
this pours another army of clerical and sales personnel,
butchers, bakers, janitors, auto dealers, restaurateurs, wait-
resses, door-to-door salesmen, mail carriers, rookie cops,
firemen, schoolteachers, medicine men of various degrees--
the whole ruck and stew of civilization's auxiliaries. Thus,
with every new development, jobs are born, money is earned,
money is spent, and pretty soon everyone can afford a new
television set, and Washington calls this prosperity.

That such prosperity is entirely material, possibly tem-
porary and perhaps even illusory, causes little concern at
present. It's money, isn't it? Well, maybe it is and maybe

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