UF00083775_00037.pdf

UF00083775_00037.txt

UF00083775_00037_pdf.txt

(Transcription of notes of address to Federal Reserve Bank)
\..
Gov. Sanders. Pres. Kimbrell...
Didn't know how to prepare for this meeting.
Scoutwsster: Fred, John, Max
Speech at SueratonPark Hotel
"Crisis in the Cities! Don't Miss It".
U.S. Chamber..WJat business men could..
should.. do about it.

We are totally unprepared for most of our national problems:

1. The burdens of world leadership

2. TAG impact of public education 'Every man
a king", Huey Long. Thomas Jeiferson.

3. Pee mobility of papulation

4. Tue obsolescence of skills

5. The signiticance of government expenditures ~-
Roads. FHA, SBA, FRB, EDP, labor.

6. The use or the power to tax for non-revenue
purposes.

Finally. Lue impact or urbanization (1947 ~- dig a well).
Tae SE is the least urbanized.

Its % increase 1950-60 led tae nation.

U.S. now 70% -- SE 54%.

U.s. increase 5% -- 52 increase 14%.

Gross statistics hide realities.

l. The growth is occurring in tue largest cities.

196065 2 SMSA of S-- 22.8

($1.);

4.

._2_
But not in the central cities.
In the FHA areas .. in the suburbs.

And that's where industry is locating.

Result: leaving in the central cities the

problems and the problem people.

moving to the suburbs the resources and the
resourceful people.

The small cities the villages -- are being by-

passed.. by the economy, and by the youth.

The highest rate of growth in SA in cities below

1 Million is 14.4% to 9.4%.

Two crescents: Va.. Old South to Calif.: Maine,

NB. MA, Great Lakes, North Dakota.

The negro population of Central cities grew fastest

12% in 1950 to 20% in 1965.

73% increase of population by 2,000 (115 M) and

almost all in fast-growing urban areas.

The ACIR has considered these facts, and reached some

tentative conclusions:

1.

There ought to be a national policy.
a. There are national policies:
Arrived at prognastically, fragmentally.

beaucratically. undemocratically.

b. We should have a voice in there.

-3-
2. There are state and local policies. Uncoordinated,
contradictory.
3. Should we consciously influence the location of
people and industry?
a. We do thru revenue bonds
b. Thru welfare programs
c. Turn competitive tax system:
d. Thru the location of transportation facilities.
e. Thru the location of governmental installations
The State of George, Russell, Vinson, Sanders
we have enough short-range problems
Law a order
Inflation
The world-wide revolution of rising expectations
We can achieve short-range solutions.
But if we expect them to stay solved. we had better
build a society. an economy. a government which can recognize
when it is necessary for the government to have a say in the

location of a well.

crisis of the Cities -- Don't miss it:
Sense of urgency
We have not became accustomed to
l. The burdens of world leadership
2. The impact of public education
Every man a king -- Huey Long
3. The impact of urbanization
1947 -- battle over the right to dig a well.
The mobility of population.
The obsolescence of skills, and its social as well as
individual consequence.
The significance of government expenditures.

The use of the power to tax for non-revenue purposes.

ACIR -- its nature and membership.

Intergovernmental Policies for Urbanization and New
Communitx Development.




PAGE 1

Scc~~~~~a1 -w1_. rd a.n a 0 prIi t5.r u-akioe ''S ~ i ntleCtei }ntMs t' S ..C:3-b c.. aLb~ies1lnc ud

PAGE 2

I. the Fim areas .. in the suburbs, and that's wnere industry is locating assult: Leaving in the central citie problems and the proble-n people. i'.oving to the suburbs t;1e resaurce. resourceful people. Tile signal cities -tiie villages -a:

PAGE 3

-.ev .iL-ag .....i.n.

PAGE 4

It S u~ f rec S e;,'entbcE. cuEIldt