Speech #890162130

I cannot be persuaded that this is the kind of spiritual and moral climate in which our enormous responsibilities and opportunities can be met intelligently and energetically. In a further extension of these ideas. I think that society can ill afford to turn its back on rural America and say that all the problems of the 20th century are to be found in the cities. The concentration of population and lowincome families in the cities inevitably causes greater impact. But the cities themselves can ill afford further immigration from the rural area. It will only complicate their problems and lead to further ills. In the less populated parts of the country. we have a chance to build up the economies through careful planning and development.