Rene’ Dubos: The greatest crime committed in American cities may not be murder, rape or robbery, but rather the wholesale and constant exposure of children to noise, ugliness and garbage in the street, thereby conditioning them to accept public squalor as the normal state of affairs and diminishing their future enjoyment of life. From March ’72 Reader’s Digest
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Original illustration accompanying A Point to Ponder, The Paper, February 1974, page 7. Artist and depicted identities not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1974.
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