Town and Country Planning At the closing assembly of the
International housing and Town Planning Congress a voice was raised—that of Mr. E. P. Everest, vice-chairman of the Rural District Councils Association—on behalf of a clearer differentiation 'between town and country planning. The real danger to the countryside, he urged, was that planning throughout the world had so far been led by town planners. It was they who caught the ear of Governments and adminis- trators ; and their pre-occupations with industry, trans- -port, and building on a large scale have dominated the whole development of theory and practice. There is much truth in that ; but the remedy is not simple. The people who ought to be the leaders of country 'opinion are, as a rule, too scattered and unorganized to enforce their point of view. And we fear it is too often the case that the rank and file of country dwellers have no point of view at all, except the individual covetousness which prompts .to vandalism.
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