TV Debut for Law Forum

Local television audiences saw the Law School Forum make its video debut over WBZ-TV last night.

Catherine Bower, vice-President of the National Public Housing Conference, G. Holmes Perkins '26, professor of Regional Planning, and Richard A. Holman 3L, outgoing president of the Law School Forum, presented a 20-minute program about Boston's traffic and housing problems.

Solutions to these problems are impossible, the speakers agreed, unless the population of Boston is reduced. They proposed decentralization of industries to rural areas so that employees of industrial concerns would follow.

Such shifts away from cities have already been in progress in several parts of the country and, to a small extent, in Boston, the speakers said, adding that the decentralization plan is far superior to city-housing projects that concentrate on tall buildings to accommodate increasing populations. Skyscraper dwellings are especially undesirable for families with children, it was noted.