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THE WASTE QUAKERS by Vance Packard City of the Euture? V/hat will the world of tomorrov/ be like? Spokesmen for industry like to speculate about tomorrow even more than the rest of us. They invite us to peer out on to the horizon and see the v/on-drous products their marketing experts are conceiving for us. The utopia might be called Cornucopia City, and its setting is out on the misty horizon of time. In Cornucopia City, as I understand it, all the buildings will be made of a special papier-mache. These houses can be torn down and rebuilt every spring and fall at housecleaning time. The motor-cars of Cornucopia viill be made of s, light-weight plas ic that develops fatigue and begins to melt if driven more than four thousand miles. One fourth of the factories of Cornucopia City will be located on the edge of a cliff, and the ends of their assembly lines can be swung to the front or rear doors depending upon the public demand for the product being produced. \''ib.en demand is slr-ck, the end of the assembly line v.'ill bex sv/ung to the rear door and the output of refrigerators or other products will drop out of sight and go directly to their graveyard without first overwhelming the consumer market. Wednesday viill be Navy Day. The Ns.vy will send a surplus warship to the city dock. It will be filled with surplus play-suits, cake mix, vacuum cleaners, and trampolines that have been stock-piled at the local United States Department of Commerce complex of warehouses for surplus products. The ship will go thirty miles out to sea, where the crew will sinlc it from a safe distance.