ABSTRACT
Scientific management has contributed to thinking on planning, and the depression was the occasion for the extension of planning thought and literature. Luther Gulick has expressed the central significance of planning for public administration: a rational apportionment of means to the ends which constitute a full and well-balanced life. Planning is essential to the Good Life because the Good Life means "nothing too much". Good administration will help those who "need the help of government in their struggle for justice, security, steadier employment, better living and working conditions, and a growing share of the gains of civilization". The range of planning and of government operation consequently will be extensive in the Good Society—but more important, and logically taking priority, is the question of the values that the planning and control seek to realize. Since the Good Life consists to a great degree in the enjoyment of material things, science is emphasized, efficiency and economy demanded, and industrialism highly prized.
