gathering marks the first time Maryland has taken the opportunity
to underline, and hold up to public view, the tremendous economic
stake which our State has in the space age. I count this meeting as a
milestone along the path of our economic development. From this day
forward, I hope that every citizen of Maryland will become aware of the
far reaching new activities which, in the next decade, are certain to
transform a great many of the established industrial patterns of our
State.

I eagerly welcome these changes, and am gratified to see that the
natural advantages which we have to offer science-based industry are
being matched by an equally high quality contribution of human enter-
prise and imagination. Please accept my good wishes for a most suc-
cessful meeting.

ADDRESS, PRESENTATION OF MARYLAND
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AWARD

BALTIMORE
October 6, 1961

I am here this evening in a dual capacity, as Governor of the State and
as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Academy of
Sciences, with the very pleasant task of presenting a plaque and a cash
grant to Maryland's "Outstanding Young Scientist" of 1961. My remarks
will be very brief this evening—for one reason because it is so planned
by your program chairman, for another because certainly I have neither
the gifts nor the training to discuss the intricacies and involvements of
the sciences with such a distinguished group of scientists as we have
gathered here. I say I have no gifts, no training, no experience that
would qualify me to discuss science, unless, of course, we consider science
in the broader, more basic, sense that would include the science of
politics. In that case, I would say—with enough modesty, I hope—that,
disregarding gifts, I might be able to qualify by training and experience.
The science of politics has been defined in many ways. One definition
I recall was by an esteemed labor leader, who said it was the science of
"who gets what, when and why. "

But I know you here are not interested in the science of "who gets what,
when and why, " but are concerned with the natural sciences which have
been the foundation of mankind's advancement in civilization.

I should like to compliment the Maryland Academy of Sciences for

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