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I am of the opinion that one of the surest ways of insuring for Maryland,
a continuation of interest in this matter is for the inclusion in the curricula of
the schools of our State, a sensible, comprehensive course in conservation. By
this, I mean that from the early days of childhood, our future citizens should
be encouraged and, while in school, at least, be compelled to give a certain
amount of thought regularly to the State's physical assets, and to the accepted
methods of preserving them.

I believe, too, that the State should lose no opportunity to cooperate with
the Federal Government along any lines that make for the preservation of
our seafood or wild-life, and for the better use of our lands, forests, or any-
thing we have. Such fact-finding agencies as are available in Washington, at
the University of Maryland, and in the Chesapeake Bay Biological Laboratory
at Solomons, are and must be, in increasing proportion, the beginning and
continuing inspiration for any and every effort towards conservation.

In brief, if it is possible to condense one's opinions about such a com-
prehensive and many-sided matter as this in a few words, our attitude and our
policy towards conservation is simply this: —That we must preserve what we
have; that we must give serious study to the development and increase of
every phase of our resources that offers possibilities, and in the matter of
commercial development we must, along with the development, also find
adequate avenues of distribution for the increased products; for only by showing
our people a way to utilize these increases will it be possible to keep alive the
desire for, and an interest in, such increases.

I am convinced, that there is no State in the Union where conservation,
in every phase, is more essential, or offers more certain promise of generous
results, than in Maryland, and I can promise you, gentlemen, that as long as
I am Governor of Maryland, the State Administration will leave no stone un-
turned that gives promise of an advance in the protection and development of
our resources.

In conclusion, I wish to say that the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries
constitute a priceless public domain, belonging to the people of our entire
State, and while recognizing the special interest of the watermen and others
living along its shores, it should be administered and developed in the interest
of all the people of our State. I am convinced that much can be done to
further develop its resources to the economic and recreational advantage of
our people and I believe there is enough intelligent interest and leadership in
our State at this time to accomplish that objective.

ONE YEAR AS GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

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January 10, 1940
Baltimore

BELIEVING as I do in the time-honored tradition that a public office is a
public trust, it seems fitting that tonight, as one year is concluded of my