usage purposes. Essentially this is an issue to be decided not on the
basis of opinion, sentiment, or special interest considerations. The
prime factor is the development of a high quality, dependable source
of water supply for the seat of our nation's government together with
its attendant housing development, industries and commerce. This
should not preclude, of course, consideration of the other factors
but they should be kept in the proper perspective with regard to the
overall needs of the area.

ADDRESS, CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN
ASSOCIATION OF GAME AND INLAND FISH COMMISSIONERS

BALTIMORE
October 26, 1959

It is a pleasure to me to welcome all of you to Maryland for this
thirteenth annual convention of the Southeastern Association of
Game and Fish Commissioners. We are happy that you chose Balti-
more for this 1959 meeting.

Our State has been called the southernmost of the northern states
and the northernmost of the southern states. But its culture is domin-
antly southern and most of us here think of ourselves as southerners.

You are interested in hunting and fishing and in the preservation
of wildlife, and so are we here in Maryland. I don't believe there is
any spot in the country where you will find more eager hunters and
more avid fishermen than you find right here.

We are very fortunate here, too, that nature has endowed us with
a reasonable abundance of game and fish for the sportsmen. Mr.
Ernest Vaughn, the director of our Department of Game and Inland
Fish whom you have honored by electing as the president of your
Association, advises me that last year 4,596 deer were killed in Mary-
land. That is a pretty good record for a small state.

For waterfowl, we are one of the foremost states on the Atlantic
flyway, with a plentiful supply each year of Canada geese, and canvas-
back, redhead and black ducks. Normally, our Tidewater terrain is
the most important wintering ground for migratory birds.

Our farms and forests are an excellent habitat, too, for upland
game — rabbits, squirrels, qual, pheasants, raccoon and grouse. In

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