ADDRESS, MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES

APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING CONFERENCE

BALTIMORE

September 27, 1961

I know that I express the sentiment of all the people of Maryland
when I say to you that we are greatly pleased and highly honored to
be your hosts at this Fourth Biennial Middle Atlantic States Appren-
ticeship and Training Conferences....

The task you set for yourself at this Conference, to find the means of
developing the productive capacity of our country by improving the
skills of those who work, is a task which must be accomplished. Whether
we are forced to fight in a nuclear war, or whether we are allowed to
enjoy the peace that should be the legacy of civilized mankind, the goal
you have set for yourselves here must be attained. For if we do not have
the education and the training to match the education and the training
of the communists, our hope for survival in such a struggle would be
pale indeed....

I congratulate you for the responsibilities you, as experts in your
field, have assumed here at this Conference. I commend you for the
effort you have made to solve one of the big economic problems of
our day—the training of men and women in the skills and techniques
required in an age of changing and expanding economic conditions.

It is my pleasure, as Governor of this State, to welcome you to
Maryland and to offer you its hospitality....

ADDRESS, MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS

OF EDUCATION

ANNAPOLIS

October 6, 1961

It was kind and thoughtful of your president to invite me here this
morning to greet you as you convene for this fall meeting of the Maryland
Association of Boards of Education. I am pleased that you have chosen
this historic capital city of Maryland, and these hallowed halls of learn-
ing of old St. John's College, as the place for your meeting....

The question of where to place the authority and the responsibility
for the operation of our public schools is one of the great controversies of
our times. It is a problem which Maryland faces, along with every other

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