to educate children, and while they are in school, they produce no
revenue for the State. On the other end of the age scale, people are
living longer lives, creating what has come to be known as the problems
of the aging, a group which likewise, insofar as state revenues are
concerned, are in some measure non-productive.

In a dynamic society such as ours, people become restless if their
government shows a tendency to become static and immobile. Teachers
and other government employees want more money for the work they
do. Citizens clamor for more schools, more highways, more hospitals,
better police protection, improved conditions in correctional institu-
tions, more parks and recreational facilities, better medical care, and so
on. We are all conscious of the trend toward centralization and the
consequent demands of local governments for a greater share of state
revenues. We have attempted to put a rein on this trend in Maryland,
and I believe we have attained a measure of success in our undertaking.

As I said in the beginning, we in Maryland are fortunate in that we
do not face a budgetary crisis. But we have not and we shall not rely
on good fortune to carry us through. We shall continue to be as
thrifty as possible in the operation of our State agencies and services.
We shall continue in our effort to improve our tax structure. From
that point on, we can only hope that economic prosperity will provide
the revenues that are necessary to sustain our wants.

ADDRESS, SOUTHERN GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE

ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

October 12, 1959

I have been a State Governor now for just two days less than nine
months, and my experience with the problems of State government is
more limited than that of many of you here.

After I had surveyed that brief span of time—recalling the difficulty
of setting up an efficient executive office after eight long years of Repub-
lican Administration, the plaguing problem of executive appointments
and the thousand-and-one other obstacles a new Governor must hur-
dle—I concluded that my biggest problem had been one probably
common to all of us—the persistent, perennial never-ending problem of
money. How can we meet expenses? How can we pay our bills?

To be a little more specific, my problem in Maryland, and this may

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