REMARKS, DEDICATION OF TRAILWAYS BUS TERMINAL

BALTIMORE
July 12, 1961

It is always heartening and inspiring to me, as Governor of Maryland,
to take part in the opening of a new building such as this which so
vividly exemplifies the social advancement and economic progress of our
State. I know of no yardstick which offers a more accurate measurement
of the quality of a community than its building, whether it be private or
public construction. People who are alert and alive build.

It is particularly inspiring to see this handsome and useful bus ter-
minal, which, as Mayor Grady has said, fits in so well with the plans of
this, Maryland's largest city, to revive and rebuild its downtown area.
The people of this city, and of the entire State of Maryland, are most
grateful to Safeway Trailways for this public service and for this expres-
sion of confidence in our city and State and their futures.

The city of Baltimore, which is the economic hub and the social center
of Maryland, owes its very existence to transportation. Situated as it is
at a north-south, east-west crossroad of commerce, its history is filled
with the exploits of men who have devoted themselves to the improve-
ment of the means of moving people and the products by which people
subsist.

We do not forget that it was Marylanders who built the clipper ships,
affording in those days the fastest connections between this country and
Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the West Indies. And we do
not forget that it was Marylanders who pushed the first great highway
and the first railroad across the Alleghenies to the rich valleys of the
Middle West.

We are a maritime people and a trading people, and hence we know
the value of a good system of transportation. Modes of transportation,
of course, have changed over the years. The Tom Thumb locomotive
and the clipper ship are long-since obsolete, but Maryland has not
lagged behind in the maintenance and development of its transpor-
tation system. The jet planes which fly out of Friendship and the great
ocean vessels which move out of the Port of Baltimore daily are proof of
this. This bus station itself is an example of the spirit of Maryland to
keep apace in this important field of endeavor.

It has been my good fortune and my great pleasure to have been
closely associated for many years with men connected with the develop-

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