Perhaps the educated man and woman of the future will be grate-
ful to a generation of Marylanders who recognized the value of
education and made the necessary provisions for it. It was no easy
task to transform our former State Teachers Colleges into Liberal
Arts Institutions capable of providing our children and grandchildren
with broader educators. Nor was it easy to secure the necessary ap-
propriations essential to maintain the calibre of the teaching pro-
fession in Maryland as we did in 1964. Since 1959, there has been
a 109. 2 per cent increase in total expenditures for public higher edu-
cation. Although the number of students continuing their educations
has nearly doubled since 1959, the State has been able to more than
keep pace with the need for higher education facilities by using more
than 73 per cent of the capital improvements budget for this
purpose. This is more than double the proportion of the capital
budget devoted to public higher education seven years ago. These
accomplishments are a tribute to you and to the leaders of the General
Assembly and to all the people of Maryland who manifest an interest
in governmental affairs.

It is my hope also that, someday in the future, those who recover
from the afflictions of either mental or physical disorders as a result
of services provided by government, will offer a kind word for a
generation of enlightened Marylanders who recognized the importance
of accredited State Hospitals and the necessity for staffing these hos-
pitals with competent professional men and women.

Perhaps the motorist of the future will feel indebted to the citizens
of the present era, who, recognizing the problems of highway travel,
provided almost 1, 300 miles of modern roadways during an eight
year period beginning in the late fifties.

Some wonderful events have taken place in our State during the
past six and a half years and I do not think it immodest if we, as
Marylanders and as Democrats, take pride in some of our accomplish-
ments.

Our interest in economic development, was so intense in the early
days of my first administration that it brought into existence the
Maryland Department of Economic Development, which, since the
first annual census of the State's industrial growth made in 1962, has
resulted in the location of 189 new factories in Maryland and in the
expansion of 203 plants. $100 million has been invested in new plants
and $245 million has been invested in additions to established in-
dustrial facilities. Most important, 20, 000 men and women were
given jobs at the time these new industrial facilities went into

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