gained in Hagerstown during the past three years. In doing so, you
have 6, 103 more people, 1, 700 more households, 1, 547 more school
children $12 million more personal income per year, $3, 893, 000 more
bank deposits, 21 more retail establishments, 1, 100 more employed in
non-manufacturing and $5, 627, 000 more in retail sales per year. So,
1, 700 new jobs, or 200 new jobs — or any number of new jobs, for
that matter — are not to be sneered at when the economic health
of a community is being considered.

Of course, industrial development has its costs, and sometimes they
can be high. It costs money, as we all know, to educate the 1, 547
additional school children we were talking about. The new factories
and the new employees will demand increased services, entailing
capital outlays and increased community expenditures. New streets
and highways will have to be built. Water and sewerage facilities
will have to be expanded. There will be a requirement for more
police and fire protection, for more hospital facilities, increased health
and welfare services. But we Americans like to move ahead, to explore
new frontiers, to meet new challenges. We believe in progress, and
we are walling to face the problems that go with it. Better a tempest,
we think, than the doldrums.

I am no prophet, but I foresee a bright and prosperous future for
Maryland, which, of course, includes the lovely mountainous area
of our State. The great Appalachian region of our country, of which
our three mountain counties are economically and socially a part, has
been described as "the nation's economic problem no. 1. " But its
ills have been diagnosed and effective remedies are being prescribed.

Three years ago, at a meeting in Annapolis called by me, the
Governors of the Appalachian States set up the Appalachian Gover-
nors Conference to study and solve the economic problems which
beset the region. Seeds were sown in this Conference of governors for
the establishment of President Kennedy's Area Redevelopment Ad-
ministration and the President's Appalachian Regional Commission
which are attempting to find a permanent remedy for the economic
ailments which afflict us. And incidentally, the plan that was con-
ceived in Annapolis in May, 1960, will have come full circle with a
meeting which will be held here in Hagerstown on November 22.

In recognition of the peculiar problems of the Appalachian region,
President Kennedy established the Appalachian Region Commission,
which is headed by Franklin D, Roosevelt, Jr., the Under-Secretary
of Commerce. Mr. Roosevelt and key members of his staff will be here
to discuss with the civic and governmental leaders of the three

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