judicial reform that has taken place in the State in the hundred years
of our present State Constitution. The complete reorganization of the
Police Department of Baltimore City is one of the greatest tasks the
General Assembly has ever been called upon to perform. That it did
so, at one session and with all the other work before it, is to its ever-
lasting credit. The anti-social activities of a segment of our juvenile
population is one of the great unsolved problems of our time, and the
General Assembly grasped this problem firmly at this session. It set
up a new governmental agency—a new Department of Juvenile Services
—and gave it the responsibility for developing and administering an
effective program for the rare, treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile
delinquents. I mentioned the establishment of a new agency to operate
a program of educational and cultural television, one of the few gaps
in Maryland's system of public education. The authorization of a
Chesapeake Bay crossing, whatever your personal prejudices or pre-
dilections as to location may be, is a major step forward in our highway
program. Add to this a second harbor tunnel, new bridges across the
Patuxent River and the Sinepuxent Bay, plus the addition of $60
million in bonding authority for the acceleration of our road-building
program, and it sounds a little silly to call this a "do-nothing" session.

If you depended upon the newspapers, or upon radio or television,
to keep yourself informed about happenings in Annapolis during the
session, you know little about a new gun-control law; about the in-
surance bills and the marine conservation measures I mentioned;
about a significant move forward in our program of driver education.
You have little, if any, knowledge about a bill which I have signed
which sets up the machinery and a program to make available to all
citizens of Maryland community mental health services, moving the
State forward in a new concept for the prevention, treatment and
rehabilitation of the mentally ill in their local communities. And, if
you depended upon these media for your information, you know
nothing at all about two very important bills relating to the problem
of water pollution. One was a bill requiring all counties to develop
county-wide plans for water-supply and sewerage systems. The other
authorizes the issuance of $8, 795, 000 in State bonds, to be augmented
with federal funds, for the continuation of a sewerage program started
by the Health Department last year. I thought these two Administra-
tion bills to be of sufficient importance to issue press releases on them,
but in the welter of the spectacular and the sensational, they remained
unheralded.

Some of the journalists who covered the General Assembly wrote

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