budget and the capital budget, of course, for building, equipping
and staffing the vitally needed Baltimore County campus of the
University and for improvements of the professional schools in Balti-
more. Comparable increases have been allowed for expanding and
strengthening Morgan State College, the five colleges which operate
under a single board of trustees, and St. Mary's College in Southern
Maryland. Our concern for the elevation of the quality of the edu-
cation offered by these institutions is reflected in many parts of their
budgets, and in particular the provision that has been made for the
upward revision in the faculty salary scale for every rank in all the
institutions. A high quality of education cannot be sustained without
capable teachers, and we are doing what we can to attract and retain
faculties of the highest qualifications. In this connection, it is worthy
of note that nearly half — 622 of 1, 314 — of the new positions we are
recommending for next year are for educational and related purposes.
Before I leave the subject of education, I should like to point out that
provision has been made, or will be made later in the session, to
finance an educational television network, to strengthen the State
scholarship system and to provide vocational on-the-job training for
unemployed and underemployed persons under the Federal Area
Redevelopment and Manpower Development Act.

A seven-station State-wide ETV network will be developed to
serve the educational, cultural and informational needs of all of the
citizens of Maryland, from children in pre-school age to our senior
citizens. The use of this important medium of communications for
the fulfillment of the cultural and educational needs of the people
has been too long neglected, and we must move ahead as rapidly as
possible to develop the educational television network. Legislation
will be presented to you for the revision and expansion of the sena-
torial scholarship program. This legislation proposes to change the
arbitrary fixed amount now appropriated by the State to support the
senatorial scholarships to a system based on the actual catalogue
cost in each college. In addition the legislation would extend the
scholarship program to other accredited four-year colleges.

PUBLIC HEALTH

The good health of its citizens is of constant concern to the State.
As is the case with an individual, health to a state or nation is more
important than wealth. And so my program for next year calls for
sizeable increases in expenditures to improve the scope and the
effectiveness of the programs which are being operated by the De-

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