hand. I urge you in the strongest terms to pick up this project and
make it go, in the name of business and industry. There is no point
in my urging the Legislature to enact the legislation which will make
low-cost State loans available for a major part of the construction
cost, and I do not think they will oppose such legislation, unless you
of the community for whose benefit the hospital will exist, are pre-
pared to do your part in providing the remaining funds necessary to
make it a reality.

I am firmly convinced that you can do your part of the job and do
it in short order, once you have made up your minds about it. I recog-
nize the fact that you are importuned from many quarters for assist-
ance, and I know that you have responded often and generously. You
give because you work here and live here and you are invested deeply
in this community. But as so often happens, the giving that you do
is not ascribed to you. The giving by business and industry is frag-
mented so that the public very often does not realize what you are
doing or have done for it. In making this South Baltimore General
Hospital a reality, by taking on the responsibility for it, you business
and industrial leaders may be able to place a marker that all can see,
to demonstrate to one and all, what you have done for the community.

South Baltimore General has been operated efficiently and well.
It has been accumulating both capital and friends over the years,
with its eyes on the new site and the meeting of hospital requirements
of more than 300, 000 men, women and children in its vicinity. It
needs a lift from you... you leaders, and I give it to you straight:
Not token leadership, nor token gifts. This must not be a matter of
a few thousand dollars for each of your companies and you must think
about this hospital as peculiarly yours, I ask you to say to your boards,
or to your top people and colleagues, that they should make it their
job, too. You must pick up this challenge and turn in your best per-
formance, and when those of you who are here tonight, and who
represent companies with home offices elsewhere, go to your contribu-
tion committees or your foundations, you must go only with thoughts
of substantial gifts. The people who live in the hospital's vicinity are
not likely to be able to give large gifts, though I am assured that the
hospital stands so well with those in its neighborhood that the hos-
pital's appeal to them will win full support.

You are the men who will make the difference. This is your hospital
— industry's hospital. Your employees will count on you, the public
will count on you, and I am counting on you. As Governor, I see
this hospital project as a matter of importance to the industrial center

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