158 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

A major obligation rests with you, our young, well educated and
talented members. You must be the cadres which go out to the people
to prove that youth and vigor and idealism live within the Republican
Party... that it may be a grand party but not an old one. For the
Party is you. It can offer you support and encouragement, organiza-
tion and information, but its living image rests with you. So remain
faithful but flexible. Recall our party's history but think new
thoughts. Know why we have triumphed and where we have failed.
See the world as it is but see it positively. Sense what is happening but
evaluate it constructively.

Carry the crusade for Republican humanism to places where Re-
publicans have long been reluctant or loath to travel. Get a little dust
on your shoes. In fact, start acting like a Democrat!

I thank you and I applaud you.

STATEMENT ON SIGNING SENATE BILL 237
(OPEN HOUSING BILL)
AND SENATE BILL 173

(PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS LAW EXTENSION)
April 21, 1967

With the bill I now sign, Maryland once again asserts its leadership
among Southern states in the enactment of civil rights legislation.

Our public accommodations law, first enacted in limited form four
years ago and expanded statewide the following year, was the first
such law south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Today we observe a similar first with the signing of the Open Hous-
ing Bill, Senate Bill 237.

This Act will outlaw discrimination in the sale of new houses or the
rental of new apartments in buildings of 12 units or more which are
constructed after July 1, 1968.

The right of the individual homeowner to sell his home to whom he
pleases is protected. Specifically exempted from the bill is the resale
of a home by its owner if he was the last person to occupy the premises.