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ence, and hopeful that some of the spirit you bring here will remain
here, and that much of what you find here will be remembered by
you, long after you have elected your officers and passed your resolu-
tions.

Your business at this convention today is not unlike the business

of governors, for together we tend to the affairs of people, providing

for them and with them the setting of directions and the realization
of goals. Together we acknowledge a greater reason for existence than
mere sustenance and survival. Together we share the creed that serv-
ice to humanity is the best work of life.

And we know something else—that from activity comes inspiration
and that from involvement comes the better society and the better
man.

We in Maryland recognize the vitality that young men bring to the
affairs of government and have proposed a program to make full use
of this determined and unspoiled energy—a program we call the
Graduate Corps. As the name suggests, graduates of college, graduate
school students and even undergraduates are given an opportunity to
serve in government at all levels—to see how it works and to work
with it.

This is a program that shares in spirit many of the projects the Jay-
cees throughout the nation find pertinent and productive. I believe
we have established in Maryland a prototype worthy of duplication
throughout the country and I cannot imagine any group more worthy
of sponsoring it than the one I have the pleasure of addressing today.

You know and I know that while it is the privilege of the old to
worry, the young must work—and that while the sick may idle, the
well must serve. And if our nation today appears more educated than
dedicated, more confused than committed, the fault must be found not
in the past but in the present and not with the declining generation
but with the rising one.

You are America. You are its strength and its future, its servants
and its masters. And because many of your generation have lost their
way, have not found words to live by, or works to achieve, or truths to
trust—you, the enlightened and dedicated few, must work all the

harder and make your voices heard all the louder

In an earlier day America held out its hand across the seas to "the
tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free. " Today the