502 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

6. A special, emergency grant of $5 million for Baltimore's inner
city schools was included in the fiscal reform legislation.

7. All faculty salary scales were increased at both our State colleges
and the University of Maryland.

8. A $10 million capital construction grant was appropriated spe-
cifically to expedite Maryland's community college development.

It doesn't take an expert in the new math to calculate that to date
we're batting 1000. Your legislators and your Governor have placed
the priority they pledged upon education — and delivered the pro-
grams. This recognition of responsibility transformed to effort and
then to achievement is a weight that counts.

The second weight is investment. The over $70 million in additional
State aid to education is the greatest single increase in Maryland's
history. It is, in fact, better than four times greater than any past
record. This commitment of State revenue reveals your government's
confidence in education as the single greatest force to solve our col-
lective problems, to fulfill our individual potential and aspirations.
This massive allocation can be regarded as your government's tangible
affirmation that education is the most profitable investment society
can make and the richest reward it can confer.

The third weight that counts is the increased financial participation
of the Federal government. Among the founders of our nation, no
man appreciated education's importance to representative democracy
or advocated its cause more vigorously than Thomas Jefferson when
he wrote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. " Half a
century later, President James Garfield echoed Jefferson's faith when
he said: "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular edu-
cation, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently
maintained. "

Yet the Federal government has been constrained to confer and the
State government has been reluctant to accept Federal funds for edu-
cation. For we were also heirs to another Jeffersonian principle which
equated Federal aid to education with Federal control of education.
Actually the precedent of Federal aid is documented as far back as
the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Morrill Act of 1862 established
the still-important, still-independent Land Grant College system.

The importance of education to our nation's security, prosperity
and progress has caused this traditional fear to decline if not disap-