508 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

sider ourselves to be highly sensitive to the problems of the City.
We're interested in the City's rehabilitation, and we intend to do
everything we can to assist Mayor D'Alesandro and the newly-elected
City Council in furthering the course of conduct most advantageous
to the citizens of Baltimore.

I tried to reach the Mayor-elect today, but I haven't been successful
yet. I intend to sit down with him at the earliest possible moment
to get some of his thinking on the attack of City problems. He and I
worked well and successfully in the past on the Metropolitan Area
Council, and I'm sure we'll continue to do the same in the future.

Q. Governor, you said that the State recognizes Baltimore's peculiar
problems. Is there more help that the State can give for the City?

A. Well, I think there's a selectively better way to employ what help
the State can give. If you mean by more help, is there more money,
I'm not sure of how much more money there's going to be. We've
raised the taxes, all that the traffic will bear for awhile, as far as the
individual is concerned. We are now targeting in on making economies
in the government to provide additional money for more important
purposes. Yet, we recognize the City's problems and we're sensitive
to them. As I indicated, we are going to do everything we can to help.

Q. Do you believe that the people working in the City ought to con-
tribute more of the money?

A. I've never been a believer in the mere fact that if a person goes
into the City, it makes it necessary for him to contribute to City serv-
ices. I believe that the City is the responsibility of the entire metro-
politan area, and I believe that the welfare of the City is essential if
the metropolitan area is to nourish and prosper. So I don't think it's
imperative that we reach a decision that users of the City for the pur-
poses of working should support the City, because these same users
contribute to the economic welfare of the City by supporting its busi-
ness, by utilizing the Baltimore Transit Company, which pays a tax
to the City alone, and in many other ways.

Q. Do you favor or oppose direct Federal aid to the municipality,
rather than to the State?

A. Yes, I do oppose that, and I was successful in sponsoring a resolu-
tion at the National Governors' Conference — which passed unani-
mously — which would require, or request rather, the Federal govern-
ment to include the state as a fully-qualified working partner in all
Federal-city assistance programs. I feel it's wrong to leave the state