532 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Crime, another pernicious problem within our cities, will be re-
duced as we reduce recidivism in our prisons. Again, current voca-
tional training is the key to rehabilitation and your aid is invaluable.
I believe that only with the cooperation of labor and management
can we develop meaningful vocational training programs that can
stop the revolving-door syndrome in Maryland's correctional institu-
tions.

These are concrete areas where your help is needed and your co-
operation sought. Government simply cannot provide instantaneous
answers or comprehensive programs to solve the complex and relieve
all conflict. The expenditures of government have a direct relation-
ship to the resources and energy we as private citizens are willing to
apply to public problems. The less we invest privately, the more tax
dollars government must spend. This is a mathematically unsound
proposition, and, in human terms, even more shameful. We can put
a limitation on this waste by encouraging the private sector to act
wherever and whenever it can answer public problems better and
more cheaply than government.

In the last analysis, it is not government but the initiative of people
acting on their own that makes the world around us better and more
livable. After this summer of violent and virulent discontent, we can-
not afford to delude ourselves that it can't happen here — or deny or
delay measures to assuage our urban crisis. Neither government nor
industry can delegate or abrogate its respective responsibilities if we
are to restore and secure our cities.

We must face the challenge ahead realistically, but with enthusiasm
too; and remember that the world's most affluent and technologically
advanced society has the resources, talents and energy to solve the
complex — all we need is the willl

REMARKS AT McKELDIN TESTIMONIAL DINNER,
BALTIMORE

November 20, 1967

I have a suspicion, indeed a faith, that after the last toast has been
intoned this evening, after the memories of a vital and exciting life
have been recharged, after our guest has been embarrassed and con-
sumed by eulogy and anecdote, he will rise, pause in that familiar way