BALTIMORE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION 683

a new and very militant Democrat from pin ball heights was in the
County Office Building one day. Upon seeing Scotty he asked who
that "big fellow" was and upon being informed was heard to remark,
"My, there is less there than meets the eye, isn't there?"

Scott is a very successful lawyer and investor. When he was running
for County Executive and someone suggested that he and Dale An-
derson reveal their assets he remarked, "If Sophia Lauren were run-
ning I'd be willing to make that arrangement. "

When I first decided to go into politics I went to George White for
advice. I said, "George, I want to run for office but I'm concerned
about this thing called image. I've been advised to just be myself.
What do you think?" George ruminated for a moment and then re-
plied, "I think someone's been giving you bad advice. "

If you fellows are waiting for me to make a serious speech, you for-
get that I have been to these affairs before. Recently I met with the
beer, wine and liquor interests to discuss raising the taxes on those
goodies. In the course of the meeting I requested certain statistics
from Baltimore County. Led by George Hocker, the booze lobby rose
as a man and said, "Do you mean with or without the County Bar
Association dinner?"

Yes, how easy it is for me to recall the pitiful deterioration of speak-
ers who tried to bring a message of importance to this jovial audience.
With the exception of Judge Dorsey Watkins, who managed to cam-
ouflage a law lesson within the heat lightning of his incisive wit, no
one has successfully been serious at this dinner. The length of the
cocktail hour prohibits tolerance of anything other than the humor-
ous or emotional. I can't emote very well and while I cannot compete
with the Paul Bailey recounted exploits of Mr. J. D. Hurry, I'll try
to be nonponderous by sticking to a little light politics.

It used to be that the fundamental difference between Republicans
and Democrats was that Republicans asked how much will it cost and
Democrats asked how much can we borrow. That was in the day
when people who were going out West on an auto trip used to joke
about their intention to "look in at Fort Knox to see if the gold was
still there. " Now we don't have to even bother to look, we know it's
gone.

I want you to know I've been very close to national politics since
I've been Governor. Can-oil Rosenbloom on several occasions per-
mitted me to share his box at the Colt games. I sat very near to Bobby