PROBLEMS OF THE GHETTO 779

The Governor, in issuing his appeal to youth, emphasized that they
must work within the law.

"Needless to say, I am looking for the student leader, the excellent
student, even graduate students, or successful young men and women
in the community, " he said. "While I am not opposed to including
militants within the law, I obviously cannot work with those who
would counsel or condone operating outside the law. This I do not
mean in any narrow sense; it includes those who would advocate
burning draft cards as well as cities. "

The Governor said such a movement would bring "fresh, open
minds to bear upon problems" faced unsuccessfully in the past by
adult leaders, and also would "bring some of our youthful idealists
face to face with the fiscal and political realities of such problems. "

The result, he said, should benefit all of the citizens of the State,
white and black.

In a separate memorandum, the Governor directed Christian PI.
Kahl, recently appointed Federal Manpower Coordinator for Mary-
land, to reexamine present programs and determine whether they are
sufficient to meet hard-core employment in the ghetto, whether they
provide equal opportunity to Negro college graduates and, partic-
ularly, whether they make a special effort to employ the skills of
returning Negro veterans from Vietnam.

"Evidence from other cities indicates that, as teachers, recreation
program leaders and police officers, the Negro Vietnam veteran has
been found to establish almost instantaneous respect and rapport
within the ghetto, especially among the young people, " the Governor
said.

"It is my hope that we will not fail any Viet vet, regardless of color, "
he said.

In addition to the staff memoranda, issued by the Governor before
he departed on a brief vacation yesterday, the Governor's office re-
leased a letter from Governor Agnew commending a major drug firm
which agreed to reimburse Baltimore pharmacists for uninsured losses
incurred during the recent civil disorders.

"Your kind gesture made at this time will be an essential step in
restoring the availability of vital pharmaceutical services to those af-
fected by the recent disorders, " he told the drug firm of Smith, Kline
and French Laboratories and its subsidiary, Menley and James, which
volunteered the offer in a telegram to the Governor.