802 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

So here we stand. These are the challenges we must face. And if
you think your generation has reaped a bitter inheritance, let me as-
sure you that you are thinking what every generation has thought
throughout history. Your parents were heir to a world decimated by
war and genocide, a civilization menaced by the atomic bomb. My
generation confronted abysmal economic depression and emerged
from college or high school to fight a war. The generation before that
knew the burdens of disillusionment — they had fought a war "to
make the world safe for democracy" only to find they had paved the
way for Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. And so it goes throughout his-
tory.

Looking at it from your side, I must admit, when parents throw up
their hands in despair at the sight of a new generation long on hair
and lean on faith, they are doing no more than parents have done
throughout the ages. We must remember this: it restores our perspec-
tive and our sense of humor.

Actually, I know your generation is better prepared and, I believe,
it is more willing to face the problems of today than any generation
in our nation's history. You have benefited from the knowledge ex-
plosion, the education explosion, the discipline of having more ex-
pected of you by your schools, the greater freedom and mobility of
our society. I am confident that you will overcome what one critic
of American youth called the Spock-syndrome of permissive behavior
and you will not succumb to the A-bomb anxiety which paralyzed
rather than galvanized a past generation. '

I am certain you will bring fresh vision and vigor to the Demo-
cratic process. In fact, I am so confident that I have proposed the
formation of the Governor's Youth Council on Human Relations to
take a crack at solving some of the State's toughest problems — and
have been requested to form another on Law Enforcement and the
Administration of Justice. I favor this for two reasons.

First, I believe that Maryland's youth has something constructive
to say in analyzing the problems and planning the solutions. I also
feel you have something to do in the community. I look to my Youth
Council for more than armchair expertise; I expect them not only to
plan programs but to implement them.

Second, only through total involvement can you know the total
story with all its problems. Right now many student leaders in col-
lege stand on the sidelines and shout for more government spending
without understanding that — in this State at least — the well has