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inside of ten or fifteen years. Let me give you a simple

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illustration. We maintain public institutions, and we

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maintain them for only those people who can afford to pay.

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I hope you will forgive me for this illustration-. Two

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boys equally well qualified applied for admission to our

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university. One is accepted and goes through.- The other

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one cannot, and he is drafted; and as Mr. Clark said at

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our meeting, in Vietnam, God knows what happens to him.

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We have passed here a Bill of Rights, a statement that no

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one shall be deprived of life, liberty or protection, for

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any reason, and yet we deny by sins of omission which in

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my opinion are greater than the sins of commission.

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I think there is no greater sin than to put a

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stumbling block in the footpaths of those who want to learn,

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and the point here, a very simple one, it Is a philosophy,

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and whether we pass it or not, isn't going to make too

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much difference, I think, because some day some of these

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pages or some of these children who have been visiting us

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are going to bring suit against the State of Maryland and

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say, I was denied it because I could not afford it, and yet

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my people for centuries have been paying taxes to maintain