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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: Anyone who is in
the business of providing services for com-
pensation is included, and I think lawyers
and doctors do receive compensation for
their services.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Armor.
DELEGATE ARMOR: May I ask sev-
eral very short questions?
THE CHAIRMAN: Proceed.
DELEGATE ARMOR: Does any other
state have this in their constitution?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I do not know, Dele-
gate Armor, whether there are any others
with this provision in the constitution, but
there are very few constitutions that have
been written during the lifetime of this
particular problem.
I do not know that any do, but maybe
Delegate Bard can supply that information.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bard, can
you supply it?
DELEGATE BARD: In recent years,
let me see, twenty-five states have estab-
lished agencies. This whole thing has got-
ten its momentum in the last five years.
There has not been a single state within
the last five years that has written a con-
stitution that has not given this considera-
tion — New York included.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Armor.
DELEGATE ARMOR: We are having
trouble with the microphone.
THE CHAIRMAN: Just a second.
DELEGATE DUKES: I always have the
same trouble with the telephone company
he is having with the microphone.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Armor.
DELEGATE ARMOR: Let me answer,
please, as a point of personal privilege.
DELEGATE DUKES: Do not feel like
you have to.
DELEGATE ARMOR: If the telephone
company had installed these microphones —
THE CHAIRMAN: No advertising per-
mitted.
DELEGATE ARMOR: My second ques-
tion is this. Would the legislature in its
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wisdom set up a statute or series of stat-
utes that would eliminate the Better Busi-
ness Bureau?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key?
DELEGATE KEY: No, this would not
take away anything that is clone privately.
The only thing analogous would be social
agencies.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Armor.
DELEGATE ARMOR: Is it likely in
your wisdom that Maryland would end up
with a small edition of Betty Furness?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: No comment, but
not really. I think that the legislature
would handle it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Armor.
DELEGATE ARMOR: I have one other
question of Delegate Bard.
You mentioned about your son's car.
Was that a voluntary effort on the part of
some auto manufacturer to call the car
back, or was there agitation to get those
cars called back?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I do not want to
stop anything here. As you can see from
the proposal that was submitted to us and
the article that came out of our Committee,
I think perhaps we might be taking this
from a different standpoint.
True, we are concerned about everyone
in this, the people who do have automobiles
which go wrong, people who are duped by
securities dealers and the like, but I think
there are other considerations here and I
do not want this to get bogged down in a
lot of extraneous material.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key, per-
haps you misunderstood Delegate Armor's
question. The question is whether the il-
lustration by Delegate Bard about the de-
fective automobile being called back, was —
whether it was called back voluntarily by
the manufacturer or called back by the
manufacturer because of some constitu-
tional or statutory provision?
Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: As I understand
it, the automobiles were called back by the
automobile manufacturer but under pres-
sure on the part of congressional visita-
tions and discussions in regard to the
whole area of automobile safety.
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