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(There was no response.)
A quorum being present, the Convention
is in session.
The very handsome floral display on the
rostrum is the Christmas gift to the Con-
vention from Delegates 'Audrey Cicone and
Anne D. Hopkins. I thank them both very
much.
Delegate Sickles.
DELEGATE SICKLES: Mr. President,
I rise on a point of personal privilege.
THE PRESIDENT: State the privilege.
DELEGATE SICKLES: In the gallery
opposite the President are thirty seniors
from Northwestern High School and with
them is their teacher, Mrs. Barbara Gold-
stein, and I know the Convention will want
to extend their usual warm greetings.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Freed-
lander.
DELEGATE FREEDLANDER: Mr.
President and fellow delegates, I should
like this group to welcome in the gallery
above the rostrum Mrs. Samuel Richelman
and her two children, students of Park
School.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Barrick.
DELEGATE BARRICK: Mr. President
and ladies and gentlemen of the Conven-
tion, I should like you to welcome my wife,
Joan J. Barrick, my son, Paul Barrick, and
my daughter, Linda Barrick, and also
James P. Mause, Chief Clerk of the House
of Delegates.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Mr. Presi-
dent, I would like this group to welcome if
they would, a distinguished professor and
educator, a former chairman of the politi-
cal science department of the University
of Minnesota, a former president of the
League of Women Voters in the State of
Wisconsin, a former president of the Mid-
west Political Science Association, and the
most distinguished political scientist in the
Penniman family, my sister, Claire Penni-
man of the University of Wisconsin.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Rush.
DELEGATE RUSH: Mr. President, I
rise on a point of personal privilege.
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THE PRESIDENT: State the privilege.
DELEGATE RUSH: It gives me a great
deal of pleasure to introduce to you a
gentleman's son with whom I served in
the House of Delegates for two sessions,
David Hickman, the son of David Carter
Hickman. He is a graduate of Harvard
Law School. He is presently a clerk to the
Chief Judge of the circuit court.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate E. J.
Clarke.
DELEGATE E. CLARKE: Mr. Presi-
dent and ladies and gentlemen of the Con-
vention, I have a communication from Mrs.
Tiffs Civics Class Kensington Junior
High:
"Dear Mr. Clark,
"After reading in the newspaper that the
Constitutional Convention wanted high
schools to submit preambles, our class de-
cided to write one. We think our preamble
is good because it's short and to the point.
We hope you will find it interesting and
perhaps consider using it.
"Thank you for your consideration."
Mr. President and ladies and gentlemen,
this is what the class wrote :
"We, the citizens of Maryland, adopt
this constitution to define our freedoms,
insure our rights, liberties, and to main-
tain the general welfare; in order to form
a more united State."
I thank you.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: I regret to advise
you that the first vice-president of the
Convention met with a mishap yesterday
working around his home. He slipped as a
result of which a heavy battery fell on his
hand, broke several bones in his right hand,
and lacerated it pretty badly.
He is in the hospital receiving antibiotic
treatment to prevent infection. Mrs. Clark
tells me the doctor will keep him there the
rest of this week, so that he will not return
to the Convention until after Christmas.
I have a belated announcement that
should be entered on the journal. I will ask
the reading clerk to read it.
READING CLERK: Please enter on the
journal that pursuant to the mutual re-
quest of Delegate Joseph L. Johnson and
Delegate J. Hardin Marion, on December
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