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ment educate your children, and house them. That's what the Government
is for!"

It can accurately be stated that you young women, and the thousands of
young men and women now being graduated throughout America, have a great
opportunity. You face a future that can be made thoroughly livable and satis-
factory, if you adhere to the principles you've learned, and put them into prac-
tice daily in our lives. But this future can be disappointing if educated persons
abandon themselves to the doctrine of the "easiest way" and listen to the
siren songs of those who would make Government the beginning and the end of
all things.

If, in your particular case, St. Mary's Female Seminary has been able
to fulfill its objective: if it has kept alive in your mind the principles upon
which our State was founded, the principles of sane thinking, of toleration,
then for your own sake, and for the sake of the State and country, hold fast
to what you have, and be thankful that you have had the opportunity to absorb
such doctrines.

Do your part as good citizens of Maryland and of America, to spread the
knowledge of, and the belief in, these principles, so that, instead of decaying
in the face of the onslaughts now being made by disloyal people everywhere
about us, they may grow stronger, and may become impregnable against any
assaults that may be made against them.

Value properly what you now have, and be prepared to sacrifice much
rather than yield one iota of the invaluable principles that now are yours. The
future of America is assured if persons like yourselves strive constantly for
the perpetuation of principles first given to the world in St. Mary's. By putting
into practice the lessons of this hallowed spot, a better day and generation
will have been achieved.

OPENING OF WFBR's NEW STUDIOS

June 24, 1939
Baltimore

IT is a distinct pleasure for me, as Chief Executive of the State of Maryland,
to be here in WFBR's new Radio Centre home tonight, and present the
greetings of the State of Maryland to the listeners of the National Broad-
casting Company and to conclude "Broadcasting Week" as dedicated to the
progress of Maryland's Pioneer Broadcast Station.

As I made a tour of the impressive transmitter house and this stately
Radio Centre just before coming to this microphone, I was impressed with the
realization that a Maryland station had kept stride with the ever-increasing
march of progress in the radio industry. As I watched the engineer in the im-
posing master-control room press buttons and turn switches on the most
modern of control consoles, I was reminded of those days two decades. ago
when radio was but a hobby for those with the spirit of a pioneer.