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be known and treated as one who is sick. Except in speculation, we, of course,
cannot go that far; but there is maybe a helpful hint, as to possible facts, in
the idea. In many, many instances the offender is far more sick than he is
criminal. How to ascertain that, if it is so, what action to take—these are
considerations to which a proper Parole system of the future must address
itself.

POULTRY DAY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

July 26, 1939
College Park

IT was indeed a happy coincidence that the dedication of this splendid new
Poultry Building and Plant should come just at the time when the foreign
delegates to the World Poultry Congress were in this vicinity, on their way to
Cleveland, thus making it possible for us to have them with us here today.
Maryland is happy, and fortunate, to welcome such a distinguished group, and
to have the benefit of their assistance and interest in the formal ceremonies
attendant upon this dedication.

As Chief Executive of Maryland, I take great pleasure in extending to our
foreign visitors, and to all who are gathered before me, the greetings of the
State at large. The occasion is one of great importance; first to the Uni-
versity, because it will enable it to broaden the scope of its activities in this
field, and thus increase its already great value to the poultry interests of the
State; and secondly, to the thousands of Marylanders now engaged in one
branch or another of the Poultry Industry, who will find their efforts towards
advancement given added helps because of the new facilities now available
for research.

That the Poultry Industry merits the best assistance the State can supply
becomes evident when we consider that for the year of 1938 the value of
poultry and poultry products on hand and produced in the State exceeded
$18, 000, 000, certainly not an inconsiderable sum. An industry of such vast
scope must necessarily have its problems: —Problems, many of them, that can
be solved only by expert investigation and fact-finding by agencies equipped and
staffed for the purpose. Fortunately, here in our State University, under the
able direction of Dr. H. Clifton Byrd and his assistants, we have such properly-
equipped agencies, not only to tackle the Poultry Industry's problems, but
also to delve into the many and important questions that arise continually to
harass every field of production in the State.

Because so many of the investigations carried on in such buildings as we
are dedicating here today, are of such a nature that they neither require nor
invite publicity, a great proportion of our citizenry, I venture to say, have but
the slightest conception of the vast amount of valuable work that is being
done. Even though the State Budget may carry such an item, as it does for
instance, of a $5, 000 appropriation per year for the fight against poultry
disease, few residents of the State, except those actually engaged in raising
poultry or handling poultry products, stop to realize how tremendously neces-
sary such fact-finding agencies as these are in the life of today.