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Maryland, was this not resolved with your approval,

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cooperation and perhaps it might have originated in

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the office of the Superintendent?

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DR. PULLEN: That was done before, with

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Governor Ritchie and Mr. Cook and other people in the

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State, and it started with, and it started 100 years

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ago with Dr. VanBockler and Horace Manns, but it was

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written into law in 1922; but Dr. Goodnough who was the

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chairman of the commission who wrote the school laws of

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Maryland, which are considered as one of the finest in

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the country, spelled out the protection against the

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manipulation of that by anyone.

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Let's go back to government again. I agree

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with Thomas Jefferson when he said that all government

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must be founded upon suspicion. Everybody, statesmen,

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every individual elected or appointed in the public

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schools should be under suspicion by the people who put

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them there. That is, I think, a truism, almost, in

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government, not predicated upon trust, but predicated

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upon suspicion that the frailties of human nature may

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cause him to do things that are not in the interest of