Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-12
LAUDS STATUS OF STATE.
Governors Inaugural Address Follows
Parade and Oath.
Special Dispatch to The sta

The third Inauguration of Albert G.
hltchie as Governor of Maryland took
place at noon today. 1t is the first
time Maryland ever elected a governor
Tor third term. Ceremonies began
AZ 10 o'clock, when a parade. headed
oy Chief of Police Richard B. Holiday
and staff, followed by the Naval
Academy band. swung into motion.
In the first section were National
Guard troops, under the command of
Col. Washington Bowie, marshal. The
second section consisted of the Demo
cratic clubs of Baltimore. The pa
raders marched to the State House,
where the guardsmen formed a cor
don, along which the governor, Mrs.
Albert Richie, his mother. and others
IN his immediate family passed to the
senate chamber, where the inaugural
was held.
One of the National Guard bands
played in front of the Executive Man
SION and the other at the east front
OF the Capitol. The chambers of the
Senate and the House of Delegates and
the corridors were decorated. Both
houses convened at 10:45 and remain
ed in session an hour when the mem
oers OF the House of Delegates were
escorted to the Senate chamber.
Judges of the Court of Appeals were
escorted there. At 1850 the inaugural
committee of the House and Senate
went to the Executive Mansion for the
governor. Field guns outside the
House reared the governors salute
OF 10 guns as the oath of Office was
administered by Judge Bond. 1mmedi-
ately after the taking of the oath the
governor went to the executive office
upstairs and the delegates retired to
their chambers; the Senate, however.
remained in session to confirm the
governors nomination of David NJ.
Weinbrenner, Sd, of Frederick, for
Secretary Of State. The Senate then
took a recess and the members went
to the House chamber, where the
governor delivered his inaugural ad.
dress.
States National Position.
Struggle of the States against Fed.
eral invasion and Marylands high
place in national development were
discussed by Gov. Richie. I'VE take
merited pride in the renown of our
hospitals and clinics for the tubercu-
lar; in a system of institutions for the
insane. in public health work. directed
by physicians of worldwide repute,
which has decreased sickness and NOR
tality rates and destroyed epidemics;
In liberalized workmen's compensa-
ZION laws anu UIlAllHS IdWSt III
penal institutions which afford In
mates useful and remunerative work.
Maryland was one of two pioneer
States in highway improvements, and
the Maryland farmer has not had to
face the acute problem of the Western
corn.belt farmer; yet here, as else.
where, there is not the proper equilib-
rum between the rewards Of industry
and farm. and the farmer is not
receiving his share Of the economic
surplus. The policy of no State can
solve this problem. but Maryland has
been aiding through her effective co.
operative policy in milk tobacco and
other products and her contributions
TO the improved marketing conditions
and the increased yield of crops.
"Our public school system has been
lifted from it's backward status 20 a
position OF recognized superiority.
All these and many other activities
are being pursued through an effec.
tive and modern form of government,
The reorganization act of 1922 CO.
ordinated the States numerous de-
partments and agencies and produced
O. governmental machinery which is
busines slike and up.to-date and
thoroughly adapted to the needs and
customs of our people.
Elections Cut Down.
s~The Fewer elections law elimi-
nated State elections every other
year. with q great economic and
financial saving. Appropriations are
made under an approved budget sys.
tenn, the first to be adopted in any
State; employees are engaged under
a State merit system which operates
without friction from any source; pur.
cfases are made through a central
purchasing bureau governed solely by
business principles.
From the contemplation of all this
eefective governmental handiwork. for
the continuance and development OF
which proper provision will be made
we turn now In our role as builders
~ the State to the task of re-estab
fishing the great natural resource OF
MARYLAND, the seafood industry of the
chesapeake Bay. This is the essen
tiai work before us at this session
for the industry has declined from Its
high estate almost to the vanishing
ooint. and the task is creative in the
<,,IIest sense, because of the perplex
ing difficulties and the human emo
lions it has always involved. The
rroblem challenges at once our bes
thought, our high resolve, and. above
eli our State pride. All these thing.
are COSLlHS iIpHSss vi tOAIHNs Dhk lICt
are all necessary to keep the Mary
isnd government abreast of the times
ard the needs of the times.
1--WE do not indeed protest agains
The ever-growing expenditures of thu
Federal Government wherever thes
supply the needs of the people or add
a. the resources or effectiveness o
The Nation. 1t is rather against thu
bureaucratic system of the Fedora
Government, remote from the people
With its burdensome, perplexing ant
nrving laws. lacking popular sane
ton its red tape and the general in
cnrnnetence Of subordinates perform
Ing duties a< responsibility; 1t i