The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-10-02

Governor of Maryland
State House
Annapolis, Maryland
Dear Governor Lane:
Your letter of September %, 1947
has been received and the contents
carefully noted. In order to give the
proper answer to your letter and to
the report of The Griffenhagen and
Associates, it is necessary to go back
and start from the beginning of the
survey. When the Board decided to
have the survey made, Mr.. Ronnie
Of the Department of Budget and
Procurement called me and said you
had asked him to inform me of the
action of your Board before the
newspapers published it. He could
not locate me the night before the
newspapers published the story but
he did call me at A. M. the same
morning, after / had seen the news
papers. He asked me to call you
and put call in your office about
$50 A. M. through my operator.
Your office said you were debating
and would call me later. l stayed
in my office until Noon when my
operator called and said your office
had called and said that you had
gone away for two weeks. l then
wrote the following letter and sent
copies to the Honorable Hooper S.
Hiles, Honorable James J. Lacy and
Mr.. Joseph McCusker:
Being unable to reach you by
telephone this A. M. l am taking
this means of thanking you and, at
the same time, congratulating you
and your Board, for making the
move in securing an outside agency
to survey the Title Department of
this office
stated to Mr.. Kirkman and Mr..
Rennie, when Mr.. Schroeder, Mr..
McGeeney, Mr.. Noppinger and 1
were in his Office few weeks ago,
that thought there could and
should be some improvement in our
Title Department.
think that your Board has used
very good judgement in securing an
impartial agency to make the sur
vey, and l want to assure you that I
will be very glad to cooperate with
them in every way to improve our
service to the public
Kindest regards, am
Going back to the survey, two
gentlemen from the Griffenhagen
and Associates, with Mr.. Riegel of
the Budget and Procurement De
partment, came in my office and
stayed less then twelve minutes
with me and a very short time in
the entire building in making their
survey. / thought they would be
with us a week or more instead of
a few hours. / called Mr.. D. Mar
shall Schroeder, the Deputy Com
missioner into my office and asked
him to take these gentlemen around
and tell the Department Heads to
give them all of the assistance pos
sible and which I understand from
their reports, was done.
shall make every effort to carry
out your orders 1000 with your
help and the help of the Budget
Director and the Employment Com
missioner.
In your letter you quoted various
deficiencies. Section A you quoted
as follows:
(a) Lack of continued planning
directed to the adoption and per-
lection of procedures for the work
involved resulting in poor utiliz-
alton of space and personnel.
For your information, before the
War 1 tried to correct this condition
in our building by building the adj
dition that we are now completing.
Of course, this could not be started
during the war but right after the
War and as soon as the War Pro-
duction Board opened their office,
/ personally called on Mr.. Carmen
of the War Production Board, pro-
duced facts and figures together
with pictures showing the crowded
conditions under which we were OPP
Grating. / showed Mr.. Carmen that
we were working in rooms with no
ventilation, in halls. on balconies
and during the tag rush in the rest
rooms. Mr.. Carmen told me that he
would give us every consideration
and, for your information, the APP
plication for this new building was
No 8 on the War Production Board
list and was approved within two
weeks. I personally, worked long
hours with Mr.. Fletcher to get the
price down so that we could build
and keep within our budget.
It is true we have stock, filing
cabinets and machinery stored in