The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-15
THE STATE UNIVER SITY


THE STATE UNIVER SITY
This university is now in competition
with all the institutions for higher learn
ing in Southern California. All our in
situations are supported by private do
nations and by students dues, while the
university receives the public money and
the public taxes from Southern as we'll
as from Northern California. The
benefit to Southern California Is little.
if any greater in the existence of the
than in those Of Yale, Harvard, Cornell,
Princeton or any other American col
lege or university. We might say, In
deed, that Stanford supported from
donations. is of quite as much service to
the community as the Berkeley univar-
sity, supported by taxes or state bonds.
We say this with the greatest respect for
the State university in the north. What
we call attention to Is that this costly In
stitution is too far away to be in any
true sense a part of our life in Southern
California. Southern California has
colleges and universities of its own.
These should receive the support of any
public taxes in this section for such pur-
poses.
The next legislature will be asked to
appropriate at least halt a million for
grand new buildings at Berkeley, and 20
Inappropriate three hundred thousand
dollars for the new affiliated colleges at
San Francisco. This means, in all,
nearly million dollars Doubtless this
will be merely preliminary appropria-
ton. to be followed by others to COM
plete and then to carry on the proposed
splendid buildings and establishment
The question has been asked our
farmers, viticulturists and forestry men
what they have gained from this dis
tant northern university's agricultural
college annex. This college is the only
one having direct dealings with South
ern California. The answers are not In
a single case favorable to the utility of
the college. Mr.. Richard Grid says that
they advised him that he could not grow
sugar beets at Chino. Think Of what
would have resulted in the loss to the
community had Mr.. Grid followed such
advice. Mr.. f. c. Bickowsky Of the
great Sunny Slope winery and estate,
says that this college introduced vines
from infected districts in France and
has thus caused the destruction of mil
lions Of dollars of property in the raisin
market and wine grape vineyards
These gentlemen In Berkeley have
quarrels from Santa Barbara to San
Diego, and with men like Grid, Ellwood.
Cooper. Bichowsky, etc.
This agricultural college is apparently
worse than useless, and does damage
where it might do good 1t has our for
estry interests in charge. yet not word
on forest fires has escaped any of its
officers. Their whole interest seems to
be centered in keeping our citizens in
Southern California from any advant-
age in our forest station. In view of
this condition: we would suggest that
before our legislative representatives
from Southern California consent to the
large appropriations to be asked for in
the interest of Berkeley they secure To-
cal control for our local, industrial,
scientific work
In all probability we can obtain also
our share of the large federal appropria-
ton which now goes to the Berkeley col
lege of agriculture. This fantastic
agricultural college, with its self-praise
men, political lobbyists, large salaries
and one and a half graduates, is
mountain in labor that brings forth
mouse. Southern California should he
freed from this remote college control
and mistakes in our local industries
What we want is local control in our
scientific agricultural work. This
should be practical with local men TO
whom farmers and fruit men can
go direct with their questions
Berkeley is too far off to be use
full to US. Our farmers institutes,
agricultural, chemistry, entomology
and all our scientific work in agriculture
should be done here. with local head
quarters preferably in a central loca-
California and easy equally for the
scientific man to visit the point of inter-
est; our soils, crops and climate are Pc
culiar to this section, and our taxes
should go not too far up and to hostile
northern men, but to our own scientists
for our own work.
THE MAN OUT OF A JOB