Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-05-14

many instances 10 lnstiIuuonS 'oa"y
overlooking with funds, amid local
population able to put up $1,000 or
So, 1000 where the people OF Kansas
could put up 81. Hence fail to see
the policy of raising the uproaroasly
exhilerating excuse Of spunk or indie
pendence on the part Of Kansas
How are the UNCONVENTIONAL schools
in Kansas sustained As they are
now organized they would not live
over fifteen minutes If they depended
on what they obtained from the peo-
pie Of Kansas. OF course If all the
business they do were concentrated
| in one, two or three, this number
might be supported. These insdtu-
tions are kept alive through frequent
trips east by their presidents, solicit
ing from givers Of like faith, constant
drumming for building funds endow-
ments, and oitentimes for running
expenses. One school spending $l4,'
900 year on 221 students. keeps its
president east begging three-fourtns
Of his time. They get largely from
small givers, who do not figure in the
annual lists now regularly made up,
and to which l. have referred. Their
managers are working on faith, and
they will win out, just as similar in
stitutions we're founded and have
succeeded. But the statements by
Kansas newspapers that our own peo'
pie are able to support them, and that
they do not want outside help, must
be interesting stumbling blocks to
those in charge who are constantly
seeking aid they cannot obtain in the
, state. 1t is piece of senseless bragg
adocio that can only do harm. In
connection with the statement that
Mr.. Carnegie has recently given
3 5000, 900 to Booker Washington'S
8 school it is also made known that
, 81, 900, 900 more is required for en-
t dowment.
/ Well, what OF the denominations
g schools-what do they amount TOT
. It is hardly worth while working ou'
s the figures for the period ending june
s 80, 1902. l have them for 1901, and
4 they will illustrate by comparison
2 just as well. Tho State University
n has so professors and teachers Will
: l., 200 students, and $9S0,O0O worth
o Of property; it has an endowment
r fund Of $4,000. For the biennial
q period, June 80, 1sO2.0S, the legisla
y ture gave the University $1S5,OoI
!. each wear for salaries; for buildings
It sS5, 900 in 1902, and $4,000 in 1908
:. The State Normal has 2, $50 students
o "A teachers, and 100000 of property
j. 1t has an endowment fund Of 5000, OO|
i increasing at the rate Of $4,000 Pc
Q year, and the legislature Of 1901 CAV
l. s46, 900, for 1902 and $lO7, 900 for 1908
= The State Agricultural college has b.
8 teachers, with 1,400 students, AM
q 1856, 900 worth Of property 1t ha
n an endowment fund Of 100000, an
10 the legislature gave it $117,SSO TO
n 1902, and s62, 2SO for 1908. All to
2 pether these three'main schools OF tn
r. state have ia teachers and an attend
n ance Of 4,75O pupils to show for th
IS enormous amount Of public funds e1
pended. The legislature Of 1908 CAV
to these three state schools for th
biennial period ending June 80, 1905
q total Of $616,672.
These are twenty-iour denomin'
tionul schools in Kansas, emPloyin
400 teachers, attended by $500 stu
dents, and owning $2,s55,4S5 Of prof.
erty and endowment. This PrOpert
is the result Of forty years Of begging
local donations and rise in valueI
These schools are maintained BY si1
teen difference religious organization
Eight Of these schools have anon
them only ts12,5OO endowment fund
besides some land, amount not stste'
j. In an average life time Of tWenty-or
Il years, as far back IS data can be o.
tanned, these denominationsl schoO
I have graduated 1859 pupils. As Z
evidence Of how they are gaining the
graduates In 1900 numbered 40
nearly three times the average Of Il
I.-..t--ona vaara In compArief