The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15
STATE NORMAL NEEDS.
Regents Ask for $432, AGA for the
Three Schools.

The biennial report of the regents
of the State Normal school indicates
that the three state schools under the
control of this board need appropria-
lions amounting to $432, 464.5O for the
coming biennial period. More than
half of this amount is asked for the
State Normal itself, at Emporia. The
appropriation asked for that institu-
buildings. a science building and a
gymnasium for men which accounts
for $4,000 of this amount. It also
takes about 100000 a year for SAL
aries and expenses of the State Nor
NAL. 1t is recommended, also, that
an engine and dynamoS and boilers to
run them be purchased, which will
cost $12, 900. The state is now paying
81, 200 a year for light and power
which can be saved by, investing this
$4,000.
The Kansas State Normal is one of
the largest and most successful in
situations of its kind in the world,
which is the reason for the large ap-
preparation called for. The present
gymnasium is said to be large enough
only for the women students, and an
other is needed for the men. A science
building is also badly needed, accord
ing to the report of the regents, in
order to keep up with the growth of
the institution. The courses of study
in the school are now all four years in
length, and as a rule the graduates
go into public school work in Kansas,
increasing the efficiency of the public
school system. 1t Is stated that up
wards of a thousand graduates of the
State Normal are now in active school
work in Kansas.
The appropriation asked for by the
Fort Hays normal, sometimes known
as the Western Normal school, which
was recently established for the bene-
fit of the western part of the state, is
$4,000. OF this it requires $4,000 a
year for salaries and expenses, and
t., oil 60 -far~,1
A large appropriation has been
asked for for the Pittsburg Manual
Training school, and it has also been
recommended by State Auditor Wells.
greater part of this is for a building
for the school. 1t was supposed when
the last legislature located the school
at Pittsburg the people of that place
would give the state a building for the
school, but the building provided was
one of the city school buildings which
the city now needs. The school has
done good work since it was started
shortly after the last legislature, and it
is now recommended that $4,000 be
appropriated for building for it,
with $4,000 more for equipment. 1t
costs $17,500 year to run the school,
including the summer school. Last
year the people of Pittsburg advanced
$1,114.50 to pay the expenses of the
summer school, and the regents asked
that an appropriation be made to re-
There is likely to be some discus
sion over the question of putting up a
new building at Pittsburg. Some
members of the legislature believe the
states educational institutions should
be more concentrated wherever pos
Sible, and there may be disposition
to locate the manual training school
at Emporia as a part of the State
Normal proper instead of making a
big investment at Pittsburg. Consid-
cradle manual training work has
necessarily been done at Emporia for
a number of years past and it is
argued that it is properly a part of the
State Normal course. On the other
hand, the people of southeastern Kan
sas believe that they are entitled to a
state educational institution and that
they should be allowed to keep the
Manual Training school at Pittsburg.
There is one very small item in the
budget of appropriations asked for
for each of the three schools on which
asked to bind books and periodicals
for the State Normal, 500 for the
Fort Hays normal, and $50 for the
Pittsburg school. The binding that is
sought to be done is the rebinding of
library books and the binding of cur
rent magazines, scientific publications
and such newspapers as are deemed
worthy of preservation. Up to the
present administration this work has
been done by the state printer and has
come out of the appropriation for
state printing and binding. The pres
ent printing board, consisting of Sec
rotary of State Burrow, Treasurer
Kelly and Attorney General Coleman
wishing to keep down State Printer
Clarks work as much as possible, re-
fused to allow this work done, and the
state auditor ruled that it could not
be paid for out of the current expense
funds of the schools, therefore it has
gone undone. This winter the regents
are asking for specific appropriations
to cover this object.