The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
STOHRS SCHOOL.

The refusal of the legislative com
 mittee on agriculture to accede to Gov
 ernor Woodluffs request that cem- mission be created to inquire into the
 usefulness and efficiency of the Con-
 necticut Agricultural college (storrs school), from the point of view of it's possible development along larger lines if located elsewhere, again Illustrates what troublesome thing prejudice is.
 Governor Woodruff has manifested no
 hostility to the college. We do not un- derstand that he pretends to know much about it, What we take he
 wanted was such information as we all
 need to justify our support of the state
 in its biennial appropriations for its
 maintenance and enlargement.
 When the city of New . Haven meditated locating a hospital for con tagious diseases in the Twelfth ward the cry of pest house was successfully
 though unfairly raised In the case of
 the proposed inquiry into the affairs of
 the agricultural college, the cry was raised that it was the purpose of the cities of the state to take from the farmers their pet institution of learn l ing and give its assets to the older col- leges and universities of the state. No such purpose existed in the mind of | any person fayoring the governors s suggestion, but evidently it has re- ceived widespread credence. All that tanybody who has interested himself in 1 the proposed inquiry into the school desires is information as to what the 1 college is doing, what it is capable of doing, whether it is located to the best ladvantage and to what an extent the state is justified in increasing, if ne-
 cessary, the money given it each year Broadly speaking, this information is
 not in the possession of the general as- sembly, nor is 1t in the possession of
 the public from other than interested
 sources. The farmers of the state, speaking of them as class, are as ig-
 norant of its achievements as the rest
 of us. But few of them send their
 sons and daughters to it for an educa- 1 ton, but when it comes to supporting
 the state in its biennial appropriations,
 their representatives in the general
 assembly are found voting in the af- Ifrmative There are more farmers
 sons in the three universities and col- lleges of the state than have ever en- rolled themselves in the Connecticut Agricultural college, and the refusal of
 the general assembly, acting under the
 orders of the rural voters, to have an explanation offered for that phenome-
 non only adds to the timeliness and
 justice of the governors desire for l kFlOWlSug6 WHICH lS kloNlcu6Ss
 If it can be established, and it can
 be established if it is a fact, that the service along educational lines given 1 by the Connecticut Agricultural college 1 is of character to benefit the farmers of the state and raise their standard of living, there will be no question raised
 of the ability of the state to support it. There has never been any disposition on the part of the dwellers in the cit l ies to deprive the dwellers in the country towns of single thing they want. As the sources of the states revenue, they simply asked for inform ation when the proposition involved heavy expenditures, which may not be needed in a given case. They would l like information now of the actual achievements of storrs school and of it's purposes. The refusal of the gen. eral assembly to get that information
 hurts only those who blindly with
 hold it,
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