The Elbert County tribune., 1909-01-14


namely. medicine. dentistry and phar-
macy. This division of the University
will add materially to the expense OF
running the University, but will not
add to the efficiency of the Institution
as the servant of the people
Second: The field at Denver Is now
adequately occupied and ought not to
be entered merely to crafty whlms or
jealousies. The University of Denver
covers the field adequately in medicine
and in dentistry and the Young Mems
Christian Association covers the field
adequately in pharmacy with its new
school of pharmacy. There are in Den
yer more than twenty-five hospitals
and asylums for the care of the sick
and the poor and the defective and the
dependent Only one of these estab-
lishments is sustained by public taxa
ton, namely, the County Hospital II
is generally admitted that the state
can not do much of this work as well
as 1t is done by the private enterprise
of the philanthropic. OF course 1t is
possible for the state to appropriate
enough money to break up all this
beautiful work which is done for the
poor by the University of Denver Why
not also start in to break up all the
work that is done by private enterprise
In the twenty-five or more hospitals
and asylums in Denver?
Third: The number of students for
whom all this appeal is made is not
large. Last year we had at Boulder In
the medical department fiity-two stu
dents. of which twenty-six were stu
dents from Colorado and twenty-six
were students from outside Colorado.
This year we have fifty-three students
in medicine at Boulder. of which TWEEN
| ty-two are from Colorado and thirty
one are from outside Colorado. The
class which entered in September last
has five students from Colorado and
eleven from outside, insist that we
have no moral or legal obligation to
| give a medical education to students
from outside Colorado who pay a
| triiiing fee of about $500 for what costs
us $l,249.
Fourth: The tax payers through
out tne state Will not likely assent to
the proposed change in the constitu-
| tion to make this removal possible.
| The people have not shown a very
| lively interest in changing their con.
| stitution. We who represent the State
University will find chilling recep-
ton when we go out to speak to the
| would better make a fine clinic at
Boulder, as the University of Michigan
does at Ann Arbor and as the State
University of Iowa does at Iowa City,
and keep faith with the philanthropic
| people who are now maintaining three
| free dispensarles in Denver and also
keep faith with the people who have
| invested their money in Boulder. This
is not suggested as plan which might
| be described as generous and concilia-
tory. but 1t is suggested as plan that
is just and right
1t was my pleasure to approve every
appropriation which was made by the
Sixteenth General Assembly for all
| four of the state educational institu-
tons. | knew that the state would give
to these four institutions for the bi-
| ennial period, from the special appro.
| printions which | was approving and
from the mill levy, approximately one
| million dollars In that list | approved
the special appropriation of 100000
for the State University. | also ap-
| proved the appropriation of $1,000 for
the geological survey by the professor
of Geology at Boulder. There was a
gentlemens agreement on that sub
| ject which needed to be made on ac-
count OF the vigorous protest, against
the approval of that bill, which was
made by the Denver Chamber of Com
merce and the Colorado Scientific So
ciety. The gentlemen's agreement was
that, If | would approve that bill, the
| question of the location of the State
Geologist would be permitted to come
| up de novo with the Seventeenth Gen
| eral Assembly. This should have been
stated in the biennial report. but we
have not syllable about that subject.
| On the contrary it seems to be taken
for granted that the State Geologist is
| located at Boulder for all time. think
| the State Geologist should be located
in the State House, with a friendly
| bond with all the schools In the state.
If he is connected with any institu-
| tion he ought to be connected with
| the School Of Mines. II he is connected
| with any department 1t ought to be
with the department of the Commits.
| sioner of Mines.
The State Normal School at Greeley
| has made fine record of achieve
ment with 1,34S graduates down to
this time. These graduates have been
worth to the state much more than
they lave cost. The total amount of
money given to the State Normal from
the state treasury down to this date
is s1.D20.000. The value OF the plant
is s471 200. The net expense of the
school, therefore. above the cost of
the plant has been s54S,300. That
means that each one of our 1.348 Nor
NAL school graduates has cost the
state s407. The advantage to Greeley
in having the Normal School in that
beautiful town is very great OF the
one thousand young people and chill
dren who have enjoyed the enrichment
Of the State Normal during the last
year. about 400 are in the practice
school department. that is, children
and youth from kindergarten through