The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-23
BOWMAN IS SATISFIED.
Wanted to Cooperate With Schools
on Appropriations.

The University of Kansas, or some
of the deans, are doing a lot of kick
ing about the appropriations for the
school for the next two fiscal years.
The agricultural college and the nor
NAL school have not offered any OBJ
jections to what the legislature did for
them. The state board of control.
which has nine charitable Institutions
under it's charge, has not offered a
single objection to the appropriations
made to the different institutions I'M
der its charge, although the appro-
priations were cut more for the char
table institutions than for the educa-
tional ones
H. c. Bowman, chairman of the
board of control, was asked today if
the board felt that it had been treated
unfairly when the legislature reduced
its appropriations. NO" he said. I'VE
are managing these institutions the
best We can with what the legislature
gives us. The charitable institutions
take care of the unfortunate people of
this state. The educational Institutions
look after the needs of the more for
tunate ones. There ought to be some
plan of cooperation. between the edu-
cational and the charitable institutions
need to do the best work
Before the legislature began 1 Of
fered to make the appropriation for
the charitable institutions the same as
would do the same. Each class of in
situations would retain the same basis
as determined then. That would give
enough money to keep the charitable
institutions in first class shape at all
times ard it was thought that the ap-
preparations of that year would take
care of the needs of all the educa-
tional institutions also.
This was not done. The charitable
institution appropriations were reduced
1 xl.s Ill ID
tional institutions were increased over
two years ago and four years ago
Last June wrote to Chancellor Strong
of the university urging cooperation
between the different educational and
the charitable institutions and explain
ing to him why there was not an alb
solute1y fair division of appropriations
between the educational and the char
table institutions"
The letter to Chancellor Strong fol-
lows:
Dear Mr.. Strong: thank you
very much for your letter of the 20th
instant, and will be glad to show the
same to the different members of our
board. We will be glad to cooperate
with you and to assist you in every way
we can in carrying out the object and
purpose of the university, but at the
same time we want you to cooperate
with the charitable institutions. In
the superintendent's report of the Boys
Industrial school for the biennial
period ending June so. 1904, which
was written one year before we took
charge of the state institutions. is the
following:
we have no fault to find with the
generosity which has placed at the
disposal of the various educational in
stitutions of the state hundreds OF
thousands of dollars These institu.
tions are worthy and deserving OF
every dollar that they have received,
but thew are for and patronized by the
wealthy, the fortunate, and ambitious,
for whose patronage scores OF rival
institutions are bidding. The Boys
Industrial school is for the poor, the
unfortunate, the Maynard boys to
whom fate, in the form OF grinding
poverty or unwholesome environment
or the bonds of heredity, denies an
equal chance with the more favored
ones in the race of life. Notwith-
standing all this the wealth of the
state, and its generosity, and the fur
Their fact that the school has been beg
cling for assistance year by year, not
a single square foot of land has been
given to it since its foundation. and
for twenty years not a cubic inch of
floor space to the living apartments.
The dormitory in the main building,
never intended to be used as such, and
repeatedly condemned as being utter
" unsuited for the purpose, will be
uninhabitable before the expiration of
another two years unless immediate
stems be taken to make the necessary
repairs The buildings themselves are
obsolete as we'll as out of repair, and
additional room is imperative If the
institution meets the demands made
upon it.. To give proper accommoda-
ton, two new cottages should he erect
ed with modern improveme nts, and
, sufficient money should be appro-
priated for repairs bn the buildings
now standing
''The other institutions, felt the same
way The feeling became more intense
when the legislature of 1905 failed to be
as generous with what are called the
state charitable institutions as they
were with the state educational insti-
tutions Then came along the legis-
lature of 1907 which increased the APP
preparations for current expenses to the
educational iT1Sfifufi0T1S