The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-07

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the board points out. is necessary
to take care OF the rapidly grow
ing enrolment. which in the past two
years has risen between Is and Is per
cent in the various school approx
mately 20 per cent. New teachers will
be needed. extra equipment and ap-
paratus, which cost more. on account Of
the war. must be purchased, and salary
increase must be provided. in order to
keep the institutions at their present
standard Of efficiency.
Current Expenses.
This proposed increase for current
expenses is distributed as follows:
Institution 1916 1916.
University of Kansas. .s9O.ooo S20ooo
Agricultural college ........... $1,000 5000
State Normal school-No increase.
Manual Training Normal. 1000 10000
Fort Hays Normal. ...... 5000 10000
School for the Deaf. $500 $500
School for the Blind. ESQ ESQ
School of Mines-No increase
School of Medicine and State
Fort Hays Experiment station~No in
Decrease of $500 each year on account
of increased receipts Of grain and sale
of live stock.
Dodge City Experiment station-No IN
crease.
Garden City Experiment
sta.-Fo. purchasing dairy
Tribune Experiment sta.-No increase.
Decrease of $500 in 1916. Half of sta
tion's expense is appropriated by county
under law.
state Fish Observation-Disclosures by fees.
Last year the board took ST, 1926 from
the maintenance fund OF the university
for public service work, and it asks the
Legislature to add to this sum $500
for 1915 and 49, 500 for 1916 This
, in correspondence study. distribution Of
package libraries, assistance furnished
women's clubs, and expert service rem
dered cities and towns through the
municipal bureau. 1t will also make
possible the continuance of Merchants
Week, Journalism Week. Criminology
and Charity Congresses, and similar
events as annual institutions.
While Illinois, Ohio. Massachusetts,.
and other states pay from $4,000 to
$11O, 900 each year to maintain labora-
tories for board Of health work. Kan
sas utilized her university equipment
and faculty and students. This service
also includes the sanitary engineering
work of the state, inspection OF weights
and measures, preparation OF weather
reports, the conduct of surveys, and
other activities Of the state. The board
asks 81, 800 to carry on this work.
With the heavy demands made upon
the agricultural experiment station by
the farmers Of the state the lines of
experimental work must of necessity be
increased EACH year the WOTk UccOIlcS
more costly because experiments as
they progress require more apparatus
as well as more time on the part Of
the scientists. The increase Of $4,000
recommended for each of the following
two years will be only sufficient, the
board says, to continue the work now
in progress without loss of efficiency.
While the extension department of
the Agricultural college is performing
effective service for boys and girls
through clubs, for housewives through
demonstration schools, and for farmers
through institutes, movable schools.
and short courses, the appropriations
made by the federal government will
j enable the institution to carry on ex-
tension work during the next two years
without increase of appropriations. The
federal money available is that allotted
to the state by the Smith Lever act.