Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-12-31
100000

vocational building 900
Dormitory ------------------1 100000
5000, 900
The total for the three colleges is
$4,000. Although the funds are pro-
vided by the millage tax, the legisla-
ture must approve the plans for the
structures before the expenditures
can be made. The above suggestions
are made by the presidents Of the in
stitutions direct to the legislature.
The state board has not yet announc-
ed which of the projects It will back.
An important feature OF the report
10 that the board recommends that
owing to the increased valuation of
property in Iowa the building miliage
tax can be reduced in 1917 from ten
twentieths OF mill to seventeenth
eths. The board is asking that this
tax be continued for period of FIVE
years. beginning 1917.
The millage tax for the Iowa State
college at Ames at the rate of one
half mill produces S377,500. The
board Is asking that this be continu-
cd.
The increase OF s3o,s75 in appropri-
atoms annually for the colleges Is
needed. the board says, because the
work OF the institutions IL constantly
broadening. They need all the ap-
preparations they have had in the
past and the half million in addition.
the report says. The increases asked
for are as follows:
Ames-s220,625 and $s4.550 special
appropriation. Total. $305.175.
Iowa City-S157.s0O for mainten-
ance, SIS. 100 for specials. Total, s227,-
100.
Cedar Falls-s6s,20o for mainten-
ance, $500 for specials. Total, s74.-
500.
The sum Of $75.s0O for specials
available in the past expires in 1915.
This deducted from the amounts of
increase asked for leaves total of
$530,S75.
Regarding the college for the blind,
which is now under the state board
of education, the officials in their re-
port declare that much of the blind
ness could have been prevented If the
doctors and midwives had done their
duty when the child was born. The
board declares that whatever can be
done by statutory enactment should
be attempted to save the eyesight Of
babies in the future.
Speaking Of the hog serum plant
at Ames, the board says that ALA
herds have been treated, and $4,000
600 of hogs saved to the farmers of
the state. With the simultaneous
treatment no deaths occurred in herds
Of sick hogs in rs per cent OF the
cases. The losses in herds under
going the treatment have been below
20 per cent, according to the report.
Uniformity Of Test Books.
The coming legislature will be call
ed upon to accept or reject bill for
the county uniformity OF textbooks.
At the recent meeting of the State
Teachers association legislative
committee was appointed. Superin-
tendent r. H. Stone Of Randolph, a
member OF the committee. is work
ing on a textbook bill. 1t provides
that where pupils move from one
county to another they may receive
the cash value OF their books before
they move, thus entailing no expense
for the purchase OF new books in the
new district.
To Prosecute Case.
The state executive council has
under consideration proposal to ap-
propriate $4,000 for the relief of the
state railroad commission in the
western advance freight rate case
and other causes requiring immedi-
ate attention. Attorney General Cos
son mas given an opinion that II is
legal to make the donations. One or
two members OF the council are not
yet convinced that the council has the
power. but II IL believed that the
sum Will be set aside for the commits
sion in few days. as requested.
Getting In Line for Reappolntment.
The committee clerks OF the last
general assembly are getting In line
expecting reappointment. Regardless
OF the recommendation OF the leisla.
tive committee on retrenchment and
reform that the number of committee
clerks and doorkeepers be cut down,
there Is a belief among the state Of
ficials that the Thirty-sixth general
assembly will do nothing along this
line, and that there will be as many
committee clerks and doorkeepers as
there were in previous sessions of the
assembly.