Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-07
GALVESTON NEWS coNcuRs.

For once the Galveston News sets
It's stamp OF approval on the work Of
the A. G. NJ. College, and comes out
strongly for liberal appropriations
for the extension department that It's
great work may go forward unham'
pered and without curtailment
II not only approves the work OF
the college, but takes Governor Fer
guson sharply to task for minimizing
The work OF the extension depart
ments OF both the A. & VI. College
and the State University, and his ut
terances in opposition to generosity
in the appropriations for these de-
partments. The News says:
"The Senate Finance Committee
has made President Bizzell the happi'
est man in Texas according TO his
own admission, by putting into It's
draft OF the appropriation bill several
items which Governor Ferguson had
frowned out OF the Agricultural and
Mechanical Colleges budget. These
are. apparently, in every case the full
amounts asked. Something over SSOoL
900 Is provided for buildings and
about 100000 for the extension de-
partment. DR.. Bizzell deserves his
happiness, and we hope II will not be
taken as an evidence that we grudge
him any part OF II when we remind
him that the situation is one in which
the Legislature proposes and the Gov
ernor disposes. The Governor has
already expressed himself as being
opposed to any generosity In dealing
with the extension department, but
we believe that If he can be induced
10 read Mr.. Ousley's plain recital oil
what that department has been DONG
he will find compelling reason to re-
verse his own attitude. How anyone
can ,ount any expenditure for such
work as that as an expense is beyond
our comprehension. II is really an
investment. and one cannot question
the profitableness of it without COM
hitting himself to the proposition
that the farmers OF Texas have moth
ing to learn from science"
The News, however, laments the
fact that the same largeness Of view,
with respect to the University, does
not obtain with the members OF the
Legislature as for the A. G. VI. Col
lege. The News is inclined to attrib-
ute this condition to the size OF the
brain pan of the Legislators. We do
not think so. In our opinion, the
condition is que entirely to the work
of the University and its overzealous
friends. zone OF whom the News is
which"
The University and its partisans
have waged relentless war for sew
eral years to utterly destroy the A. Il
M. College. The college is closer to
the people than any other institution
in the State and therefore the most
popular Out of resentment on the
part Of the people of tie State over
the efforts of the University and its
friends to destroy the college, has
come the condition complained of by
the News. This, and this alone, is
the cause, and not the size OF the
brain pans of the members Of the
Legislature. It is only crystalized
public sentiment speaking through
the Legislature. On this point the
News says:
I'VE should like to hope that the
Legislature will manifest the same
largeness of view when it comes to
deal with the University. But It is
not easy to support that hope. There
are several incidents which suggest,
If they do not prove, that the Univer-
sity Is under a cloud Of prejudice.
Consider, for example, the proposal
that an investigation be undertaken
to determine how many hours the pro-
fessors of the University are in the
habit of working We venture to say
that there is no professor Of the Uni
versity who does not work at least
three times as long every day as the
gentlemen who have proposed this in
vestigation. And II we could compare
the cerebrations of the PROFESSIONAL
mind with those of the minds Of these
gentlemen, the result might be made
to explain many Of the mishaps and
fatalities that are found so abundantly
in the legislative output. But is il
rational to hope for much from body
which includes in its membership
men who measure the labor of pro
fessor by the minutes he spends in
his class room?"