The Ely miner., 1916-12-01
BOARD OF REGENTS
TO ASK MILLIONS
TO PRESENT BUDGET ESTIMATE
OF NEARLY $4,000, 900 TO
STATE LEGISLATURE.
ASKS OPINIONS ON STATE AID
superintendent of Education, Sends
Circular Letter to School Heads
Wants Teachers to Advise Leg
islators az to Own Attitude.

With budget estimate of nearly
$4.O0O,O00 to present to the Legisla-
ture, the University of Minnesota
Board of Regents has determined on a
retrenchment policy which will include
strict economy in every department,
and restriction of enrolment wherev-
er possible rather than to increase the
teaching staff. vrc45 aI
More than score Of requests and
petitions for new buildings, increas.
ed equipment, increased salaries and
enlargement of teaching stats were
heard by the board, but only few
Of them received encouragement
Among the expenditures the board
looked on favorably, however, are:
contagious Diseases to provide more
patients for clinical study.
Establishment of a separate depart
initial expenditure of $4,000.
creation of an associate professor
ship of railroad transportation.
tional training In lines other than
teaching.
Enlargement of the Industrial work
OF OF the coiiege OF chemistry to meet
the war.
Additions to the university library
and the engineering research labora-
tory.
Schulz Questions Teachers.
Questions as to the policy regarding
state aid to school to be advocated by
school authorities before the next leg
islature are asked in letter mailed
to superintendents and directors by C.
G. Schulz, state superintendent of edu-
cation.
Mr.. Schulz cites that there has been
a shortage in the state aid for each
Of the last two years as appropriated
by the legislature. The failure of the
lawmakers to appropriate up to the
full amount for high, graded, rural and
consolidated schools and for special de-
partments in all these is explained by
Mr.. Schulz as due to a desire to re.
strict the tax rate. The amount avail
able for state aid the last two years
was. $3.S25,000, as against $4,77S.71S
necessary, if the full amounts earned
by the schools had been paid.
The state superintendent asks school
officers to advise legislators in their
districts as to their own attitude to-
ward the questions.
The move follows the recent dis.
tribution of $1,942,OOO of state aid
which, although representing the
largest single disbursement in the his.
tory of state business, was only 70 per
cent of the total intended.
"It is of the utmost Importance
that we should have a stable, pro.
gressive and expanding public school
policy in Minnesota" Superintendent
Schulz states in a circular.
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Governor Names Delegates.
Governor Burnquist has just appoint
ed twenty-four Minnesota delegates to
the National Rivers and Harbors Con.
gress on December to at Washing
ton. The list of delegates contains
these names:
st. Paul-P. T. Glidden, Paul Doty
G. j. McConville, J. w. Cooper, A. J.
Krank, George Lambert and H. T.
Quinlan.
Minneapolis-W F. Decker, J. c.
Andrews, j. L. Record, Charles D
Gould, Theodore Wold, F. G. Win
ston, r. w. Chadbourn and S. C.
Woodruff.
Delegates named from other Mime
sofa cities are: w. Hayes Laird, Wi
mona; James K. Grondahl, Red Wing;
w. c. Masterman, Saltwater; E. C
Anthony, Hastings; J. E. Reynolds
Mankato; Mile Bunnell and A. c.
Weiss, Duluth; A. H. Reed, Glencoe
and j. M. Elder, Brainerd.
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Seed Wheat Shortage Seen.
The farmer who is forced to buy seed
wheat this winter will feel the effects
of the prevailing high prices of farm
products. Though milling wheat is
bringing close to So bushel, the man
whose own product is too poor for seed
purposes will have to pay as high as So
or even higher in getting a supply else
where. The corn crop. late in starting
rounded under favorable weather ant