Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-14
PROGRAM AT
UNIVERSITY Will
GO ON AS PLANNED

DIR. Won KleinSmid, president of the
University of Arizona, upon returning
from a trip through the east. stated
to the student body that the building
program on which the university has
been working for the past year will DC
completed according to the plans orig
inally outlined.
Between the time of planning the
new $4,000 mining building, $780,
900 of which was donated by the min
! ing companies of the state, to the
n esent, the cost of labor and mate
rails has increased from 80 to go per
cent, and while the building was
originally designed to cost $4,000,
it was evident that 1t could not be
completed within that amount. The
mining companies of the state de.
sired to see that the building was
| finished without cutting down either
the size or quality, and have guaran-
| teed the necessary amount TO COM
plete the construction.
| The placing of the mines and engi-
neering building required the razing
of the old shops, necessitating new
and modern shop building and equip
ment, the money for which was also
donated. according to the recent an
nouncement of the mining companies
In speaking to the student body re.
garding the matter. DR.. Won Klein
Smid said:
1T is not unknown TO you that 1t
costs nowadays to build about so per
cent more than it would have cost
two years ago. The University of
Arizona is in the midst OF building
/ campaign. There has been pressure
brought to bear for a year to delay
our building program, and the atti
tude is justified in great measure.
There are some things, however,
which we cannot do, and one of these
is. that we cannot replace shops
which are torn down, and we cannot
hold laboratory classes in the open
air even in the sunny southwest.
Some kind of housing has to be pro
vided.
1T seems best, everything consid
cred, and in view of the fact that
much of our material was bought be-
fore the war was brought on, to
complete the building as soon as pos
sible. However, even in the south
west, we do not pick money off from
bushes, and it was necessary for me
to tell very pleasant story to some
of our good friends in the east, who
are interested in us and who sympa
thize with us in the condition which
we are and other institutions at this
time find themselves. In other words
q very safe margin with which we
were to complete our mines and en-
cheering building went glimmerine
with the declaration of war. We do
not believe in building that which we
would not be able to pay for. OF
course. we could always cut down. il
necessary, and the attitude of the in
stitution has been that We must dc
that sort of thing. However, if we
could get more funds, we would get
them. Ny trip to New York was tc
see whether or not the way might
be opened for us to go ahead ant
complete the building called for il
the original plans Well. we can.
81 cannot tell you in dollars and
cents-I wish | knew myself-but oul
rood friends are going to see US
through with this proposition.
"They themselve are not building
The great corporations who are inter
ested in our work are not buildin:
anything for themselves. Yet in thu
face of that handicap, and a tim'
when these corporations have beer
asked for hundreds of thousands ant
in some cases millions of dollars in
; the office of one of these concerns
the manager actually wrote his checl
for 100000 as the initial contribu
, ton to the recent Y. NJ. c. A. wa
work drive) ii was rather Difficult
task-they no doubht had the logic OF
| their side-I think. however. ha,
the Lord on mine"