The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-01
MOORES' VIEWS ON
THE COLLEGE BILL
Saws He Believes Provisions of
H. B. No. Is are for Best
Interests of the State
Courier-Reporter,
Kennewick, Washington,


To the Editor:
I have received many letters during
the past few days in regard to what
action should take on House Bill No.
Is. a bill which defines courses of
study to be followed in the Univer-
sity and the Washington State College.
The Commercial club has gone on re-
cord, instructing me to oppose the bill,
and I have received no less than fifty
letters also instructing me to do the
same.
/ noticed also by your paper, that
your Live Wire editor requests all
those having the interest of the Wash
ington State College at heart, to write
me and urge me to use all my efforts
to defeat House Bill No. Is. Person
ally / would like to carry out the wish
es of my constituents, but I am sure
that House Bill No. Is and the pro-
visions therein have been misrepre-
sented to the people of my district.
/ have, as yet, to receive letter which
discusses the real issues of the bill,
and for the benefit of those who I am
unable to answer fully on these de-
tails, I ask space in your paper to
state my position which is at present
very favorable toward the bill. For
this reason I am going to give you, in
synopsis, the contents of the bill, or
it's relation to the Washington State
College, and also it's relation to the
tax payers of this state, together with
the efficiency which should be demand
ed of patrons Of both institutions.
The bill takes away from Washing
ton State College the courses in Chem
ical Engineering, course in Archi-
lecture, and course in Forestry. The
first of these courses is in a large
sense an industrial course which de-
mands practical application in COM
munities where there is manufacture
ing, and it also involves a great deal
Of research work. Should this course
be on the east side or the west side
Of the mountains, where practically
all the manufacturing is carried on?
Should the course in Architecture be
conducted in Seattle, where docks and
sky-scrapers and engineering feats
are being performed every day, or in
town the size Of Pullman where no
practical demonstration can be given,
and nothing but a collection Of dry
figures and unrelated theories remain
in the students heads after gradua-
ton? -ea..'.e -. -. ....-
Can the subject of Forestry be pro-
perly studied at Pullman where there
are no forests nor saw-mills to give
the students practical demonstra-
ton? In these features the Pullman
students would be as competent to
practice their learned professions by
taking a course in a correspondence
school. To my mind there is no rea-
son why the tax payers should be
forced to pay for this duplication,
when in these courses the State Col
lege could graduate nothing but few
half-baked, impractical practitioners
in their line. And regardless of what
any State College partisan
writes me, and no matter what he
threatens, I will always vote for a
single course in the State of Washing
ton in these subjects. They are ex-
tremely expensive courses to conduct,
and the state of Washington is doing
well to support one course in each of
these lines. The question Of where
these courses should be conducted is
not debateable-there is no answer to
the question but the University of
Washington.