Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-01-25

mand was SO great that it was decid-
| ed to do SO.
Mr.. Smith stated that the hospital is
running behind at the rate Of 500 per
month. and 1t is expected that the
association will get in it's new hospital
building some time this spring.
Maine General Hospital
! Rep. Edgar +. Rounds Of Portland
addressed the committee, saying that
| ne appeared at that hearing not as
Rep. Rounds but as plain Edgar E.
Rounds" The. appropriation asked for
is for improving the grounds at the
Maine General hospital at Portland
by grading and fencing and the re-
solve calls for $4,000
Eastern Maine Orphans Home
The Eastern Maine Orphans Home
of Bangor was represented by Rep.
Edward p. Murray of Bangor. who eX-
planned the work of the institution,
and the need of enlarging its accom-
moda tions. The institution does not
ask any appropriation for putting up
q building or buildings, however. but
for increased maintenance. The apprO-
priation two years ago was $500 year.
The appropriation asked is s2500 a
year for each of the next two years.
| The digest of the institutions re-
port showed that during the year end
ing Dec. 81, 1915. it cared for an aver
age daily number of 16 children at an
average per capita cost of s5.33. The
maintenance expenses were S4432 SO
Al,
013.50, leaving net loss of s42043. eX-
elusive OF the State appropriation of
$500.
| University Of Maine .
| For two and one-half hours at the bud
get hearing Wednesday afternoon Presi
dent Robert j. Alley of the University oi
Maine explained the needs of that insti
! tuition to the Governor and Council AM
! the committee on appropriations
| The total appropriation asked for the
two years is $62l 600, as against $500
appropriated for the years 19l5-l6.
OF this $621, LOCO, 100000 is asked for eacl
of the years 19l7-1S for maintenance
| 5000 for each of these years for expert
mental work at Highmoor Farm, main
| tained by the university in Monmouth
5000 for each year for a continuation oi
the experiments in animal breeding, frs,
! undertaken at the request of the State
four years ago; and the following fot
new buildings
Fifty thousand for an armory, $25, ,ool
for an administration building, $40, 600 for
horticultural building, $4,000 for a
dairy building, and $4,000 for a wing of
the mechanical engineering laboratory.
There is asked, also, s1l,0C0 for 1917 and
$lo,oe0 for 1915 to be added to the feder-
al appropriation for agricultural extern
sion work.
PRESIDENT Alley went into the need or
each appropriation in great detail, and
a verbatim report of what he said would
| fill columns The increase in the amour,
asked for maintenance-s30O.O 900 for each
Of the years 1918 as against $l22,5O0 for
each of the two years precedng-he ae.
cribed to a variety of causes, among
them being extensive but very neces-
sary expenditures upon the mammoth
heating plant of the institution. and, of
course. the generally increased cost OF
salaries and living. Discussing salaries,
he pointed out that those paid by the
university are lower--in most cases much
lower-than in the other New England
colleges.
One of the requirements which Presi-
dent Alley discussed in great detail was
the proposed new armory Military drill
is necessary part of the course if the
university is to receive the federal ST.
pend. In recent years, with the federal
ization of the militia and enlarged oppor-
tunities for service and advancement in
the regular army, more students are TAX
ing this drll-or, more properly speaking.
this study of military science-than ever
before. Several university graduates
have already received army commission.
and the university battalion has grown
to 600. outdoor drill is possible but a few
weeks of the college year, and through
lack of room it is no longer a physicai
possibility to drill in the eymnasium
Something must be done and at once.
unless this highly important part of the
universitys service is to be seriously i'm
paired.