The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-01

right to train all the high school teach
ers of the state in these branches. This
right was given the state college in
the survey. It carries the cultural
and classical studies Of Latin, German,
French, Spanish and the Scandinavian.
1t has department of art, and in its
music department it has eight teach
ers who carry the student to point of
original composition. The Washing
ton State College has course in phar-
macy, veterinary surgery and mining,
civil and mechanical engineering, to-
gether with a complete course in Eng
lish, political science, etc., including
all branches of economics and business.
/ cannot believe that the majority of
my constituents wish me to vote for
more duplication in courses than We
now have prescribed by the education
al survey.
realize that the Washington State
College is an East Side institution,
but it will never be an institution
which the East Side can be proud of
if it allows this institution to waste its
money in courses where it will be of
no benefit, either to its students or to
the state. This has been the case in
the past, and the entire Yakima Val
ley has suffered for lack of being able
to get tests of various kinds made at
our state agricultural college. In fact
I feel, personally, that the agricul-
tural college has played politics to
the detriment of the people of my dis
trict, and I will insist before the COM
mittee on appropriations that any
money voted to the state institution
shall have specification requiring an
adequate amount to be expended in
experiments. Of the large appropria-
ton given by the last legislature less
than three per cent was spent by the
state college in experimental work
for the benefit of the farmers of this
state; especially in our valley was this
negligence expensive. How much bet
ter it would have been had the college
spent money in giving US tests and
experiments on pests, than in trying
to maintain such expensive courses as
architecture and forestry, from which
courses they could not possibly grad
uate efficient students. s $685. .
There is mistaken idea that the
University of Washington is the agi-
tator in this controversy. This logical
settlement of courses prescribed in
House Bill No. Is is demand of COM
mon sense, following the trend Of mod
ern times, to make the state institu-
lions efficient first, and pride to each
state instead of following the old the
DRY of pork and sectionalism in build
ing up its institutions. All experts
on education agree that the two in
stitutions have their field, and both in
stitutions can accomplish more good
if restricted in their activities.
Last Wednesday night all heads of
educational institutions in the state
were called before a joint committee
on education here in Olympia. The
unanimous opinion among impartial
judges was in favor Of adopting the
report of the survey. Even some Of
the Washington state partisans, after
this conference admitted the justice
of the report and said they would GER
tainly support the bill. We're I a poll
tician would cry "That the state col
lege is being destroyed by an avari-
cious element from the West side Of
the mountains" / have received no
letters, nor have I been urged by any
one to support house Bill No. Is, but
I am going to do so regardless Of what
may come because / believe that
should the majority Of the people in
my county know the meaning of the
bill, know what it means to the stu
dents of the two institutions, and know
what it means to the taxpayers of the
state, they would approve of my ac-
tons. On the other hand, should I
take the easiest way out, and vote
against House Bill No. Is, would not
have to explain my vote, but I would
not feel that I had properly repre-
scented the interests of my district, nor