Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-01-25

Agricultural Collcge-ln q vigorous
advocacy OF the proposed bond issue
Of $l,000,000 for permanent improve.
mentS and expansion at the four state
colleges, which is to come before the
legislature at this session, President
W. Il. Smith of the Mississippi A aud
NJ. college. as one OF the leaders in the
movement, recently presented some
striking reasons for this bond issue.
Aroused over the serious need OF
additional buildings and equipment to
keep pace with the rapid progress in
agriculture, engineering and science,
and speaking not alone for this col.
lege, but for all the state institutions
with which he is thoroughly familiar
by reason of his former position a.
state superintendent OF education, and
member Of the board OF trustees, Mr..
Smith said.
There has never been a more pro-
pitious time or a greater need for a
bond issue to further high education
The colleges have never meant so
nation. They have never been called
on to supply trained men as they are
now. The burden of furnishing these,
and more particularly the greater mum.
Der OF trained men that will be needed
during next year and on during tho
next twenty years, will fall on the col.
To do this, new and modern
scientific facilities are essential.
"The time is exceptionally oppor,
tune. As a state Mississipui in all its
history has never known such a wave
OF prosperity as we have now. We
have made bigger crops and have re-
ceiyed more money for them thaa ever
before.
THE shortage Is not in money. but
in trained men who can multiply their
usefulness by a greater knowledge A
bond issue Of a million dollars will
bring the educational institutions up
abreast OF the times and turn out men
who by their very knowledge gained
in these institutions will produce
wealth and help pay back the princi
pal, and such u bond issue to be paid
in twenty years will be no more than
a debt of about u dollar or two to the
individual The annual interest on
such a sum will be about three cents a
person or the price OF q posage stamp.
Some of our progressive counties
have raised million.dollar bond issues
to build roads, In times that were hard.
realizing that such improvements pay
for themselves.
This is a day OF big achievements
and not Of r~etrenchment, In agricul
ture, in mechanics, in education, the
non-essentials have been cut out and
with every effort to get practical no.
suits we have advanced ten years in
one.
in this Advancement arc our boy.
to be left behind? Can we not provide
for their education as our neighbor
states are doing? Arkansas and Ten.
nessee have already voted m~illion-dol
lar bond issuer for their universities
During the past two years Texas has
spent g. O0,0 900 on It's educational in
situations. Heretofore Mississippi has
been at the front in southern educa
ton. As a result we are at the front
In dalrying, In live stock production,
home convenlences and country life
Boys educated in Mississippi have
been sought by other states because
they were recognized az thoroughly
trained.
"A minutes thought will show that
this money Is not alone to benefit the
students in the colleges. Its value will
reach into every corner OF the state
1--WE need bigger, better facilities at
our colleges, not for beauty Of build
ings, not for ACKNOWLEDGMENT, not for
convenience OF the employees, but In
order that these colleges may best
serve the state by supplying it with
the well equipped, efficient men and
women for which there is such an in
sistent call"