The Southern herald., 1918-01-18
100000 BOND ISSUE
H,JcE APPROPRIATION ASKED OF
LEGISLATURE FOR BENEFIT
OF STATE SCHOOLS.
President Smith Of Agricultural & Mo
chanicaI College Tells solSns Why
improvements Are Required BY
Four Educational institutions.

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advocacy of the proposed bond issue
of $1,OOOOOO for permanent improve
ments and expansion at the four state
colleges, which is to come before the
legislature at this session, President
w, II. Smith of the Mississippi A. and
M. college, as one of the leaders in the
movement, recently presented some
striking reasons Cor this bond issue.
Aroused over the serious need oil
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 as
state superintendent of education, and
member of the board Of trustees, MIR.
Smith said:
There has never been more pro-
pitious time or greater need for
bond issue to further high education
The colleges have never meant so
much to the cause of the state and
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 the
next twenty years, will fall on the col
leges. To do this, new and modern
scientific facilities are essential.
"The time is exceptionally oppor.
tune. AS a state Mississippi in all its
history has inever known such wave
of prosperity as we have now. We
have made bigger crops and have re-
ceived more money for them than ever
before.
"The shortage is not in money, but
in trained men who can multiply their
usefulness by 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 printi
pal, and such a bond issue to be paid
in twenty years will be no more thar
debt of about dollar or two to the
individual. The annual interest on
such a sum will be about three cents a
person or the price of posage stamp
Some Of our progressive countie:
have raised milliondollar bond issues
10 build roads, In times that were hard
realizing that such improvements pay
for themselves.
This is a day of big achievements
and not of retrenchment. In agricul
ture, in mechanics, in education, the
non-essentials have been cut out ant
with every effort to get practical re
suits we have advanced ten years ii
one.
In this advancement are our boys
to be left behind? Can we not provide
for their education as our neighbol
states are doing? Arkansas and Ten
nessee have already voted million-dol
lar bond issuer for their universities
During the past two years Texas hai
spent 100000 on its educational in
stitutions. Heretofore Mississippi has
been at the front in southern educa
tion. AS a result we are at the from
in dairying, in live stock production
home conveniences and country life
Boys educated in Mississippi have
been sought by other states because
they were recognized as thoroughly
trained.
"A minutes thought will show thai
this money is not alone to benefit tht
students in the colleges. Its value will
reach into every corner OF the state
I'VE need bigger, better facilities a
our colleges, not for beauty of build
ings, not for aggrandizement, not hoi
convenience Of the employees, but ii
order that these colleges may bes
serve the state BY supplying 1t will
the well equipped, efficient men ant
women for which there is such an in
sistent call"
Federal Highway Bill Approved.
The Mississippi state highway com
mission has gone on record as heart
lily approving and indorsing the bill
OF Senator Chamberlain of Oregon
chairman of the military affairs com
mittee OF the United States senate
known as the military highway bin
and the companion bill offered in tn,
: house by Representative Dent, to pro
, vide for surveys Of a system of mill
tary highways for the United States
Governor Wants Mansion Sold.
Because 1t 'is not in harmony witt
the hnet dannOarotlo