The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-13
Four Weeks From Last Fri
day Is Date Named For
Adjournment = Much
Work Ahead.
HOUSE CALENDAR
IS 78 PAGES THICK
Appropriations For Educa-
tional Institutions Among
Biggest Issues Now Con-
fronting Lawmakers.
lsY HERBERT FELkELl

Tallahassee. May 12.-At 0:30 and
3: SO. respectively. the house and SEN
ate today began the last half or fifth
week Of the 1919 legislative session
with mountains of work ahead. The
senate is well up with it's work but
the house calendar is seventy eight
pages thick. The legislature will ad
journ four weeks from last Friday at
noon, the session being sixty days loEg
eight weeks and four days. all Sun
days and holidays counted. Citrus
canker, university extension and a
constitutional convention probably will
be considered in both branches this
week Tick eradication which has
passed the house will come over to
the senate, as will the increase for
sheriffs. while the house soon will be
in the throes of the Singletary bill to
sell the Everglades, if the committee
lets it come out alive.
Yesterday members went to church
to hear Mothers Day sermons and wore
roses on their lapels. After breakfast
Representatives Lewis and Phillips
went into the flower garden in front
of the Leon Hotel and picked them each
rose of white. In few minutes
every man in the hotel was similarly
arrayd by the token of purity in keep
ing with the day set aside for the
memory of mother.
Members of the board OF control are
gathering here for the meeting of that
body tomorrow. Naturally they are
deeply interested in the appropriations
! for citrus canker and the state insti
tutions of higher learning. An effort
will be made in the house to bring the
latter appropriation up to the original
amount. The senate is said to be re-
GREETING the cut it's committe made in
the amounts to be set apart for the
colleges, and as new light is furnished
members of both branches are believed
! to be softening toward the institu-
tions.
On member who was disposed to an
extreme economy policy toward the
colleges has recently visitd the college
for women here and now declares it
lis the one best thing the state of
Florida has, Il am proud of it," said
he, and l favor meeting their every
request for funds. If we are going to
compete with California and other
states we can't afford to be cheap"
A letter from President A. A. Muir
phree of the University of Florida, re-
ceived here recently says in part: I'VE
merely wish to save the University
from going down hill, and prevent it
from becoming the laughing stock of
the country. I hope you will be able
to aid our efforts and get the original
amount reinstated in the house. 1t
means an increase of about $4,000.
While 1 am writing may 1 nail lie
that has been in circulation, viz, that
it costs $500 a year to educate boy at
the University of Florida whereas the
actual cost per year is s219.
THE average cost per student per
annum in the colleges of America as
shown by recent report in the United
States Bureau of Education is $3.50,
or Sill per student more than it costs
at the University of Florida at Gaines
vile. All of our professors have more
class hours of teaching to do by % per
cent than is required of any other
group of college teachers in any state
institutions of the south.
The average number of students per
professor at the University of Florida
i is above that of any other state uni
versity in the south. In other words
our university has been running on
the cheapest financial scale possible
If only we could get our lawmakers to
make a careful investigation and care
full comparison with other institutions
in the south | am confident we would
| not be embarrassed by the present sit
uation.''