The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-09-23
EDUCATIONAL AMENDMENT DIS
CUsSED BY DR.. ECkHARDT
The Gunnison Empire.

portant meeting in the County Court
Room to consider the Educational
Amendment that is to be submitted
to the Colorado voters ON November
2. DR.. C. C. Eckhardt of the Univer-
sity of Colorado briefly spoke con-
corning the proposed amendment and
how 1t would effect the State Normal
School as we'll as the other State In
stitutions at Fort Collins, Greeley,
Boulder and Golden. DIR. Eckhardt
showed how the income of those In
stitutions had not been increased to
meet the rise in prices and as re-
suit work of these Institutions was
seriously threatened. ALI kinds of
supplies and materials used by these
schools have advanced 100 to 3009d.
Because other institutions are able
to pay higher salaries the state
schools have been losing many OF
their best teachers. The University
has lost Dean Ketchum, one of the
ablest and best known engineers OF
the Country. Many others prominent
in the field of education have left the
University because much more at
tractive salaries were offered else
where. The Agricultural College al
Fort Collins has lost 125 men in the
last four years, many of them going
to other state agricultural colleges,
and into commercial work at salaries
often double those paid them by the
college. The loss of those men to the
agricultural and cattle interests of
the state cannot be estimated. They
were experts in the agricultural con-
ditions of the State and their places
must necessarily be taken by men Of
less experience and often ignorant Of
our specific agricultural problems.
Owing to these conditions and short
age of funds much of the work of the
College has been suspended. At the
present time the College has two ex-
perts at Paonia and vicinity working
on the elimination OF such pests as
the alfalfa weevil, the coddling moth
and the poison milk weed. The so.
luton of these problems mean the
saving of thousands of dollars to the
state. But unless the College gets
enough additional funds to keep UP
this work and keep the experts now
serving the state, the material inter
ests of the College are going to suffer
seriously. At the Gunnison Normal
there is crying need for new equip
ment and added teaching force. Each
of the state schools is In debt and
only speedy and substantial financial
relief will enable these schools to
maintain their high standards and
keep their present faculties.
To meet these conditions the
friends of higher education in Colo
RADIO have submitted the Educational
amendment whereby the state tax for
all purposes is to be raised from four
mills, the present constitutional limit,
to five mills. This amendment will
enable the legislature to appropriate
money enough for each of the state
schools to relieve their present finan-
cial conditions and put them on ba-
sis that will enable them to retain
their faculties and maintain their
high standards.
To bring this matter to the atten-
tion of the voters of this community
there was formed the Educational
Amendment Club with the following
officers:
President, ]. S. Ferris; Secretary,
Margaret Collins.
1t is hoped that all friends of high
er education will affiliate with this
club and help present the matter to
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