The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-31

Citizens Of Indiana must make
their state educational institutions
equal with those of surrounding states
if the Hoosier state is to remain in
the front ranks OF education" declared
Dr. B. D. Myers, head of the Indiana
University School of Medicine. speak
ing last night to a meeting of the
alumni of Indiana and Purdue uni
versities and the State Normal at the
Knights of Pythias Temple. He added
that several years ago Indiana caught
the vision of progress in education and
held a front position but in the past
five years it had relinquished it's
honors to the state-supported uni
versities in the surrounding states.
DR.. Myers emphasized the need of a
seven cent levy to enable the three
state educational institutions to regain
their position and keep a pace with
the progress in education. He assert
ed that the budgets available in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mich
igan and Ohio were from two to three
times greater than that of the Hoosier
institutions. He added that the pro-
posed seven cent levy would become
effective in July, 1922 if the coming
session of the state legislature author
lied it.
Class Rooms Crowded.
During the past 10 years no class
rooms have been built at Indiana uni
versity and the enrolment has almost
doubled in that period" asserted the
speaker. And l believe the, same is
true of Purdue university and the
State Normal schools at Terre Haute
Mnncio Indiana tbnv hold
ing classes in the attic and easements
of the buildings and whenever a room
is unoccupied for few minutes it is
used for a class room.
Twenty per cent additional number
of faculty members are needed at the
Hoosier state educational institutions
to make them on the average with the
faculties in the State-supported instl-
tutions in surrounding states. New
buildings and equipment are needed so
that he students may obtain the best
POSSIBLE instruction. Various clinics
and hospital facilities are needed for
the medical school," the speaker point
ed out.
Other States Are Rivals.
Dr. Myers emphasized the point that
the citizens in the surrounding states
had met the educational crisis with
more public support ard that the
people Of Indiana would likewise urge
that a levy sufficient to maintain the
schools be authorized bv the state
legislature He added that Indiana
had produced more men of ability and
special scientific and educational train
ing than were now in the Hoosier state
because other states had been able to
offer the men and women better oppor-
tunities than in their native state.
DR.. S. f. Smith, of this city, asserted
that each year hundreds of Hoosier
young men and women were leaving
their native state to obtain their
education in the state supported uni
versities of Illinois. Michigan. Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Ohio because these
states had met the educational crisis
with more liberal support.
Must Have Strong Schools.
These Hoosier men and women are
being trained under the viewpoint Of
the state wherein they are attending
the state universities instead of alb
sorbing the good wholesome. Hoosier
atmosphere and ideas" DR.. Smith said.
"And in many cases when once they
leave the state they never return. We
must have a strong school of medicine
so that there will be a sufficient num-
Der of physicians trained each year"
Denver Harlan, president of the