Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-09

nesS OF our people DC secured All
ignorant, incompetent population is
the richest soil for unrest, boil
shevism, pauperism, and crime
who does not know that our
mineral resources Of the mount
aims, our agricultural resources Of
the soil and of the forests, and that
'he vital efficiency of successful
commerce, all depend upon the
technical training of the youth Of
Oul state? The conservation and
the 0CVeic pment of our natural re-
sources make absolutely necessary
forward, not a backward, step in
our higher educational insttu-
lions
"Only the power and resources of
the state are adequate to support
and enforce modern education
which will accomplish the above
results. Private agencies and the
church can and do help in goodly
measure, but the great task OF the
maintenance Of education rests
squarely upon the shoulders of the
state which is the collective people.
The task should be kept clean from
merely local or merely partisan
politics.
What honest man or woman OF
the state of New Mexico would de-
prive deliberately an ambitious
young man or woman enrolled in
any of our state Institutions of his
or her right for modern educa-
ton? Just as our lungs have q
right to air and our eyes a right to
sunlight, so also the human mind
has an Unborn right to that en-
vironment furnished by educational
institutions of the right kind which
makes possible growth and useful
ness in the betterment of man
kind"
University's High Standard.
What has been said above re-
fers to all educational institutions
which are doing their share in the
great work of public education.
However, the state university oil
New Mexico is particularly con
cerned now in its own future. The
state university is naturally theI
head of the educational system of
the state. 1t is maintaining strictly
collegiate standards and admits no
high school students. During the
past fifteen months it has made a |
good record of financial and aca-
demic efficiency now having no
deficits of any kind, having two
new buildings completed and paid
for, strengthened faculty. and
having the largest enrolment OF
actual college students in the state. !
1t would be unprecedented for the
fat ~
state university to take a back |
ward step because of the lack OF
some $25, 900. We have asked for
500, 000--not for $485,O0O or $75,- |
900.
The state university belongs to-
the people of the whole state. It's
students represents practically
every county in the state. 1t also
enrolls students from nearly every
other state in the union and these
students, all of whom pay addi- |
tional fees help to lessen the over
head costs and also contribute tot
that cosmopolitan atmosphere
which BELTS a real university.
1.-The prospect of discouraglng
such chosen students, all of whom
are above high school grade. and OF
disappointing capable men and
women who are members of the
faculty, looms large in view of any
prospect of reducing rather than
increasing the income of the state
Four Bits a Year! ..
ITO increase the income of the
state university of New Mexico by
$4,000 would mean an added
burden of about so cents per year
to a taxpayer in New Mexico VINO
paws taxes upon $4,000 worth OF
property and upon others in IKE
proportion. .-..
what seems to be needed in the
present crisis is for our citizens TO
devise Immediately some means OF
helping alphabetically the harass-
ed and overworked committees OF
our legislature in an earnest ellort
to prevent disaster to our educa-
tional institutions; secondly, TO
discover some satisfactory means
of preserving the continuity of the
LANDS income to be paid to the In
situations during the next two years
in accordance with the understand
ing with the federal government,
and thirdly to see to it that econ
omies are effected in less import
ant matters than the sacred cause
of education in order that adequate
appropriations may be made Tor
the maintenance of the necessary
educational institutions of the
state"