Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-11
SCENT LEVY FOR
USE OF SCHOOLS
RECOMMENDED
Committee Gives Cause for
Shortage in Educational
Funds.
SAY PUPILS QUIT STALE

Recommendations that the State edu-
cational levy be fixed at ; cents instead
Of the present rate of rs cents were made
today to the Legislature by the LegiS-
lative Visiting Committee The new
levy, if granted, viii raise approximately
81, 10000 for Indiana University, Pur-
due University and the State Normal
The committee, which is composed OF
Senator Estas Duncan, chairman, and
Representatives otto G. Fifeld and d.
y. Curry, discloses in its report the re
spOnsibiIity for the present situation OF
the State schools The blame is at
tached on the state board Of tax com
missioners in the following manner:
by an act of the General Assembly OF
1913. n special levy of cents on each
500, was levied for the use Of Indiana
University, Purdue University and the
State Normal school In 1919 the State
tax board interpreted the tax law tbe-
cause Of the increased valuations on
property as to cut the levy for these
schools to IS cents on each 500, TO be
divided as in the past: an extra cent
on each S1CO. was levied by the tax
board 10 90 into the general fund, ana
then to be given to the Indiana Uni
versity. Purdue University and the
State Normal school, If the Legislature
should see ft.
has visited these three tSate schools ana
finds that they are being operated upon
the most economical lines possible. We
find that professors who have taught IN
our institutions are being hired away
from these institutions by neighbOrlnS
States, which have caught the vision OF
conditions and have acted 10 meet the
emergency and are getting our best
trained teachers away from as.
PUPILS FOLLOW
TO OTHER STATES.
we also ind that q great many of
our pupils are following these professors
to their new. places OF employment out
of the State We fud further that in
some Institutions there has not been 4
single building added in ten years, and
that the student body has increased -
per cent.
Under these conditions il Is apparent
that the low standing We occupy at pres
ent will certainly descend still lower and
the usefulness of our State colleges will
certainly retrograde. The committee re-
allies that our higher institutions of
learning are facing crisis and that what
they do is a contribution 10 a forward
movement and that plans for the future
must be made if they are to keep abreast
Of the times.
We therefore, recommend that the
1-cent levy already made for these insi-
tutions be made available, and a levy
Of , cents on each 500 Of taxables be
made for their future use"
The committee also asks that the
State board of agriculture be disbanded
and that the State take over the board 5
affairs. The action Of the committee IS
expected to bring to a head the long
standing controversy regarding the
status of the board OF agriculture
CONTINGENT
FUND EXPENDED.
The report also shows the disposition
Of the Governors contingent fund.
Among the items is listed the payment
OF $500 to Fred Robinson for advising
WITH the Governor during Legislature. -
Mr.. Robinson was one Of the cam
paign managers for Warren T. McCray.
It IS shown that Governor Goodrich
expended all Of the $4,000 appropriated
as the Governors emergency contingent
fund for the last year There was a bal
ance from a similar fund for 1919.
Among the expenses which were met by
payments from the Governors emer-
gency fund were the following: Sal
aries and expenses of legislative bureau,
$l,2O6.41; salary woman factory inspec-
tor. $4,000; salaries Of historical com
mission, S1,4S7.2S; Henry Roberts, eight
months salary, labor bureau, 1888 SO 4;
John Edwards, legal adviser to Gov
ernor during Legislature, $3.50; Robert
Baltzell, codifcation. Of state laws, 500 i;
DR.. Julian, fee for investigating veteri-
nary department, $500; Fred Robinson.
advising with Governor during LegisIa-
ture, $500; expenses of commission to
relocate reformatory. s922.51; Southeast
ern hospital maintenance, 5000 10 A;
Eastern hospital, maintenance, 81, %
The committee recommends that the Gov
ernOr's emergency contingent fund be
increased from $4,000 to $4,000