Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-09
DISTRESS FACES
UNIvE RSITY, IS
HILL s WARNING
President of Institution Says
Proposed Appropriation of
$4,000 Is Inadequate to
Maintain Standard.

In n statement made yester-
day concerning the present condi-
ton of the state university, Pres
ident David s, Hill repeated the
fact that the proposed appropria-
ton of $4,000. together with the
reduced income from lands belong
ing to the university, will be in
Sufficient to maintain the univer-
sity even on its present basis.
The board of regents of the state
university and President Hill are
pleased with the fact that during
the past year all indebtedness and
bills were paid by the university
and feel that efficiency should be
rewarded-not penalaed After
the fear of any deficit whatever
was removed a substantial cash
balance with all bills paid re-
NAMED to the credit of the uni
vcrsity on December /, 1920. How
ever this cash balance has been
used in meeting the necessary eX-
penses of the present year and will
sooa be exhausted, DR., Hill said.
More Money Imperative,
mo new buildings have recently
been asked for by the university,
except in case a bond issue were to
he made. A careful budget con-
islructed just prior to the meeting
of the legislature set forth the
need of S145,000 for maintenance
80 he expended during the fiscal
year beginning December l, 1921.
1t is a simple matter of arithme-
tic to show ihat an appropriation of
$4,000 together with a reduce1
lands income Gan income that
am3unted to $4,000 during the
past fiscal year) cannot possibly
maintain the state university upon
its present sound collegiate basis,
"The finance committees of the
legislature IL serve the sympathy
and the best counsel of intelligent
and patriotic citizens. The gentle
men who compose our Legislature
have before them a stupendous task
in adjusting expenditures to an in
COME which IS lar below the state
! tudget Too many persons are
clamoring fer expenditures who do
cot seem to have in mind the fact
that sources of income to meet
necessary costs must be discovered
and that so far, the discoveries have
InCt been made
A backward Step.
| However, II will be a distinctly
| backward sep a humiliation, and
! a standing repro ach to the state of
| New Mexico to cripple or crush any
of its necessary educational institu-
lions. The report on the New
Mexico educational institutions
which bears thc name of three of
Americas foremost educational
! leaders and which fortunately is
being published serially in the AL
huquerque Evening Herald, points
the way &c types Of educational
consolidation which promises to
make for fmal cial and academic
economy While assuring better ad-
Iantages TO the youth of our state,
: Nevertheless, so long as the peo-
| pie of the state choose to continue
| the various educational institutions
| in their present form, it would
seem to he good craftsmanship
! and good business to support them
in a way that wiz assure good re-
suits. 1t may be better to close
educational institutions than to
maintain them in poverty with the
| feeble faculties which inadequate
appropriations will bring and with
the inevitable intellectual pauper-
ism which will accrue to the chosen
youth of our state.
Sensible ciIi2ens must agree that
our Industries, such as the cattle
and the mining industries must
not be destroyed. They need en-
couragement anC that stimulus 70
development winch comes from the
fair administration of just laws.
One of the trta attest Industries of
this state, tCwcNer, is the work of
our normal schools, of cur colleges
and Of our state university.
Education a Necessity.
al the rreAcnt dire financial
stress CT the state of New Mexico,
some minimizing persons are talk
ng as though public education is
merely charity and not a funda-
mental necessity in the develop
n.cnt of this state.
Who does not know that only
~ the scientific training of com
petent leaders in politics, in bust
ness, in agriculture, and in the pro-
fessions, can the safety and happi-