Great Falls tribune., 1921-12-21
SHORTEN PLAN
! FOR BUILDINGS
At UNIVERSITY
Suspend Program Aside
From Expenditure Of
$2,804,000 on Hand.
Remainder Of $5,000,-
900 Bond Issue Held
Up Till Future Date.

Helena, Dee. 20.-Further plans for
1.-THE continuance of the state university
building program, other than the ex-
ipenditure of the $2,S04,00O received
| from the recent sale of bonds, were
suspended indefinitely by the state
board Of education Tuesday. The re-
mainder of the S5.000,0OO bond issue
authorized for university improvement
will be held up until some future date.
State operated summer schools for
| teachers at Lewistown and Miles City
were the first to suffer at the hands
of the boar'l i'll connection with dras-
tic cut Of $150,0o0 in proposed expen-
ditures of the states educational in
stitutions Tor the next Is months as
proposed by Chancellor E. C. Elliott.
These two regional normal schools
which were operated last summer for
the first time under supervision of the
state, cost the educational funds of
the state approximately 5000. the
saving of which sum will contribute to
that degree toward the saving of $780,
900 proposed by the chancellor for the
fiscal year commencing July /. 1922
Their abandonment, for the coming
year at least, were the result of a
/ long discussion which ended in the de-
feat of a resolution TO the effect that
the chancellor be authorized to proceed
to make the necessary arrangements
for the conduct of regional schools at
Lewistown and Miles City in accord
ance with the general plan followed
during the summer of 1921.
In Budget Revision
The matter was introduced to the
board in the presentation by Chancellor
Elliott of a resolution providing for u
revision of tie budgets of the various
state educational institutions as fol-
lows:
That, in view Of the reported con-
dition of the public finance of the
state, and in order to give practical eff
feet to a policy of necessary retrench
ment in the expenditure of public
funds this board approves the pro-
posal of the chancellor of the univer-
sity that the budgets of the several in
stitutions, stations, and divisions of the
University Of Montana, for the re-
mainder of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1922, as appropriated by the legis
lative assembly. and as previously ap-
proved by this board, and as authorized
by the state board of examiners, be re-
vised and re-adjusted so US to reduce
lEe eSLlWdttu expenditures from JHD.
!. 1922, to June 80, 1922, by the sum
Of $4,000; provided that such reduc-
tions be applied to the budgets of the
several institutions, stations, and di
visions in approximate proportion to
the amounts of the legislative appro-
priation from the general fund, and,
Proposes Retrenchment
That, in preparing the budgets for
fbn inc itrtin fn4i nd
divisions Of the University of Montana
for the fiscal year beginning July /.
1922, for the consideration of the
state board of education ut the next
regular meeting, April, 1922, the chan
cellor be authorized to make prOvis-
ions for q further similar reduction of
100000 from the total amounts of the
legislative appropriations; provided that
in making such reduction the budgets
of all experiment stations and eXten-
sion services be reduced by an amount
approximately equivalent to 20 per
cent Of the apprt priation, and that the
budgets of other institutions be re-
duced by an amount approximately
preparation"
Upon motion of Attorney General
Rankin the resolution was amended to
include the words 'at least" before the
specified sums of the reductions and
as so amended the resolution was
adopted without opposition.
Chancellor Elliott then, as the first
step in the retrenchment policy, pro-
posed the elimination Of the summer
schools for teachers at Lewistown and
Miles City, which he said would effect
a saving Of about $4,000.
Miss Trumper Objects
Miss Trumper at once came to the
relief of those schools, which she said
had been established but last summer
and should not be disturbd aud suggest
ed that il expenses must be curtailed
the saving should be made some piace
else. Prof. John DIETRICH said the
teachers who would attend these
schools could 60 to the summer schools
mt Missoula, Dillon or Bozeman as he
felt these three schools should be susf-
cient for the state.
Miss Trumper replied that the L,illon
school could house no more than it had
last summer, that there should be d
school in eastern Montana to which the
teachers would not have so far to trcse,
and that it would thus save the state
considerable in the Inattcr IF trans
portation.
Chancellor Elliott admitted that in
the payment of transportation by the
state it would not save very much by |
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