The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-08-26
PREPARING TO BUILD
new LA. UNIVERSITY
Will Be Located on 1000
Acres of Land Near Baton
Rouge.

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of the Louisiana State University VIII
get under way in a short time their
building program, which Will Involve
the expenditure Of s5,O0O,OO0 IN the
next three years on a new university to
be built south Of town.
Louisiana has a larger percentage or
illiteracy than any other state, but IN
spite of the difficulties presented by
the eeling that the whites and the
negroes must be separated for the pur-
poses Of education, the Louisiana pub
lie school system is rapidly taking It's
rank among the best.
With the lettering of the PUBIC
schools comes the demand for more
and better facilities for higher educa-
ton, and it is to meet this need that
the people of Louisiana have decided
to build a new university which Will
furnish facilities for 5000 students
each year.
The new university will be built on
1000 acres of virgin land Immediately
to the south of Baton Rouge. The
grounds, once parts I two large plan
tations, are so situated above the river
that most of them are no dependent
upon the leeves for protection from
the annual high water.
After the people Of the state had de-
cided that they wanted a new univer-
sity, the question was when could the
money be collected with the least bur
den upon the people.
Governor John M. Parker furnished
the answer to this when he said:
Take it from the natural resources
OF the state" We did not grow the
forests as a farm crop. Nature gave
them to us. Neither did We manu-
facture the oil and the gas and store 1t
under ground. When these products
are harvested, we don't receive the
fruits Of any mans labor; we don't dig
into any ones bank account built by
his savings, and we lessen no ones
accumulated wealth.
So the people of Louisiana have said
to those who take her oil: You have
found a pool of oil stored as a hidden
treasure under the earth. The world
needs this oil to administer to Its COM
fort and we'll being. We will sell 500
worth Of it. You take s97 to pay the
expenses and your profit. We will
take 81 for the use of the sections
from which the Oil was taken and 81
and deposit 1t in the state treasury
and when 1t has accumulated enough
we will spend it toward training peo-
pie to build up an industry that will
sustain a thrifty population when the
oil is all gone" The severance tax
on natural resources, other than oil
and gas, is 2 per cent.
Sixty or seventy million dollars is
represented in the timber operations
In the state. This timber Is being
rapidly cut and spread over the nation.
In the place of the towering pines will
be left only the denuded woodlands.
Nothing is possible on these lands
but agriculture, and the only way to
approach this subject is through q
greater agricultural college which will
teach the youth of the state how to
utilize this waste land and to make an
agricultural asst of these great areas
now barren or soon to be barren when
the timbers are cut.
Louisiana is primarily an agricul.
tural state. Outside of New Orleans
few factories exist. Special considera-
ton will be given in the university to
the needs Of the rural population of
the state, but in addition colleges of
arts and sciences, of law, of engineer
ing, for teachers, and the Audubon
sugar school and a special department
Of Journalism which will use the local
daily as its laboratory.
The possibilities of dairying in Lou
isiana are almost unlimited. The
state Is not confronted by the disad-
vantages of cold weather and frozen
pastures. The COWS a Craze On
fresh pasture at all seasons of the
year. Yet many Of the Northern
dairies are getting several times as
much milk from their cows as is being
received from the same number OF
COWS in Southern diaries.
In operation the dairy department
will represent the best thought of X
perts in that line and the most modern
ideas secured from those states where
the industry is a success will be util-
lied. Under careful supervision the
dairy will be operated by young men,
who will have the opportunity, while
working their way through college, to
learn the real science of dairying.
In q few years farmers from all over
the state will be able to secure infor.
nation both as to the largest produc-
ing cows and the best butter fat pro-
duction and modern methods Of hand.
ling and caring for their stock.
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