The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-05
STATE SERVICE
Is ~" PROBLEM
KrOnshage Tells in Third
Article How University
Helps the State.
COST OVER ESTIMATED
Explains University Finances
as Against Bookkeeping
Methods Used.
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is also said that this money is spent
in educating 5000 students.
Neither of these statements is true.
The university renders two primary
services:
1. Instructing about 5000 regular
students, 4,700 summer school stu
dents, and ESQ agricultural short
course students, all of whom come to
Madison. Last year this service cost
the state $1,471,557, plus share of
the cost of administration and of OPP
GRAFTON of the plant.
g Service rendered to the general
public--to people of the state, many
of whom may never have seen a uni
versity building. Last year this SER
vice cost the state $843,059, plus
share of administration and plant OPP
Grafton.
Offer Knotty Problem.
Of couse the university actually
paid out 1921, 101 for these two pri-
mary services last year, but, as l
showed in previous article, $685.
$40 was bookkeeping" money-money
that the university received from self
supporting activities and other
sources, and handled through the
state treasury.
University finances are hard to un-
derstand because of the complicated
system Of state bookkeeping other
middle-western state has such a sys-
tenn. 1t is easiest to try to figure it
out on the accompanying diagram.
You must split the university dollar
one way coming inland another way
going out. Coming in, the dollar
splits So cents from the taxpayer and
as cents from other sources. Going
out, it splits Sc cents for campus SER
vice,> including administration and
physical plant, and 33 cents for state
service. Now, let me give you the
actual figures.
Goes Out Into State.
In the first place, $1,760,075, or al
most 1-3 of the $5,291,101 was not
spent for Campus Service" at all, but
was spent on Estate Service" for peo-
pie who rarely or never see the
campus. 1t went to homes, farms,
factories, school houses out in the
state. Exactly $917,022 Of that amount
again returned to the treasury in the
form of fees, income from sales, and
other charges, because this service is
not given away.
The story of the $1,760,075 spent on
public Service" is interesting because
it goes into every nook and corner of
the state. This Public Service" is
what has been called 1.-THE Wisconsin
Idea in State Universities" 1t is that
service which Wisconsin invented, and
which caused great educators, among
them President Eliot of Harvard, to
call the University of Wisconsin,
"The Leading State University"
University Extension Gets Share.
Here is the way the money used for
"Public Service" is spent. About 8
cents of the university dollar goes for
University Extension" about IA IL
cents for Agricultural Extension"
/ 1-3 cents for operating the Wis
con State General hospital. The re-
mainder, (about 8 cents) is apportion-
ed for special Investigations in ex-
pertinent stations and farm activities
throughout the state.
At the university farm and the ex-
pertinent stations experts study the
SCIENCE anu VI
both production and marketing. BY
means of the County Agents, printed
literature, correspondence, lectures
and motion pictures, the experts pass
their valuable information on to the
farmer.
Real Agricultural Service.
The list of such services is too long
~ wall 1yT1o fO ho effod here
They have concerned themselves with
cows and hogs, with alfalfa and peas,
with silos and soils. One concrete
example will suffice. Every Wisconsin
farmer has heard of Prof. R. A.
Moore's educated seed" Professor
Moore's experiment with 40 grains OF
"pedigreed barley" has been worth
millions of dollars to Wisconsin farm
ers, Who can say how many millions
of dollars the agricultural experiment
station, and agricultural Extension"
have been worth to the state2 1t was
that which made Wisconsin the great
est silo state, the greatest dairy state
cf the union.
Let ne turn to the other kind of
"Extansion." Every expert economist
knows what makes wealth. Land,
capital, labor and talent-natural
ability plus education. The more edu-
cation added to land, capital and
iabor--the more wealth.
Leaders In Extension Work.
Wisconsin was one OF the first states
to learn this fact. 1t was the late
President Van Hise who startled the
educational world when he announced
that the borders of the state univers-
ity would be extended to the bound
aries Of the state. He announced that
II the student could not come to the
university, the university would go to
the student. What is now called
UNIVERSITY Extension began during
his administration.
University Extension is chiefly for
grown-ups who have discovered that
brings, is lifelong process. Alto
gether, in America, more than 2,000,-
900 boys and girls come of age each
year. Three-fourths of them never
get any high school training at all,
much less college education. They
are the kind of people who study
through Extension" The University
of Wisconsin has taught more than
100000 of them through correspond
ence study alone. Last year 26,505
persons took extension courses.
State, Libraries.
Nearly 500 Wiscon-in communities,
most Of which have no Libraries, re-