The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-04-25
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1928.
EARNED ENTRANCE TO COLLEGE.


I N the University of Minnesota are fifty
freshman students who entered last fall
L from high schools all over Minnesota, on
scholarships given by the University to boys and
girls whose ratings in their home schools were
on high levels.
Now it is disclosed that forty-five of these
freshmen maintaining an average of C or
better, sixteen have B average eight have
B plus, and five have straight A average, the
highest obtainabe.
Moreover, of two hundred and eighty-six
high school pupils who competed for University
scholarships, hundred and seventy entered
the University And those who had not won
scholarships made a showing quite as good as
those that did win them.
These ratings are much higher than the av-
erage scholarship of the freshman class. Which
proves anew that all admissions to the Univers-
ity of Minnesota should be seective and on
closer rating than heretofore The matriculants
should be limited, well as the scholarships, to
students whose ratings are on the higher levels
in the high schools. AS with the scholarship
tests, the measure Of fitness should exclude high
school students who the lower levels Then
the problem of over-crowding the campus would
be solved, at least part way. The MASTERS and
the fritterers, well as the boys and girls
whose mental equipment should point them in
other good directions for their vocations would
be eliminated automatically. The University
housing problem would become less acute, and the
Institutional appropriation, too, could be cut
down redistributed for improving the quality
of instruction
There would be benefits for all concerned if
entrance to the University of Minnesota were
put closely selective basis. 1t would bene-
fit the student body, it would justify parents
educational expenditures, and it would reach in
the end, to the general taxpaying body of the
state.-Mnnea polls Journal
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ECONOMY NOT IN EVIDENCE"
7 Under the above caption the New Ulm
Journal, in referring to the annual tax
statement issued last week by State Audi
tor Ray P. Chase, says:
Now State Auditor Ray P.
Chase and says that taxes in Mime
sofa will be higher in 1928 than they
ever have been in the history of the
state. This is in direct contravention
with the economy program of the state
administration and which, by the way,
found endorsement by the recent Re-
publican state convention. There is
decided cleavage between heralded econ
omy and actual facts produced by the
state auditor in an abstract of tax lists
of all counties.
One can excuse an individual for misrep-
resentng case through ignorance, even if it
is for political purposes. But it is difficult to
so excuse the editor of newspaper, because it
is an EDITORS business to tell his readers the
truth to the best of his ability and understand
ing. This is obligation he owes to his read
ers. if not to himself.
&c Al.
issued by State Auditor Chase would have shown
the editor of the Journal that there was not the
slightest foundation in fact for the comment
above quoted. Such a reading would have shown
the editor OF the Journal that in comparable
years state taxes have steadily decreased under
Govrnor Christianson's administration, and that
the increase in taxes reported in Mr.. Chase's
statement was wholly in county, township, city
and village taxes, over which the state admins
tration has no authority.
Auditor Chase's statement expressly called
attention to the fact that "state taxes increase
IN each odd year because of heavier expenses re-
suting from each legislative session."
This being true, comparison of state taxes
in 1925 and in 1927 represents fair basis.
Such comparison shows that in 1925 taxes for
state purposes amounted to $15,116,128.52, and
that taxes for state purposes in 1927 amounted
to O1133401, a reduction for 1927 of
s104,79451
Next let US compare the taxes for state pur-
poses in 1924, the year before Christensen be-
came governor, with those for 1926 Such COM
parison shows that state taxes in 1924 amount
ed to s11,S2Ss51.77, and in 1926 they amounted
to $10,566,0 6s.7s, or reduction in 1926 amount
ing to $762, 7S1.99.
In view of the fact that these figures were
as prominent in the statement issued by State
Auditor Chase as any other figures contained
therein, it is difficult to believe that the state