The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-02-07
SHALL STATE INSTITUTIONS CONTINUE
TO BE HANDICAPPED?

"A merry battle is raging in the Minnesota legsla-
re between prominent members of the Minnesota
gislature and Gov. Christianson's "Big Three
no have prepared the budget of appropriations for
e various institutions for the next two years.
The charge is made that the big Three are ex-
cising false economy in effort to make record
1t is notorious fact that the housing conditions
institutions in the state inadequate. The Her
editor knows of his own knowledge that inmates
the Home School for Girls, located in Sank Cen
e, are forced out on parole in some cases before
ey ready for their liberty, because the insttu
pm cannot possibly care for them. AS a matter
fact over so per cent of the girls of the institu
on are parole at present.
Perhaps the condition at the School for the
eeble Minded at Faribault presents the most SER
us condition.
4 The University of Minnesota loses many of its
ost efficient educators because the salaries paid
cidedly lower than professors receive in other
pms of the United States.
I The universityis managed by Board of Regents,
ppointed by the Governor, who serve without sal
lily. The personnel represents the highest citizen
Zip in the state. The enrolment in the various
anches of the institution has passed the 10000
ark. 1t is claimed that the 'fBig Three" indi-
dually and collectively, have spent but few
urs at the University in the past two years and
the very nature of things know but little about
. e actual requirements of the institution. The
tdget allotment set aside does not meet the esti-
ats of the Board of Regents, and this promises to
svelop one OF the warmest scraps of the session.
The Dads Day Organization, headed by COM
8 ttee consisting of A. A. D. Rain, Minneapolis,
airman; J. H. Grill, Minneapolis; Harold Harri-
n, Minneapolis; A. A. Horton, Fairmont; Ray S.
ley, Duluth; G. A. Policy, Winona, and Myron
Panl nod oh
ton of the needs of the university and will give
e Board of Regents every assistance possible in
lie campaign to secure what they are convinced
the necessary appropriations for the institution
le Minnesota Daily which very clearly reflects the
ntlment of the student body in discussing the
after editorialy in its issue of Feb e. 1929, said:
Time to Think Straig ht and to See Clearly
Alumni OF the University of Minnesota have
expressed themselves as sharing the desire of
Governor Theodore Christianson Cos 'O9L)
and of the Board of Regents that the Legisla-
ture may work out a statesmanlike plan for
University appropriations based on the Re-
q gents statement of the Needs for Biennium
K and on the Governors recommendation in his
& recent inaugural message-"In dealing with
e the University would urge as much liberal
Is lty as is consistent with economic conditions
b within the state. Surely the University could
ask no more. AS the states greatest institu-
ton of learning, it is entitled to no less'
The problem before the Legislature as stat
simple one:
Can the State of Minnesota, without
burdening its taxpayers, and without neg
lectng any of its other essential functions,
maintain University of the first class?
The Legislatures customary fair and un-
biased consideration of this recurring question
+ is not helped by the groundless and intemper-
IS ate attacks launched by Henry Rines and other
Il members of '"The Big Three" upon the Re
Il gents of the University. The substance of
K these attacks is given below
1t is perfectly proper for any citizen of the
If State or for any officer of the State govern
Il ment to suggest that it might be possible for
H the Legislature to give proper care to the un-
fortunate or to perform other duties of the
State only by withholding money what other
wise would be appropriated for the University
IL But this question can be submitted on it's merits
without hiding it behind screen of smoke
such as that emmitted by the "Bg Three"
spokesman in his distortion of University facts
land figures. Surely the peoples representa-
xtives, in the Legislature can be trusted to
strike the none-too-easy -Salance involved in
providing for the States unfortunate liabili-
ties without neglecting its present and future
assets. Never, at any previous session of the
Legislature has it been felt that the only way
in which the attention of the members of the
Legislature could be attracted to the legitimate
needs of other agencies of State service would
be to voice unfounded charges that the Regents
of the University have been guilty of misfea-
ssance IN office, have submitted untruthful fnan-
4 ciar statements, and have misnandled public
funds.
W Fortunately, the testimony of the Regents
land of the President of the University before
the House Appropriations Committee and the
Senate Finance Committee vigorously estab-
sished the real facts in this case.
SD The "Bg Three" are not serving the people
1of Minnesota when they seek to lead the men,
bers of the Legislature to believe that, because
the State, from all its sources, furnishes Sd
lcents of each dollar of the Unversity's total
dependable income, the Regents guilty
Of "diverting state funds to unapproved items
when they proposed to spend the other 46 cents
of each dollar derived from the Federal gov
Sernment, from gifts, from student fees, and
from self-supporting service enterprises) on
|sprojects concerning which even Mr.. Rines
states 1--WE do not question the propriety of
these expenditures Mr. Rines, after devoting
six hours in two years to University hearings
land to the study Of University operations on
the two campuses, and making one trip to each
|'of the detached Schools of Agriculture, only
reminds the people of the state that he is q
poor loser of friendly suit" when he sud