The Redwood gazette., 1935-01-03
'U" FISCAL NEEDS
RISE TO $7,466,OOO
Regents Also Ask Legislature
for New Business and For
estry Buildings

the University of Minnesota in bud
get requests sent to the Capitol We'd
nesday by the board of regents.
The university asks appropriation
of $7,466,OOO for maintenance and
special projects in the school bien-
MUM 1857, as compared to $685.
900 which was appropriated for
1933-35.
The new buildings requested, if
the legislature decides to resume in
stitutional building, dropped in 1888,
are a 100000 structure to house the
school of business administration and
a new forestry building to cost $780,
900.
The increase in the total budget is
somewhat less than that in requested
appropriations due to an expected
fall of $39, 1892 in the % of mill tax
levied for university maintenance.
Receipts from the tax for 1933-35 are
estimated at $639,882 while the yield
in 1857 is expected to be only
100000. The tax in 1885 yielded
1892 1854 less than in 1931-33.
Maintenance Big Item
The major increase requested is
$95O,00O for maintenance, which
would restore that item to the 1881
33 level of $3,275, 900 annually. The
maintenance appropriation was cut to
$2,s00,O0O annually by the 1888 legis-
lature.
Four new projects account for most
of the increase of $27S,0 900 asked in
appropriations for special purposes.
These are $500 annually for re-
search work on Bangs disease, $10,-
900 annually for experiments with
iron paving, started by the univer-
sity the past year,; from $4,000 to
$4,000 annually for maintenance Of
the Institute of Child Welfare, which
has operated on a grant expiring next
year, and $35 900 annually for pro-
posed school for social welfare train
ing.
An increase of $4,000 annually in
the appropriation for county agents
also is asked so that wage cuts in
effect two years may be restored.
The increase in registration, which
showed a considerable loss in 1888, to
near peak figures this year is the
principal reason given by the regents
for requesting larger appropriations
for maintenance.
Their message asserts that even if
maintenance appropriations are re-
turned to the 1898 level, the uni
versity still would have less funds
than in those years for two reasons.
One reason given is that in 1898
surplus of 100000 was accumulat-
ed, which the legislature permitted
the university to spend for mainten-
ance in 1933-35. That is used up and
will not help in the next biennium.
Income Cut Million
The other reason stated by the re-
gents is that the university's total
loss of income from all sources is al
most twice as great as the amount
the legislature is asked to restore, the
total beng estimated at 81 ,059,00 an
nually. This includes the lower tax
yield, loss in tuition fees and lower
yield from university trust funds.
In asking for the two new build
inps, in the event the legislature de-
cides to resume institutional build
ings, the budget request state that
the freshman class in forestry is the
largest in the university's history,
while enrolment is gaining rapidly
in the business school.
DR.. Lotus D. Coffman, president of
the university, in connection with
the request for funds to establish a
new school for social welfare train
ing, states that the years of depres-
sion have shown the pressing need
for training social workers, very few
of whom now have professional train
ing.
"Registration of students has in
creased approximately 58.3 per cent
since 1921" the report says. "Yet
appropriations for the maintenance
of the university are today $685., ,000
less then they were in 1921. In the
past 18 years there has been a mark
ed increase in the cost per pupils for
all children enrolled in the public
schools Of the state, whereas for the
students of the university there has
been a decrease of 24.7 per cent PEI
student. If there has been An in
crease in taxation for the state gov
vernment, it cannot be claimed that
the university is responsible for it.
''It seems needless to say that the
university will cooperate with the
state in any program that may be
necessary to maintain financial seci-
urity and integrity in this state. AT
the same time, the university respect
fully calls attention to the fact that
the youth of this generation pass this
way only once; they have but one
opportunity, just one chance to quail
fly and equip themselves for the con-
sideration of the problems of their
day. Those nations which viii emerge
most quickly and most securely from
the present disaster are those which
do not count their gains only in ma
terial way. Rather, true recovery
will be for those which lay enduring
foundations on which the things OF
the mind and the spirit are built"