Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-06
GRAHAM POINTS TO
ERROR IN FIGURES
Asks People of State to Get
Full Picture of What u.
N. c. Is Asking

Chapel Hill, Feb. cit was pointed
out here today by President Frank
p. Graham that some of the published
reports from Raleigh that the SUIT
ton figures for the consolidated uni
versity proposed at the last full meet
ing of the appropriations committee
require an increase in appropriation
of half million dollars was not q
fair picture of the actual situation.
DR.. Graham said he was Appealing
to the people of North Carolina to
consider the whole picture and not
merely the destructively low figure re-
commended to be based on the high
tuition increases proposed to supplant
actual present moderate appropria-
tons for three large and increasingly
useful institutions" The proposals Of
Senators Sutton, Fearing Ward, Gre
sorry and Representatives burlington.
Murphy, Wallace, Pritchette, and viii
son. Of Forsyth, backed by large
group Of Senators and Representatives
represents a cut of $371,742 in Pres;-
dent Graham's request which he con-
tines to emphasize. in its entirety as
only "Conscrvatively adequate to meet
established needs. The Sutton figures.
ne said, represent a requested in
crease above the consolidated Univer-
sity appropriations made by the legis-
lature two years ago of only SLID
1097 President Graham's request for
the next year, he pointed out, for over
2,OC0 students above 10 years ago and
a plant recently increased in value
bv nine million more dollars largely
built or being built out of its own
self-raising revenues and PWA funds
is over quarter of a million dollars
less than the amount requested for
the three much smaller institutions
ten years ago." 1.-The Sutton figures"
Dr. Graham said. substantially cut
the requested amounts not only be-
cause they eliminated salary restora-
tons and all other requested items
except the very few items recommend
ed for each institution by the budget
Commission, but also because they
take as a base not the appropriations
made for this year but appropriations
as already reduced for this year by
the budget bureau"
President Graham said he found q
growing sentiment in the State in
favor of using a reasonable increase
in tuition for out of state students in
each institution as scholarship fund
for especially talented students from
families of low income. He said the
proposal for high tuition based on
loan funds was unsound in the opin-
ion of experienced administrators of
loan funds.
He quoted a distinguished educator
who said that the State of North Car
DINA was getting great bargain in
a high ranking state university of
wide service and low cost to the peo-
pie of North Carolina bearing high
the name of North Carolina across
the continent and beyond. This state
ment is borne out by the following
facts.
Ten years ago the three institutions
which compose the University Of
North Carolina actually received from
the State $1,810,415. For the resident
student bodies estimated for the ap-
preaching biennium to reach 1880, or
over 1900 above ten years ago, and
a plant worth % million dollars, or
over 33 percent above ten years ago,
the Sutton-Fearing-Tu figures
call for $1,589,422.