Show 1 I ii estion diesti oil 0 of school aad aid revived in state senate move to support junior colleges on beer revenue raises grave question proposal of the utah senate monday that hat the proceeds of the revenue to bo be derived by the state front from a tax on beer should be devoted to the support of junior col logos loges brought to the front just how it la Is that junior colleges in utah shall ba supported two years ago in accepting snow college tor for the fiscal year 1932 33 and undertaking to add weber college for or the year the legislature provided that one halt balf the cost after this year should be borne barrio by tb the a districts or counties from which the junior e colleges would draw their support tills this year dixie college at st george Is also malting making application to join the publicly supported colleges all three of those these institutions havo have been operated in the past by the L D 8 c church the church Is giving them up oz or in the case of dixie jig ig about ready to do so tile the communities served by chesi institutions argue that the work ot of these colleges must he be continued at somo some place aval available lable to the students siu students dents or they will lit in the majority ot of cases be added to the list of lot the unemployed furore in legislature the colleges have been supported in the past in part from tuition fees and in part from church contributions the circumstance which creates the present furore lit in the utah legislature about junior colleges la Is that it Is ig proposed that tho the state general fund assume the burden which until the present has been upheld by the church A bill Is now before the utah house presented by ui am advocate of junior colleges which proposes to amend the law ot of two years ago so that the entire support outside of tuition tees fees shall come from the state the junior college question was thrust to the fore late last week by a resolution from the house committee which desired to ao know wether it should provide in tile the general appropriations bill tor for the support ot of junior colleges and ana it named tour four of them tha list included the three named above and bianch agricultural I ri college at cedar city which does junior college and high school work always supported by state the branch lias has always been supported by the state plus tulion fees and some contributions from the federal government for the high school work iron county school district furnishes about 80 it a student which la is not up to uie tile average cost per student I 1 in tiny high school an in tho the state the answer to the legislature to the committee on appropriations in ill its final torm form was thal thai the ap I 1 a bill should carry uni amounts for fill all four colleges mentioned in tile the event that this could be lone done without interfering unduly with tile the ecilio economy my program of the legislature the budget request of the branch agricultural college which has about junior college 0 elege students was close to 0 00 weber lias has junior college students registered this year omitting tile gymnasium classes and those attending tile tha summer school and business courses it was ready to ask for tile the coming blen alum phim snow with possibly students was waa seeking lit in its budget Te request quest about GS while it wits was understood that eliat dixie with another students would be glad to be welcomed into tile the told fola ot at the state junior colleges with nil an appropriation ot at for tor the blett blenn illum lum A agree to reductions these figures would have added added to the he burden of the state general fund however it Is understood that since allies the committee of at allua reported the possibility ot of keeping tho the budget within the estimated revenue and was against additional taxes for the state general fund tho the supporters of at the junior colleges are willing that the budgets be pared the branch to weber to about snow to and dixie to 10 which would mean a total tota 1 ot of labout labolle 1 the appropriations committee bill was due out monday but under the circumstances surrounding its work tills this year that was waa impossible however a preliminary report repart Is expected out within a day or two which may possibly give still another set get ot at figures in the meantime no bill has lieen cert presented to the present legislature which would set up the machinery by which the junior colleges could obtain a y support from the regions in whit which 1 I they are situated and which they would situated and which ahey would most intensively serve the law in codified version adds the following proviso to the a sections which establish snow and weber as junior colleges sa said id school shall however thereafter bo be maintained by the state stale brov provided aided that tile the school dist districts ricas ca county anty or counties in which wh ch sa said I 1 d school la Is located shall pay one halt half of oc said maintenance beginning july 1 1933 and thereafter this proviso has beon be on desel described bed as expressing an idea idaa of a a plan but as ag in its present form being thoroughly unworkable salt lake tribune |