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Show (lovernment Alii. 0V UK ad in, nics of (iovern t r.w V 1,1 biilljlng and 0 I o Improving the rda are 1 JS i-n'iige,l lii biinliiig up pre 1QT cedents. The Inteit thing In thlt line la (invermuent aid to education. edu-cation. They call atteutlon to the fact that. In our earlier history, large glftt of public lands wore 111 idu to the Statet to be uaed In anptort of the public tcboola. In 1WK! th Mor. rill act wat passed by Congreat making mak-ing large grams of public lands to all the HtBtca, the Income from whlcfl wa lo be uaed In the mnlntcnnnce of agricultural agri-cultural colleges. In ikihi the second Morrill law wa enacted making a national na-tional appropriation of SI.'.immi to each Mate to be ued In upHrtlng these agricultural collogee. This minimi appropriation ap-propriation lina boon increased from year to year until It la now Ii-.l.ooo for each Htnte. Thla direct appropriation, added to the Income which all the Htatea derive from the laud grants of makea an aggregate of nearly 2.(KK).(sio a year which thc Slates now receive a national aid to agricultural education. One Interesting feature of thla flov- ernnicnt aid scheme la that It Involve co-operntlon between the nation and the Males somewhat similar to that now proposed In the Ilroivnlow-I.ntl-mer road bill. The (iovoriiment appropriations ap-propriations and the Inn, I grant funds must bo used only In maintaining the colleges t In establishing them. The Stntea iniiat provide the buildings nnd equipment. Most of the States also supply part of the funds mod In paying pay-ing Hie current expenses. In addition to all this Congress In ls7 passed nulla!, nu-lla!, h act, making a gift of Sl.-i.ouo nnnunlly to each Ktale to aid lu np-porting np-porting a State experiment alntlon, and lu till we have another eT,.,,,ia of tho aiiiiie kind of en-opcriillon. The Hlate now rccclvo from the (iovern-mcnt (iovern-mcnt for the support of these ttallona nearly fsoo.00 annually. Thlt added to the (invernment aid which the college col-lege enjoy makes grand total of more than t'.'Joo.ooo nnniiiilly. The good r.iinls people are taking why their plan for national aid to road Improvement should be branded at un-nnsiitutlonnl and pnternnllstlc wbllo (iovernment aid to education la a well eatnbll.i.od feature of our national na-tional policy. They point out that, while the Constitution expressly empower em-power Congres to "eatiibllsh poat roada," It la silent on the matter of ed. ucatlon. They also claim that agricultural agricul-tural education la something which the Mtatr could handle far more easily thau the Improvement of the roada. |