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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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mmm The Income of the University 9 University of Illinois during the fiscal year 1914-15. Of the sums appropriated in excess of $480,000, the State of Illinois will receive 4.38% each year until the figures for the fourteenth United States census are available. For the year 1915-16 the total sum payable to this State under the act was $36,282.20, for 1916-17 $58,184.03, and for 1917-18 $80,085.86. The "equal sum" to be provided by some organization within the State of Illinois is at present furnished by individual subscriptions amounting to nearly $60,000 and by twenty-three county organizations which together contribute annually to this work a total of about $26,000. Also the University is spending each year between $20,000 and $30,000 in the work of agricultural extension. The Smith-Hughes Act approved February 23, 1917, provides for the promotion of vocational education and the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects. By this act the Federal Government appropriated for the year ending June 30, 1918, the sum of $500,000 and for each succeeding year up to and including that ending June 30, 1925, a sum exceeding by $250,000 the appropriation of the next preceding year. Beginning July 1, 1925, the sum is to be fixed at $3,000,000 per annum. These appropriations will be allotted to each state in the proportion which its rural population bears to the total rural population in the United States according to the last preceding United States census, on the condition that the allotment of funds to any state shall not be less than a minimum of $5,000 for anyfiscalyear up to and including that ending June 30,1923, nor less than $10,000 for any fiscal year thereafter, and that for each Federal dollar so expended for the maintenance of such vocational training, the State or local community or both shall expend an equal amount for the same purpose. The General Assembly of Illinois having adjourned before these funds were made available, Governor Lowden on November 14,1917, accepted the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act appointed the State Treasurer cuitodian of such money as ttouw be received therefrom, and created a State Board for con8i8tin of tZlTl?*™*110^ 8 the Director of Registration and Education, Chairman, the Superintendent of Public
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