THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



This officer has made studies from time to time of the various 

 kinds of extension work being done by the different colleges. 

 In 1904, the college association appointed a standing com- 

 mittee on extension work and in 1909 a section of extension 

 work was formed. Thus it is seen that two parallel lines 

 were forming which promptly converged and merged into 

 this new legislation. With these centers of interest develop- 

 ing, it was to be expected that various proposals for legis- 

 lation should be brought forward. Congressman McLaughlin, 

 of Michigan, introduced a bill on December 15, 1909, which 

 was somewhat similar in its provisions to the Lever Act. 

 Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, introduced a bill the next year 

 which incorporated a plan for extension work. The Dolliver 

 bill, however, was an omnibus measure and provided for agri- 

 cultural education, vocational training and work in the trades 

 and industries, generally. Certain antecedent bills had been 

 consolidated and the result was a rather elaborate proposal. 



In 1911, Congressman McKinley, of Illinois, introduced 

 a bill somewhat similar to the McLaughlin bill. It is inter- 

 esting to note, however, that the basis for the apportionment 

 of funds for the McLaughlin bill was one cent per capita 

 of the total population. The McKinley bill provided for the 

 initial appropriation of $10,000 per state and that further 

 apportionment should be upon the basis of acreage of arable 

 land. The Lever bill provided that the apportionment to 

 any state should be made upon the proportion that the rural 

 population of that state bears to the rural population of the 

 United States at the next preceding census. 



Most of the bills along this line, which were offered the 

 first two or three years, met the same fate. They died in the 

 committee rooms. They did not die in vain, however, be- 

 cause they contributed to the general interest which was 



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