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for an automatic distribution of the aid which the state accords to 

 hospitals and charitable institutions; if passed, it would eliminate the 

 methods characteristic of the distribution of state funds by the legis- 

 lature for purely public charities. 



Another bill provides lor a charities bureau in the Department 

 of the Auditor General to carry on the duties imposed on the Audi- 

 tor General and the State Board of Charities. 



The purpose of these bills is to make automatic distribution of 

 state revenue to and among hospitals and charities doing the work 

 for the people of the state, on the basis of services rendered, and a 

 method of full returns of receipts and expenditures, with power by 

 inspection to correct extravagance, and to compel economy in ex- 

 penses of maintenance, and to prevent unnecessary duplication of 

 institutions, but to require of them steady improvement and constant 

 advance in methods and results. 



The growing interest and general demand for the mill tax for 

 the support of higher education are shown in recent reports, that 

 for Virginia by Professor Charles D. Maphis, of the University of 

 Virginia; that for Texas by Professor Arthur Lefevre, of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas, and that for Ohio by President Alston Ellis, of 

 Ohio University. That for Virginia is the report made by a com- 

 mission to devise a systematic method to meet the demands of higher 

 educational institutions, to prevent educational duplication and con- 

 sequent financial waste, and to devise stable and systematic methods 

 for the maintenance, management and expansion of these institu- 

 tions. The report recommends for Virginia one medical school, one 

 polytechnic school, and one university, and a permanent education 

 commission with power to cooperate with the governing bodies of 

 all institutions of higher education in Virginia through repre- 

 sentatives. 



Professor Maphis has collected and printed the opinions of rep- 

 resentatives of the universities of California, Wisconsin, North Da- 

 kota, Minnesota, Kentucky, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and of the 

 experts of the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Education, 

 of New York, and of the Bureau of Education of Washington. 



Based on these and other evidence, \^irginia is advised to adopt 



