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THE FORT MILL TIMES Thursdays?Democratic. VP. R. Bradford. Editor and Publisher. ~ The Times invites contributions on live subjects, but dbes not ugree to publtsii more than 200 words on any subject. The rlKht 4s reserved to edit every communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising rates are made known to those Interested. Telephone, locai nnd long distance. No. 112. Kntered at the postofttee at Fort Mill, H. C., as mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1932. Far be it from the purpose of this paragraph to criticise the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina for electing \V. I). Melton of Columbia, "one of the best known and ablest lawyers in South Carolina," to the presidency of that institution. The presumption is that the board of trustees knew its business; but now lit* ro hi the rather fulsome news article in praise of Mr. Melton in The State of Tuesday do we find anything to had to the belief that he is peculiarly equipped for the duties of the head of the institution. lie is a successful lawyer, we are told, hut it can hardly be contended that because a man lias practiced law successfully that he possesses the tact, executive ability, aggressiveness and resourcefulness to manage a university in which there are several hundred students and which should be representative of the best in the life of the State. There is a ileal of difference between the two. Predecessors of Mr. Melton have made a bust of the job. that many of the best friends of the university grant, some giving as the reason therefor that the Legislature has not appropriated ' enough money to run the institution as it should be run. while others attribute its shortcomings to the personnel of the teaching corps, some of whom, it is claimed, are incflicicnt hut manage in one way ami another to keep their names on the payroll of the institution. Still another group ot friends of the university say tluu it never will attain the stature ot a real university so long as it is it* t li.k ?.?.* ?* !?* .? ... .... ......I. .... u Klul'H of Columbia n11*11 who construe suggestions coming from outside that city as to the mainigement and policy of the institution as so much impudence. However distasteful it may he to real friends of the university who live in Columbia to lie told the fact, it is a fact they should know nevertheless that there is a widespread belief throughout the State that the university is by and large a Columbia institution, although it is, of course, supported by State funds. The sooner t liesc friends of the university give this matter the attention its importance deserves, the better it will he for the institution. The Times does not undertake to say, it is not undertaking to create the impression, that there is ground for the belief that the university is working primary for the interests of the city of Columbia, but it does say that many citizens of the State are of that opinion. The handicap of lack of experience in managing an important educational institution along with the disadvantage of not being in close touch with college life some will say was overcome in the ease ?f If ?. - - ui iur. lueiion uy tne tact that lie is a citizen of Columbia ami the university is located in Columbia. If Governor Parker of Louisiana does not institute a damage suit against "Grit," a weekly paper published at Williamsport, Pa., it probably will be because he does not consider the game worth the candle. In its issue of April 2 "Grit" offended grievously against Governor Parker by asserting that he was one of .three American governors under criminal indictment and by placing him in a class with Small of Illinois and Robertson of Oklahoma, who apparently roust sooner or later defend themselves against charges of illegal transactions in connection with financial affairs, the former neonse*! appropriating to his own uses a large sum belonging to the people and the latter with accepting a bribe to influence his action in an official matter. Men learned in the 1 law doubtless would tell the Louisiana governor that he has a good cause of action against the Pennsylvania paper and if he should decide to make the most of it the country will watch the progress of the case with unusual interest. "Grit" describes itself as a newspaper whose "influence flows continuouly 011, through all parts of the country." If it has .. ~ a! * I i a! A I I a iiaiiou-wiue circulation, 11 couiu inore accurately describe itself as a sewer through which flows ait unending stream of polluted news to every section of the country. No question is ever settled until it is settled right. In a speech in New York city a few nights ago Governor Cox urged the Democratic party to continue the campaign to have this country enter the League of Nations and attributed the business depression to the failure of America to take its place in the league. Governor Cox is not alone in the opinion that with the experience through which the country has gone in tlie last year as a guiding star there will be recorded a distinct victory for the right in determining the question of entering the league when the verdict of the people is again rendered at the ballot box. Deceit is sure to find a party out just as sin finds the individual out, and it has not taken the country a lifetime to realize to what extent it was deei ived by the Republican party in the last presidential election. All sorts of fair promises were made by that party as to what it would do to relieve the reaction all knew was to come following the close of the World iv 111? lint not out' of 1 liose promises has been redeemed. To conclude that the Republican party will be retained in power, with an inescapable record of insincerity and inefficiency staring it in the face, is to place a low estimate on the intelligence of the country. South Carolina has seven members of the lower house of Congress. All are lawyers, save Mr. Kulmer of the Columbia district. Lawyers are needed in Congress, but there is no reason why practically our entire State delegation should be composed of "legal lights," some of whose brilliancy isn't strong enough to illuminate many dark corners. The mistake we make in choosing our COOPE1 MARK i 4 We believe tha keting of Cotton w bilization of the pi greatest product a dorse the eampaigi of the South Coroli Cooperative Associ We eommend ' eting to the farmers for we believe it to terest of the farme We will be gl we know of the pi tion and talk over tl r* < mr . nrst nan Operated Under the Si United Statei ' \ ? I #* \ THE FORT Mm representatives in Congress is in laying too much stress on the speeches the candidates make in the campaign. "I'll vote for Jim Smith for Congress.'' says Mr. Average Citizen,4 4 because 1 heard all the candidates and his speech was the best." Jim Smith probably had spent six months preparing the speech ; but it pleased Mr. Average Citizen and got Mr. Smith the job he was seeking. When Mr. Smith rose from his seat on the floor of the house to make practically the same speech, however, he looked around shortly afterward and saw that most of the members had hied themselves to the cloak rooms or to the house office building. Speech making is at a discount in the house of representatives and one of these days the people of South Carolina are going to wake up to the fact that it would be to their interest, to inquire whether the men they send to Congress are able to do more than make fine speeches. trom tin? South ( aroliua point of view. The Kov. .J. F. Norris, evangelist. who is known as the "Texas Tornado." is saying some hard things about the flapper in a series of meetings he is holding ill New York city. Hear him express tho opinion that "the flapper will bring about this country's downfall as surely as Delilah caused Samson's," and that they "think more of their eyelashes and'mule' hosiery than they do of decency. Our statesmen." he continues, "are scrapping the battleships; they ought to be slapping the flappers." In a news story sent out a day or two ago by the Associated Press quoting a number of governors as saying that industrial conditions were much improved over what they were a few weeks or months ago. it was noticeable that Trinkle of Virginia was the only Democratic governor who fell for the smart piece of Republican propaganda. Every sane man knows that the depression is going to last until the country is relieved of the Congress now sitting is Washington; but this is election year and the most natural thing for the Republicans to do was to call upon their old friend the Associated Press to try to pull them out of a hole. NATIVE ETING * it Cooperative Mariil result in a stance of the South's nd we heartily ini for the formation ua Cotton Growers' ation. 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