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(fiambrti flUfrottirlr Sj 1109 North Broad Street Camden,'8. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY "" " ?>" ? 'fV " 1 1 ?* 11 '" | ' JNO. M. CANNON, Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: All Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Ypar .-. .7, $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted tfor publication must be signed by the author. Friday, August 13, 1943 BRIEF VACATION We have by no means told the whole story of the troubles at Winthrop College. But we have decided to let the matter rest for a week or two. In the meantime we are making a comprehensive survey of political and educational leaders in South Carolina in an attempt to determine from them what, in their opinion, would be a feasible solution to the problems facing the South Carolina College for Women. When these opinions have been made available to us it , is ourtintantion to sift them down to the most practical theory, basea on facts in the case, and present it to you in these edi torial columns. INSTRUCTION IN MANNERS ^ Parents sometimes ask how they can teach good manners to their children. Someone remarks that the first step in that direction is frequently to teaclr such manners to the parents. As a rule, children imitate the manners olf their parents. They may think they want to be independent and do as they like. But, as a usual thing, the influence of parents, who are ladies and gentlemen, makes itself felt on children. They feel the inferiority created "by bad manners. Without being conscious of it, they gradually slip into the pattern of manners < which the parents have set for them. The children of good parents sometimes go wrong in moral conduct, but they usually reallze that good manners are a valuable asset. They seek the power and influence which good manners create. i , -| - n - . - )- - 0 EMANCIPATE THE COLLEGES n 4' South Carolina's state college system, the University, Winthrop, Clemson, the Citadel, the Medical college, the State Coliege for negroes, have he en and are subject to interference and control and degradation by politicians. The time has come when they can be set free of influ- , ences destructive of education. The News and Courier pro- < poses a plan to effect it. After paying the state debt, exclusive of the highway bonds, the treasury will have a surplus of $4,811,000. The highway department finances itself. Revenues from inheritance taxes should be segregated and used to create an endowment fund for the colleges. Inheritance taxes are a levy on capital. They take lumps of money, or property, from the accumulation of the thrifty, the abler and more successful producers and savers. It is wasteful and foolish for the state to spend the revenues from them for current expenses, as it would be for a citizen, month by month and year by year to dig into his capital to meet his grocery bills or for a corporation to dig into capital to pay dividends. Where the inheritance tax revenues invested by the state in stock olf) itself or in bonds to support the colleges, legislative appropriations for them would diminish as, the income from the endowment increased. Years would pass before the endowment would be huge but it would be built up rapidly by annual receipts of $300,000. The inheritance tax revenues, will rapidly increase. In a decade they may amount to $1,000,000 a year. As often as the general assembly meets the college executives are compelled to appear before its committees in forma pauperis, bogging for appropriations. Prominent legislative leaders voting the appropriations demand and receive personal rewards. They elect themselves trustees of the institutions, alumni and alumnae of the colleges assisting. Some of the colleges are comparatively independent, the Citadel notable among them. In the past, the Citadel also has had unpleasant experiences. The state could have, as The News and CoOrier has sometimes suggested, a university system in wfhich the six institutions would be members. It could have a board- of twenty trustees, two elected by each house, two appointed by the supreme court, two by the Governor, and two elected by the faculties of the six colleges, no member of a faculty being eligible for election. The twenty-first trustee could be chosen by the people voting in the general election. The trustees should be elected for long terms, eight or ten years, and the terms of office of four should expire at four-year intervals of time. The income from the inheritance tax endowment would be apportioned by the trustees to the several institutions, which indeed would become one institution. The present loss by duplication of schools in the colleges would come to a speedy end. For a time, legislative appropriations supplementing income from endowment would be necessary. They would be appropriated to the system, not to the colleges, and should be subject to apportionment by the board of trustees. The permanency of the arrangement now proposed by The News and Courier should be insured by constitutional amendment. Otherwise, it could be abolished by politicians in office at anyv"&e$sion of the general assembly. Expenditure of inheritance tax revenues for current wants is, we repeat, the burning of capital. Why should the state waste capital in a way that no man in his right mind j would waste it? The state colleges are now the tools, the playthings, the victims of politicians. Until they shall be emancipated, the cause of "higher education" in South Carolina will be hopeJess. In the sense that many other states have it, higher education is non-existent in South Carolina, and the people do not kno?w it. Most of the college executives are afraid of their shadows, or rather, of the politicians over-shadowing them. Unless something shall be done, education in South Carolina will sink lower and lower, be more and more degraded. ?Charleston News and Courier. The fourth term candidacy of the president might be defeated by the election of his wife to succeed him, and in all probability it would result in his complete and perpetual retirement. Come what-may, pr w(ho may, The News and Courier is opposed to fourth termers.?Cherleston News and I , Courier. * J~ TP9i IF' 99% fS 9 ' * '9 Conducted By JNO. M. CANNON IMtCONt**UCTtON "ItiKW Maury W. Grady or Osarti* belongs beside Henry Clay In tlia page* of history. Both Clay and Orady were known aa "the Great I'aclftcetor." Both Clay and Grady reached thouaanda with their ornlort and the shuedneaa of their views/And Grady, aa an editor and journalist reached millions through hla paper. Beginning hla newapaper career In the dark days of Reconstruction, Grady became the apoatle of the New South. At a time when many editors were "aelllng out" to the carpetbagger#, Grady remained loyal to the Ideal of the Integrity of the press. Forbidden by hla employer to publlah unpleeeant truths about corrupt city politicians, he bought otat the two rival papers'of the town, combined them, and continued to print the truth. To Grady, mora than to any other one man, belongs the oredit for healing the ugly wounds of the Civil War. LeO had surrendered to , Grant at Appomattox but the war was not over. The southern- people, though conquered, still held to a fierce and uncon querable pride. The North In victory remained vindictive and the country was torn with hate ahd suspicion. Into this threatening breach stepped Henry Grady, the editor and man. He preached the simple creed of peace and tolerance. He knew that real peace for the country could come on* ly through true understanding between the two sections and to this end he strove all his life, Aa editor first of the Atlanta Herald then of the Constitution and as a newspaperman in New York he urged the people of the nation to "let the dead past bury Its dead," and go on from there. He encouraged northern immigration to the South and crusaded for the rebuilding of the section through Its own material resources. In his speech, "The New South," before the New England Society In New York, In the eighties he paid tribute to the North and gave a new picture of the South to the world. He explalftdd the attitudes Of hit people, pointed out that they wfr^ [willing to accept the results of tkq war and to work together with the rest Af the nation to build a stronger more united republic. He urged that the South be allowed to fltdaanee Industrially as a means of settling ben economic problem. ' 1 - * * '"J He became famous as the spokesman and . the adviser of his people. He represented the contribution of journalism in leading the building Of a strong nation In time of peace as well as war. His sympathetic understanding, his logic and his qptlmlsm flowed in the columns of his humanized editorial writings. In the North his influence brought tolerance; In the South, courage. To both he brought understanding that led to a forgetfulness of the past and a cooperation for the future. He died at thirty-nine but it} his short life as a friend to the people, a patriot to his pountry he poured balm on the wounds left by the Civil War and hastened the return of a united people. Through this great Editor who typifies the might of the printed word we recognize and pay tribute to the power of Journalism and the part it plays In rebuilding a shattered world. may know that he doean't hold that I gentleman In th? highest-esteem. .Except for that. The Chronicle bears no adverse evidence as to the qualifications of this Dr. Eraser, but expresses the correct opinion that the .presl* dency should not'be turned over to a "stranger" without a searching Invest tigation of his qualifications' br'"Jack of qualifications"?<whlfch latter may have some significance. ' ,The Chronlcle's editor. nnMljrecentv ly a resident of Rook HU1, hints darkly of rings and other .selfish interests that are palling ''Winthrop down from ner zealous position of leadership ", He retninds his readers of the several investigations made last year by certain educational organizations with long names which might be briefly described as rating bureaus and laments the unfavorable light the reports shed on our largest girlB' 'educational institution. Thus far, The Advertiser doesn't catch on to all that The Chronicle is talking about. It understands that The Chronicle thinks that something is ''rotten in Denmark" and has a good deal of evidence to prove it but appears up until now to be holding back something on us. This week, though, readers of The Chronicle have been promised the real "low down" oris some of the skulduggery. This will be contained in the full text of an investigation of the college by the American Association of University Professors, one of the "rating bureaus" already referred to. Incidentally, the fact that The Chronicle has in its possession one of these hitherto unpublished reports indi cates fairly well! how It stands on the question of the "rating bureaus." This exposure should create the "sell-out" ^ve "referred to In the outlet. 'If we catch the significance of the ndwanee 'publicity, the report of the bureau should jar something loose oxer. In Rock Hft) even though the results might turn out opposite from that obviously hoped for by The Chronicle. i The 'Advertlier never heard of "one" Dr. JlVas^r before. It agrees that the* fahoald he Investigated and. .Jf he Is being 'Seriously considered, we -would think that) he has already been investigated. We also hold to thei theory that there ^re men in South Carolina capable from the standpoint of scholarship to fill the presidency. However, it is barely possible that whoever has the matter in charge has Investigated all i the South Carolina possibilities but has found them bounded to the bureaus. Maybe that is the reason they are not being considered and the reason why the committee may be looking at this Dr.' Fraser.?The Laurens Advertiser. Wlnthrop College The Camden Chronicle is attracting considerable attention by a series of editorials dealing with the management (or mismanagement) of Wlnthrop College. The Advertiser admits its complete Ignorance of the conditions complained of, but agrees that if they are half as bad as The Chronicle thinks, then they are crying aloud for correction.?The Chesterfield Advertiser. , ' uo^^7^cts 'i truverale* about Winthrop eJJ? ? JlMgireeldeucy. It 1H Riv|ug*5* Able apace to feproducta? ou^ Aub^t Of The CA?4t?!^Bl A year wd a halt ago ^ /I j1 and Courier yotoAted again,tJL*jH sage of ah act by the gl,IUjr-1l*,JH^H bly conferring on Winthrop'a asaoeiathm the prlvUege Cf some of It# trustees. o w*tn^f The set was passed. Obrio*., B~? 1h unconstitutional. The sembly cannot delegate to a ?2L*B f of persons the control or partUi'B I1 trol of a state-wide ami 8tates?!^SB I ed oollegs.* I With equal propriety I thf power of electing trustees ora!M I throp could be oonferred by tbl lAture on the Roman Cathoiu?^!^ff Methodists, the railroad brak^L^^I union, the state press, the association as upon WlnthrppV.v.7? Usually, the way the alimms J alumni association of tt < composed of 10 to 15 per cent o??JBi w of Its living graduates And the Atlon's affairs are conducted by lafB 15 per cent of the membership W The News and Courier belter'* tkaB*"I the affairs of Winthrop should be ?jB ' tUated, and The Camden cWiiB performs a public service i., nUh,SB log editorials about them wSuoTlH not saying that The News' and rJfl ler underwrites its Articles. (Continued on next pagel I FRIDAY, AUG. 13 You Cant Halp Coving The,, Menl'l "AIR FORCE" I JOHN GARFIELD & GIG VninJ , -T |-| j,,, ^ SATURPAY, AUG. 14 NUFF 8EDI IB DON "RID" BARRY In .^B 'CARSONi CITY CYCLONE'fl Also 4 8eHal , "G-Men V?. BUak Drag*" HAnd Comadlca mon.-tues, Aug isn I ^v .'lUijjg *ii* ... "WHITE CARGO* With HEDY LAMARR and WAL- I TER PIDQEON A Grand Pleural , j j WEDNESDAY, AUG. H | b Here's a Thrilling Picture! . "HEAPING FOR GOD'S b COUNTRY" ,, # , V" i , : . , With WILLIAM LUNDIOAN end VIRGINIA DALE - < t T ' I THURS.-FRI., Aug. 1M0 I j 'FIRST COMES COURAGE' 1 With MERLE OBERON and BRIAN AHERNI haiglarI I IN THE MAIL | Should Be Sell-Out This week's Issue of The Camden Chronicle should be a sell-out. For a week or so The Chronicle, edited by John M. Cannon, son of the late John M. Cannon of this city, has been commenting sharply on what it describes as the "shameful situation" at Winthrop college as a result of "Internal politics and weak administration". The immediate "situation" which The Chronicle deals with is a "movement" to name "one" I)r. Mowat F. Fraser as president of the institution. When a writer describes somebody as "one" Mr. or Dr. So-and-So, you State Theatre I Kershaw, S. C. 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