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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.
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EMANCIPATE THE COLLEGES
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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.
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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
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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
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"WHITE CARGO*
With HEDY LAMARR and WAL- I
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. H | b
Here's a Thrilling Picture! .
"HEAPING FOR GOD'S b
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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.
FRIDAY, AUG. 13 M\
"HELLO, FRISCO, j
HELLO" j I
Alice Faye~John Payne <^H
SATURDAY, AUG..14 H|
THUNDERING TRAILS''
Three Meaquiteers
SAT., Aug. 14,>10x30.p. m.rfl
"ONE DANGEROUS
NIGHT" j I
Warren William
MON.-TUES., Aug. 16-17 1 j
"THE MOON IS DOWN" I
Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Dor- I j
ris Bordon j j
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18 l|
"LET'S HAVE FUN" j
Bert Gordon-Marftaret Lindsay
THURSDAY, AUG. 19 { j
"ANDY HARDY'S |
DOUBLE LIFE" | |
Lewis Stone-Mickey Rooney .Hi
Matinee?Adults Me; children
under 12, 11e j
Evening?Adults, SOe; children H
under 12, 11c jfl
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buying more Mr BompSI
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