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J; . $l?e (Cam&pn (JUjrmudr 1109 North Broad Street Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JNO. M. CANNON, Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: AlbSubscriptions Payable In Advance One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at the-Post Office at Camden, S. C. I IL? ' All articles submitted ifor publication must be signed by the author., : \ ???-?-? Friday, August 27, 1943 ? Oh! 'when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, i And like'a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year? ?Tennyson. ASUMPTION OF AUTHORITY The Chronicle is informed by high official sources that I the self styled "acting president" oi Winthrop College lias I taken it upon himself to raise and lower certain teachers' salaries in that institution within the past few weeks. This official source of information points out that such action does not come under the jurisdiction of a president, acting president, group or other committee connected with the college?but rather under the Board of Trustees. The Board is the only authority delegated to exercise any powers in this direction. As taxpayers we demand to know why this "acting president" has concerned himself with things of this nature which come entirely outside his scope of authority. At the outset we refered to Dr. Fraser as the selif styled I "acting president." If we are to believe official sources of I information this statement is not only correct but, to be fair and accurate, an understatement. The Board of Trustees has never confered any such title on Dr. Fraser and in fact appointed an "Emergency Committee" deliberately to keep from having an acting president. This committee was dele-| gated the powers that under normal conditions belong to the [ president and is supposed to act in the capacity of president until a permanent head for the institution is agreed upon, selected and installed. I Yet this newspaper and other businesses and individuals in South Carolina have received communications signed by the "acting president." The matter of the acquisition of the title and the tampering with prevailing salaries set by the Board seem to be a gross assumption of authority?and one that should be immediately investigated and properly acted upon by our good Governor, who by virtue of his office, is ex-officio chairman of the Board oif Trustees. I AVAILABLE LOCATION Last week's editorial on the deplorable traffic situation caused by the present location of the bus terminal and the absence of adequate local ordnances to control this public hazard brought no little comment from interested citizens. All that has come to the attention of The Chronicle has been favorable towards the view that was taken in the article and the good people of Camden seem to be ready to demand that something be done aboot the matter immediately in the interest of public safety Several people have suggested the use olf the building formerly occupied by the Roxy Cafe just east of the Camden Hotel as a bus depot. That seems to be a logical suggestion for the following reasons: I (1) Because it has large lots on either side that could be used by parked busses for loading and unloading passengers, the traffic hazard caused by the busses using the public streets for that purpose could be entirely eliminated. The vehicles could either go around the building or could go through from DeKalb Street to Rutledge Street. This is the type of arrangement that is successfully carried out in mostl towns.. (2) Such a move would place the bus terminal nearer to the uptown or shopping district which would provide greatT er conveniences to the travelers as well as a source of revenue for the business houses of Camden. Hotels, restaurants, shops, department stores, the postoffice, drug stores and other business houses are convenient and accessable to the suggested location. No passenger with a fifteen minute wait would venture uptown from the present terminal. WHAT ABOUT RUSSIA? | Apparently Russia is concerned that most of the allied leaders are spending a great deal of time talking about "writing the peace" instead of about winning the war. j Certainly the great Soviet nation, who has lost more men and killed more Germans than all of the allied nations combined, whatever her faults or virtures might be, will have no little to say when it actually comes to "writing the peace." But first we must win the war before we or anybody can dictate the terms of a just peace. Maybe if the great international statesmen would treat! Russia as an equal partner instead of a red headed step child upon whom all of the hard work is imposed she would feel more inclined to enter into conferences and other types of conversational cooperation. She no doubt feels, and rightly so, that she has earned the claim of a large pen when the final writing is done. Allied statesmen can rest assured that she'll be there | to do her part of the scribbling. It would be more becoming -and more equitable to us to allow !her to do it gracefully. WINTHROP The Winthrop College strife is reaching a higher temperature according to reports from informed sources. The Chronicle's mails are increasingly swelled with communications from many sources urging action, requesting additional information, seeking extra copies of back issues, making suggestions and commenting generally on the plight of the South Carolina College for women. We appreciate all of these letters and hope that we will find "time to answer each one individually. Meanwhile, if we do not get around to this undertaking we want every person who has written to jis to know that we deeply appreciate their interest and encouragement. In this connection, we call especial attention to our column, IN THE MAIL, where we have this week reproduced letters from outstanding educators and political leaders giving their views on the situation. For obvious reasons some of these writers" have remained annonymous. 1' ?? I IN THE MAIL | V I I . I 111 IIII American Aeeo. of University Profs. August 0, 1943. Mr. John M. Cannon, Editor The Catndsn Chronicle, Camden, Bouth Carolina, * Dear Mr. Cannon: Thank you for your letter of July 30. I am glad to learn of your plane to publish this Association'* report of Its Investigation of oondltlone at Wlnthrop-College. The facts set forth in our report, which you Indicate have been verified by your Inreatlggtlon, should be brought to the attention of the citizens of South Carolina, You are correct about the Board of Trustees being at fault In this situation and about the Board of Trustees being part of the administration. On August 2, we sent you two ooples of-our April, 1942, Bulletin Under separate cover we are today sending you a copy of our June, 1943, Bulletin. This Issue carries the listing of the admfhlBtratlon of Witfc throp College ou this AssoclatloiA censured list, # Thanks for the copy of The Cam den Chronicle. I have read It with Interest, p&rticularily the article about Winthrop College. Your Interest In tho welfare of Winthrop College Is, ! assure you, appreciated by this Association. We wish you well In your efforts to further the welfare of higher education in South Carolina. The misrepresentations of the nature and the purposes of this Association by some editors In 8ou(h Carolina have been quite depressing. % For that reason your Interest In what this Association sought to do and Is seeking tb do for Winthrop College Is particularity cheering news. Thanks again for your letter. (iialph B. Hlmstead, Editor. UP IN ARMS The Camden Chronicle has broken out In a righteous rash over the "deplorablo" Winthrop college situation, having devoted amost its entire editorial comment to tho subject for some weeks. It certainly seems that a college of Wlnthrop's size and wealth of buildings and equipment should have a governing official and a rating second to none in the nation. ?Tho Fort Mill Times. To the Editor of The Camden Chronicle: I know little of the Laurens Advertiser. But (even If he had not heard of the report before) by reading your editorial last week the editor should havo learned that the "unpublished" A A UP report was printed in the official AAITP Bulletin in April 1942. Becauso of this report the current Bulletin lists Winthrop among Its "censured administrations"?that is. Winthrop is now officially on the black list of the Association. Any reputable college professor would, hesitate to accept appointment there, since tho administration Is labeled as being untrustworthy. Nor should the said editor dismiss the American Association of University Professors, the American Association of University Women, and the Southern Association of Colleges ahjl Secondary Schools as "bureaus." The AAUP Is to the college professor what the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association are to the doctor and lawyer; It has thousands of members representing every first class college and university In this country, Its Bulletin goes to practically every college and university, Its Influence Is enormous?interpreting, as It does to the profession aa a whole, the recognized standards of all official accrediting bodies. The beloved founder of Winthrop, Dr. D. B. Johnson, tolled patiently in oider that the standing of his college might entitle his graduates to membership In the American Association of University Women. He never called it a "bureau." and nobody ever dared refer to him as being ''bu;eaurldden" merely becauso he knew that its standing with tho great educational associations renders a .college respectable or unrespectable. As to the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which has placed Winthrop on probation ond may eject it .this fall; tho Southern Association is tho final academic authority In this region. If Its conditions are not met and met by the date required, Winthrop credits will not be acceptable at any accredited institution. If to keep a college accredited Is to be "bureau-ridden," let the Laurens editor make the most of It. Anyone supporting Dean Fraser as , being Indifferent to those "educational organizations with long names" does the Dean a disservice. The AAUP report explicitly stated | tho groat South Carolinian, Dr. D. B. ( Johnson, had "expected, received nnd , deserved" loyalty. It did not edmmend tho activities of ex-Presldknt Phelps, who Imperiled the standing ] which Dr. Johnson had fortified throughout his lifetime. To expand < mere physical plant, at State and ] Federal expense, has been common ] during tho last decade among state- < supported institutions. To be black- , Hated by the American Association of University Professors, recommended j for ejection by the American As so- ' elation of University Women, and j given a year's warning before possible 1 expulsion by tho Southern Assocln- J tion Is more uncommon, though not < an enviable position for any college. When the Board of Trustees sits < idly hy from April 1942, fully cognl- < zant of farts publicized In college fcfr. i rles everywhere, the newspapers and 1 citizens of this State must either i force tho present Board to conscious- ? ness or replace it with an efficient ( body that is, if South Carolina wants I to save its college. It Is simple t enough. Tho investigating associa- i Hons substantially agree on what t must ho done. Any South Carolinian 1 knows, who read the reprinted report t in last week s Camden Chronicle. The < Board must select a president who I ran read and act Intelligently, with- 1 r>iit fear or horse-trading with pdlttlcians Dean Fraser has been at c Winthrop for four years. If he bad 1 had qualities of leadership, he could t r /.* huvo demonstrated them. He would have won tne faith of the faculty, and he would not have, won the support of those who dally with compromise and delay while Wlnthrop stands at the edge of disaster, already crippled and partially discredited. Wlnthrop college was built by a strong man, a South Carolinian, who did not indulge In compromise or dilatory toying with destiny. He "expected, received and deserved" loyalty. Let the Wlnthrop Board correct its tragic blunders and seek another president of his stature. Let the Wlnthrop alumnae on the Board either make themselves effective or depart as "unconstitutional." A Friend of Wlnthrop College. Blshopville, R. 3 August 9, 1943 Camden Chronicle, Dear Mr. Cannon: T am enclosing money order for $2 for subscription to The Chronicle. We enjoy every issue of It. Yours truly, Mrs. L. Luke Davis. Dear bir. Start: Gee! what a wonderful time I did have with the Camden papers-?trying to read them all in one day?and then sent them on down into Florida ' to my sister-in-law, who of course, was a Camden girl. That's a fine paper Cannon Is putting out in Camden Every headlino a wow and that advertising campaign hits the bell right on the button. It's so different and so crammed with news, which of course is greatly due to the Air Base and what it Is doing for Camden, thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Woodward. Sincerely, Mrs. J. K. Wltherspoon. Editor's Note: The above letter is from Mrs. J. K. Wltherspoon to Mr. E. T. Start. Mrs. Wltherspoon was formerly with the Kirkwood hotel, Camden. She is now with Hotel Windsor, Elizabethtown, N. Y. Mr. E. T. Start is at Saranac Lake, N. Y? sixty miles from Elizabethtown. The Chronicle hears from him frequently. The Fourth Estate Conducted By ~ JNO. M. CANNON WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Known as "The Sage of Emporia, William Allen White has been a major figure in the American Journalistic world for half a century. More than 70 years of living have expanded his influence from the narrow confines of Lyon county, Kansas, to encompass the globe. In the life and character of this neighborly, rotund small town newspaperman who has chatted with great diplomats and obscure farmers alike, can be found the key to his greatness. Essentially William Allen White Is Kansas. He is typical of the people he writes for, the "backhone of the nation." Behind his blue syes, gleaming with a subtle humor and a modest understanding, William Allen White is the "Scattergood Baines" of his Emporia, and thus, of his nation. It Is for his genial philosophy, his quick wit, his sage advice that fame . has beckoned this Kansas editor from his swivel chair in a small cluttered office to the head of the table crowded with the leaders of the nation. When surreys filled carriage houses and bustles were the latest fashion, William Allen White left his position as an editorial writer on the Kansas City Star and with $3,000 borrowed from friends, bought the Emporia 3axette. There he has remained. From 1895 to 1842 Mr. White has Jally offered his 6,600 subscribers his >pinlons on topics ranging from the itate of the world to his wife's new lower-bedecked hat. In a position to lamd* any office he would hdve, or >dit any newspaper between Seattle ind Buenos Aires, Mr. White Jn?yr? hat his life Is In Emporia. -He kno*s hat to put on a detestable ."plug hat" vould take away the wit which Is he result of years of middle-class lving, destroy the point of rlew which mdears him to the hearts of millions >f Americana like him. and ruin the nlnd which ao adequately now aids n solving national problems. William Alien White Ja a ?reat man >f our time, not because he writes oul-stlrrtngty on the national sltuaton, not because he speaks with con4 AO v " *rr. W ?- m* ,. + % - * V "jfc " I vlction about the world fronts or about army conditions at Fort Laavenworth, Kansas. Ho Is great solely because he presents through the columns of his small town newspaper the cross-section. of the nation, because he is slncer T~antf earnest in his belief of the ultimate triumph of good and the shining future of the world. i DAN CUPID AQTIVE OVER THE WEfiK-END. Dr. Maurice Clark, rector of Grace Episcopal church in Camden, just returned from a six-weeks vacation in the North Carolina mountains, officiated at two wedding ceremonies here Saturday evening, August 21. Thomas Gribble McKinney of Highland. N. C., and Miss Minnie Sandell Eargle of Columbia, became man and wife in a ceremony which took place at 6:45 o'clock in the Episcopal Rectory. Aviation Cadet Walter Jacob Courtley of WJlkin8burg, Pa.; and Miss Gertrude Mildred Jack of the same place, were united in marriage by Dr* Clarke in Grace Church at 7:30 p'clock Saturday evening. George Washington was a book collector and a devotee of the theatre. Weekly News Uttet From Liberty Hill pfc. Stephen Richards McCra* has been stationed afOulfport RuS Miss., has been transferred to ?! rory Field, Colorado. M.Use? ^!?*e and Marlon Riches were Sunday visitors of their ?w Mrs. Annie Herlot of Blshopvliie Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Bankhmui . Chester, and Mr. and Mrs. Chest. Frances and son, Bill, of Hock Yhii were week-end visitors of Mr* i G. Richards. ' Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Clements so daughters/ Misses Anule Belle > Lottie, of Lynchburg, were ykitS here Sunday feveulng. ^ Miss Margaret Richards has retan ed after attending a special ooura In mu?lo. Mrs. Bakes Warren and chlldre*. Allendale, and Mr. $nd Mrs. Chsvti ,Pressley are vlsttthg their motka Mrs. R. J. Wardlaw, Sr. ^ Mrs. J. O. Richards and daughter Miss Battle Richards, wont to Km lng last week to visit Mrs. M i Screels and family. ' Mr. U. P. McCrae, who has bee employed in Charleston for some Mm spent the week-end at home. G. R. Clements spent the week* with his daughter, Mrs. L. R Sail and family, and visited the town* < Kershaw and Lancaster. Mr. B. L. Jones of the Mackey-Jot* company, was a Camdep visitor Tua day. Miss Sophie and I>al Richards visiting relatives in Nishopvllle q Sunday. , - '* I state -Copstable T. II. Mills and cO-worker were here this week. ! oar driver without license was err* ed and a fine collected. Mrs. R. Frank Bskridge and bal of Wilmington, N. C., are visiting ^ parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Cunnlni ham. Miss Mary Cunningham, tft has been visiting her, returned bos recently. Mrs. L. B. Salters of Florence^ rived-yesterday for a visit mother, Mrs. F. J. Hay. Mrs. Salts will be remembered as Miss 8opb Hay-. St. Augustine, Fla., is the olds city in the United States. ~ . ' j SISj oPtCKOMVnENDUY OKEEP TRjlSH OUT | ?PICK BEFORE WEATHER DAMAGE ?DONt MIX GOOD COTTON WITH BAD WJM/m ? * . ^'Ifr- ? V . GOINO TO SCHOOL ISN'T ALL and /zdtimefo/ I * ' ? 1 ' ' . *f* CCHOOL is more than learn inglessona?it's learn& mg a way of life. Yes, it's learning to get along with all sort* of people! You can help your children in school! Help by , _\. feeding them sensibly, getting them to bed early#/ listening to their problems. And, before you even send them off to school, yoo can help by dressing them wisely and well. See that they get shoes that sif^pbj* their feet#' clothes that fit, dutdoor things that are warm. That's the kind we offer at Penney'al ; When you outfit your boy at Penney's# he looks like the real boy he is. If you shop here for JJW ? daughter, her friends will approve hir style. tt Penney's knows the children in this town?knows _ "what they are wearing." We know how important, thrift is to mothers, and we ofitrtop rshiss We bowtfaesethmphgnilClll St this town?we're part df it. Your neighbors serve jroa when you shop at Penney's. Penney's is as native tp ?h?s town as the name on I the railroad station. 1 ?^ % u fir#-' jffli