The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-11-01
REPORT ON SCHOLARSHIPS.
by State Board OF Charities and Cor
rCctiOns.

AAsN oOu L odty
fully as directed by the scholarship
act the State board OF charities ant
corrections yesterday returned t.
the STATE board of education paper.
bearing on the appeals Of eight appli.
cants for scholarships whom the trus
tees of the University, Clemson an6
winthrop, respectively, decided were
financially ineligible to receive State
aid. Copies of the files in the eight
cases In which applicants for scholar.
ships appealed from the decisions OF
the above named boards of trustees
were transmitted by the State board
of education to the State board OF
charities and corrections on Oct. 25
with resolutions passed by the former
board on Oct. 1914 referring the
record in the appeals to the board of
charities and corrections and request
ing that 1t further investigate the
financial standing of competitors" and
report thereon to the board of educa.
ton, DR.. George b. Cromer, Of New
berry, chairman Of the board of
charities and corrections said:
1T does not appear directly or by
Implication that this act authorizes
the State board of education to re-
mand these cases, or that it author
ICES the State board Of charities t.
reinvestigate the applications"
Chairman CrOmer in his letter also
said:
Your attention is respectfully di-
rected to Section 4, Act No. sos, Acts
Of 1916: 81
A. Right of Appeal-That any
person or persons who may feel him
self aggrieved by any action Of any
board of trustees, done in pursuance
Of the terms of this Act, shall have
the right to appeal to and be heard
by the State Board of Education,
which said board shall, after hearing
all parties interested. reverse or at
firm the. action appealed from In so
for. as the same may relate TO law or
fact. a.f
1T appears to the State Board Of
Charities and Corrections Cd that
the appeal is from the boards Of trus-
tees Of the respective colleges and
not from the State board of Charities
and Corrections; ca that this Sec
ton Of the. Act gives the State Board
As required by the scholarship
act, passed by the General Assembly
of 1915, the, State Board of Charities
and Corrections. Investigated the
|{lpaNcial Ktat2ar afl sll the aRplicantz.
totalinaS s37,ffor competitive mental
examinations. The report on the fnan-
cial stt.tus of each applicant was
made by the board Immediately after
Its meeting of August 31-September 1,
to the board of trustees of the State
college in which a scholarship was
asked. Accompanying each report
was the recommendation Of the State
Board Of Charities and Corrections as
to whether the scholarship applicant
was In such financial condition that
he needed State aid. Then, on the
findings of the Board Of Charities and
Corrections, the trustees of the State
colleges decided what applicants for
scholarships were financially eligible
to receive them.
The eight applicants for scholar
ships who are appealing from the de-
cisiOns of the respective boards of
trustees are /:
Clemson College: j. 0. McCants,
Jr., Berkeley County; Alfred H%anckel,
Charleston county; d. Clyde Smith,
Colleton county; George c. Martin.
Greenwood county; l.. N. Lightsey.
Hampton county, inc George B. Pat
rick. Orangeburg county: &
University of South Carolina: G. A.
IAdotcIiIHS.
Winthrop college: Miss Ethel
StrOm, Mccormick county.
Of Education the power to hear all
parties interested. and CD that 1t
makes it mandatory upon the State
Board of Education, after hearing all
parties interested, to reverse or affirm
the action appealed from in SO far ms
the same may relate to law Or fact"
Chairman Cromer In his letter to
the Board Of Education further point
ed out:
I'm order to promote the speedy
determination of these matters, the
secretary, the assistant secretary anS
the fiscal agent of the State Board OF
Charities and Corrections investi.
gated the applications i'm the month
Of August, the State Board of Chart.