The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-29

sary to keep up the college machinery
and college plant; it failed to provide
one dollar for the employment of a
few additional teachers to care for
additional students next session; it
failed to make any provision to COM
plete the teachers home and the en-
largement of the library, both in
course of erection by action of pre-
vious legislature.
"While denying Winthrop college
the money necessary for running ex-
penses and to complete buildings al
ready in course of erection, it gave
to another state college over $4,000
to employ six additional teachers.
$1,000 to raise salaries of teachers
already employed and S62,50O for re-
pairing old buildings. We do not say
these appropriations ought not to
have been made for another institu-
ton, but we do say most emphatlcally
that if made, then Winthrop's re-
quest for running expenses and to
employ some new teachers to take
care of $50 new students next ses-
sion ought not to have been denied.
"It is clear to any one that discrlm-
nation was shown against the one
college established and maintained
by the state for the education of the
women of the state. The appropri-
alton bill just passed carried appro-
priations, directly and indirectly, OF
approximately s1,400,OOO for the
three state colleges for men with an
enrolment of approximately LOO
students while carrying an approprla-
ton of anly 1898, ,694.60 for the one
state college for women with an en-
rollment of approximately 1,1OO stu
dents.
'Where is teh fairness and business
to the women of the state in such un-
fair treatment of the states college
for women?"
These figures show that the legisla-
ture gave to the four higher institu-
ton of learning some hundred or
more thousands of dollars more
than to common schools of the state.
And in these colleges there are, ac-
cording to the News, 1,70o boys and
LOO girls, a total of $500. In the
common schools of the state there are
10000 white children, not to speak
of the 100000 negroes at all. This
is around SO per cent Of the children
of the state. And these children, or
great majority of them, will never
have any other school and never
be able to go to college. And these
boys. and girls in college should be
able to pursue their college courses
without the aid of the state at all,
though we are not opposed to the
state supporting colleges, and yet we
are now and have always been OF the
opinion that the state has been more
generous and liberal to it's colleges
than it has been to its common
schools. Suppose some one who IS
good at figures just make the calcu-
lation how much more per capita is
given to the boys and girls in the COL
leges than is given per capita 20 the
boys and girls in the common schools
and who must be dependent IN the
very nature of the circumstances al
most entirely upon these schools for
all the education they get.
We grant you that the legislature
made this year a big increase in the
appropriation to these schools but
look what it did for the colleges and
then reach your conclusion. And be-
sides that the legislature at a previ-
Gus session passed law guarantee
ing certain things to the common
schools if the people themselves would
do certain things. The people met
the conditions and the legislature fails
by around $125,000 in one case and
100000 in another to provide the
means to carry out it's own act. In
guaranteeing seven months term at
a specified salary for the teachers
where the districts did certain things
the legislature fell short around
S125,000 to provide the means. We
do not like to make comparisons, but
since the News has done so we feel
that we might do the same thing for
it's enlightenment. And the teachers
in these schools must comply with the
law to get anything and to do so ma
nv of them will have to scale the SAL
ary because the amount provided Will
pay only about 80 per cent of the