The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09

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iberality that is more than com
mendable in the face of her own fin
ancial troubles.
Half Million Year for Clemson
In the first place the state agricul
tural college at Clemson receive:
annually the entire gross income
from the fertilizer license tags.
This is by statute, and the sum
averages around $275,000 a year.
1t has gone as high as 100000.
When the legislature met in January
1921, the fear if agricultural de-
preston gripped tn emembers, and
rather than see Clemson suffer from
the \slightest embarrassment it au'
thorized loan from the treasury OF
$15O,OOO for 1921, in the event the
Institution should need it.
Talking about the solicitude OF
parent for child, when the latter is
somewhere battling the elements of
uncertainty, there is no more i'm
pressive illustration, in the history
of school legislation, of states
tender sare and consideration for
one of it's treat, useful institutions,
than is written in the lines of this
statute.
1t is not solicitude for "Clemson." "
as an inanimate thing-but solici-
tude for the welfare, the future, the
highest interest of the young men
and the young women, the girls and
boys of South Carolina.
That isno all that Clemson gets
each year, by any means. The. ap-
preparation bill for 1921 carried
$226,147.15 in addition, including the
match fund for the Smith-Lever ex-
tension aid; all of which is for the
conduct of it's public service activi-
ties, as, for instance, tick eradica-
tion, agricultural research, etc. -
Here is $5OO,OOO a year for South
Carolina's great agricultural col
lege, in a state that produces, all
told, only s6,OOO,OOO in revenues a
year.
l. Don't forget that
South Carolina has no inheritance
tax; no income tax; no EXCISE tax on
gasoline. Her occupational taxes are
low.
Leading the Way in School Support
Now about the university.
Appropriations for 1921 amounted
to $243,355.
1t must be understood that the
University Of South Carolina does
not mean System" of schools.
1t stands upon its OWE footing, as
do all the other institutions.
How about the Citadel? That is
the State Military college.
There is one-half-mill state levy
for that institution, which will
amount to practically $25O,00O a
year. The 1921 appropriations ex-
elusive of this amount to $252,315,
including a building appropriation
of 100000. This makes a half mil
lion year.
What of Winthrop college, the
great industrial normal?
The 1921 appropriation for this
institution amounted to $398,694.6O.
The State Medical college in 1921
gets 100000; the negro college
$4,000; the school for the deaf and
blind $161 900, and the state depart
ment of education $1,OOO,0O0 in
round figures for guaranteeing
school consultations, extension of
school terms, construction of new
buildings, and so on, in the states
great common school system.
The story reads like a romance.
How does she do it?
By gritting, her teeth and doing it
that's all.
And by placing the responsibility
of common school maintenance,
which always eats heavily into the
revenues of any state treasury, upon
the respective counties, using the
state appropriation as a state aid
to stimulate aggressiveness, effici-
ency and virile spirit in local
public educational activities.
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