The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-04-14
WlNfARCP COLLEGE INJURED :
BY LACK OF APPROPRIATIONS

The following communication was
received by this Office for publication:
Winthrop Daughters of Chesterfield
County
Please read the following article.
and all who are interested in organiz-
ing Winthrop Daughters Chapters in
the county please communicate at
! once with Mrs. w. P. Pollock, Cheraw.
winthrop has done a noble and
wonderful work for the daughters of
South Carolina and now is our oppor-
tunity to help her by bringing our in
/ huence so to bear upon our legisla-
ture that they will see to it that the
one and only State institution for
women in South Carolina is provided ID
for adequately.
From The Rock Hill Record of
Thursday, March 10th:
r. Winthrop is Rock Hills greatest
asset of the State of South Carolina
We think our people should know how
winthrop was treated by the recen,
- legislature.
President Johnson, while at At.
lantic City, sent the following tele
gram to Senator Hart, who die fis
best to secure for Winthrop proper
treatment at the hands of the Legis-
lature:
- Il wish to give a solemn warning
that If Winthrop College is not given
more money than was porvided in
House Appropriation Bill for print.
= ing, fuel, electricity and gas, wages
janitors and laborers, repairs and fol
few additional teachers for addition.
al students, in accordance with item.
lied statement filed with the Finance
Committee, it will be seriously Grip.
pied, If not prevented from running
through the fiscal year Itemizcd
statements have been made so that
all concerned have the information
required. If injury results to Win.
throp College it will result with the
full knowledge of those in authority
and by their deliberate action, and
they will be responsible. We have
worked for thirty-fve years for the
upbuilding of Winthrop CoIleg. and
for the education of the women of the
State. Our board of trustees have
given to the Legislature full detailed
and ltemlZed statements of the needs
OF the college, with the organization
and expenses reduced to a minimum,
and we can do no more. l am here
= attending National Educational AS
sociation and lcannot go to Columbia
before the legislature adjourns. Win
throp's life and usefulness are now in
the hands of the General Assembly.
Inc College belongs to the State. and
: Npot to the resident and faculty or
! <->ta board. oI trustees, and the State
IN do so. If it wishes to curtail the
shes to cut down and cripple it, it
fNcan do so. If it wishes to curtal the
usefulness to the women, the schools
and the homes of South Carolina. it
can do so. 1t would be a disaster to
the State, however, if Winthrop
should be crippled There was never
- time when there was a greater need
pr teachers, and Winthrop is prepar-
pg the main supply of trained teach
IS f2ctbe State. 1t would be a cal
amity tP the State if Winthrop's abil-
ity to serve the State were seriously
reduced at this time, as now seems
likely will be the case unless the
House appropriation is amended by
the Senate in the particulars mention
4 toned We are asking for only
enough money to run the College eff
ficiently as now organized. We do
not ask for new buildings or new
work.
4 cannot think anyone wants to
cripple Winthrop College, the one in
stitution established and maintained
by the State for the education of the
women of the State, or will do so
! knowingly. The institution. / am
y sure, has warm place in the hearts
of the people. My object in this tele-
4 gram is to make last presentation Of
- the facts in the case
The Legislature failed to give the
relief asked for While requiring all
college revenues to be turned into the
rvState treasury, it failed to provide
the money required to pay janitors
and laborers now employed at re-
duced wages; it failed by $1,000 to