Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-04-13
THURSDAY, APRIL l3, 1922.

board of trustees of the Univer-
sity of South Carolina for elect
ing w. ID. Melton of Columbia,
lone OF the best known and ablest
lawyers in South Carolina,' to
the presidency of that institution.
The presumption is that the board
of trustees knew it's business but
nowhere in the rather fulsome
news article in praise of MIR. Mel
ton III The State Of Tuesday do
we find anything to lead to the
belief that he is peculiarly equip
ped for the duties of the head of
the institution. He is Il successful
lawyer, we are told, but ii can
hardly be contendcd that because
a man has practiccd law success
fully that he possesses the tact,
executive ability, aggrcSsivcneSs
and reSourccfulneSS TO manage Il
university in which there are sew
eral hundred students and which
should be representative of the
best in the life of the State. There
is deal of difference between
the two. Predecessors of Mr.. Mel
ton have made Il bust of the Job
that many of the best friends of
the university grant. some giving
as the reason therefor that the
Legislature has not appropriated
enough money to run the mStitu-
tiOn as il should be run. while
others attribute it's shortcomings
to the personnel of the teaching
corps, some of whom, it is claimed.
are Inefficient but manage in one
way and another TO keep their
names OH the payroll of the in
stitution. Still another group of
friends of the university say thai
1t never will attain the stature OF
real university so long as it is
controlled III the main by group
OF Columbia men who cOnstrue
suggestions coming from outside
that city AS to the management
and policy of the institution as so
mach impudence, However dis
tasteful ii may be to real friends
of the university who live in Co
lumbia to be told the fact, it is
fact they should know neverthe-
less that there is widespread be-
hef throughout the State that the
university is by and large Co.
lumbia institution, although it ls,
of course, supported by State
funds. The sooner these friends of
the university give this matter
the attention its Importance de-
serves. the better it will be for the
institution. The Times does not
undertake to say, it is not under
taking to create the impression,
that there is ground for the be-
lief that the university is work
ing primary for the interests of
the city of Columbia, but it does
say that many citizens of the
State are OF that opinion. The
handicap of lack of experience in
managing an important educa-
tional institution along with
the disadvantage of not being in
close touch with college life some
Will say was overcome in the case
OF Mr.. Melton by the fact that he
is citizen of Columbia and the
university is located in Columbia.
IL Governor Parker of Louisi-
ana does not institute a damage
suit against Grit" a weekly pa
per published at Williamsport,
"a, 1t probably will be because
he does not consider the game
worth the candle. In it's issue of
April 2 Grit" offended griev-
ously against Governor Parker
by asserting that he was one of
three American governors under
criminal indictment and by plac-
ing him i'll class with Small of
Illinois and Robertson of Okla
homa, who apparently must soon
er or later defend themselves
against charges of illegal trans
actions in connection with finan-
cial affairs, the former accused of
apprOpriating to his own uses a
large sum belonging to the people
and the latter with accepting a
bribe to influence his action in an
official matter. Men learned in tho