The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-03-02
To The Friends of Public Education.


state legislature should support her.
"The County Record" stated last
week that, since the founding of Win
throp college 81 years ago the state
legislature had appropriated S7,OOO,-
600 (seven million) for permanent
improvements. This was typo
graphical error. The correct amount
is about 100000 (seven hundred
thousan6. Compare this amount
with what other states give their
women's institutions and you will see
that the amount given by South Caro-
lima for the education of her women
l., pitifully small! For instance,
North Carolina in 1921 appropriated
fer its state college for women at
Greensboro SS75,OOO for permanent
improvements and 100000 for main
tenance. Yet this institution is not
so large as Winthrop.
Il is estimated that Winthrop COL
lege is furnishing at least 80 per
cent of the trained teachers serving
in the schools of South Carolina.
For the past four years the shortage
Of teachers in the United States has
run into the hundreds of thousands.
Of this shortage South Carolina has
had her full share, and many of our
schools have had to be closed because
there were not enough trained teach
ers to supply the demand. Just that
MANY more children are being denied
the chance of an education. South
Carolina is already at the bottom
among the states of the union in
the scale of illiteracy.
Added to this already alarming
situation, is the danger that, by the
refusal of our state legislature to
give Winthrop adequate support, this
magnificent institution may have to
shut down, and may have to send
home it's more than one thousand
students, practically all of whom
would 90 forth to swell the teaching
forces of our state, if given the chance
to complete their education.
Taxpayers of Williamsburg county,
when you elected certain gentlemen
to represent US in the general assem-
bly,, when you sent them to Columbia
with instructions to economize and to
reduce taxes as much as possible, you
certainly did not mean that they were
tr economic at the expense OF such
a worthwhile institution as Winthrop
college! Do you know that, although
she enrolls as many students as all
three Of the mems institutions, yet
she is not asking for an equal appro-
priatior, nor yet the same per capita
appropriation? According to the re-
port Of the committee on economy
and consolidation, Winthrop college
compared with other state institu-
tions is rendering the largest divi-
dends on the smallest investment
made by South Carolina, and there
fore she should in justice be granted
her requests.
Why should Winthrop be compell-
ec to turn into the states treasury
her tuition fees while Clemson, the
Citadel and the University may keep
their tuition fees and make use Of the
money?
Why should Winthrop be forced to
pay the lowest salaries to her teach
ers-not only lower than those paid
to the teachers at Clemson, the Cita-
del, and the University, but the low
est in forty-two similar institutions
III twenty different states, scattered
from the Pacific to the Atlantic?
Why this injustice to the one state
college for women?
Yet in spite of inadequate support,
in spite of these handicaps Winthrop
is an institution, which in thirty-four
w ars has achieved such wonderful re-
Its that it is known far and wide;
:: is visited by distinguished educators
from every section of our country,
who come to see the plant, to study
the methods that prevail there, and
10 draw inspiration from that marvel
Gus man, DR.. D. B. Johnson.
Upon presentation of their A. B.
degrees, Winthrop's graduates are
certified to teach in New York or Cal
ifornia, in Florida or North Dekota.
Winthrop's A. B. degree is recogniz-
ed by every big university in the
United States-Chicago, Cornell,
Johns l opkins, etc.
Do " not think that this is an
institut; n worth supporting? Then
see to i that she is properly support
ed. See to it that the 1922 session
of the South Carolina legislature does
rot adjourn until it has made suff-