The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-02-23
FRIENDS OF EDUCATION
Asked to Consider Condition at Win
throp College.

budg county who believe in the high
or education Of women.
There are 12O graduates of Win
throp teaching in the high schools
of this state, besides hundreds of
others teaching in the lower grades,
and rural schools. The Winthrop girl
is rendering effcient>service to home,
school, church and state.
Yet what is South Carolina doing
to support Winthrop college? TIE
one institution chartered for the high
er education Of women. In 1920 the
legislature appropriated so little that
tie trustees and President johnson
had to give their individual notes to
prevent the doors of the college clos
ing in November 1920.
How was the college treated In
1921? She was given almost $4,000
less than in 1920, and told that any
urexpended balance left rrom this
Inadequate appropriation might be
used to cancel the debt of honor in
Cured in the effort to prevent the
calamity of having Winthrop close
her doors and send her more than
ore thousand students home.
In comparison with what has been
done for the higher education Of mes,
the state has never been generous
with Winthrop college. The magnifi-
cent plant, comprising now some
twelve or fourteen huge brick build
ings and valued at more than ST.
100000 1.-TWO million) was estabE 'f
ed chiefly not by means of state aid,
but by large gifts from Northern
philanthropists. For the permanent
plant the state has appropriated dur
ing the So years OF the lire of the
college about S7,0O0,0O0. She has
been appropriating for men at the
University for more than hundred
wears; for men at the Citadel-with
some years of interruption-since
1912; and for men at Clemson since
1890. Three institutions for men
one for women. In the past three
years there has been appropriated
for one of these mems institutions
100000 for a new home, almost
$cOO, 900 more than the sum total ap-
propriated during the entire life Of
Winthrop for permanent improve
ments. The men were given none
too much. The Winthrop Daughters
of the state rejoice in the develop
ment of state institutions for their
brothers. But why the dlscrimina-
ton? Why appropriate more than
three times as much for men as for
women? Why refuse to appropriate
money for new teachers at Winthrop
where 1872 more students are enrolled
this year than last, and where prac-
tically as many students are enroll
ed as in all three Of our mems insu-
tutions, and Notwithstanding the re-
fusal made Winthrop, appropriate
several thousand dollars for new
teachers in mans institution?
The 1922 Legislature, now in ses-
sion, has acted most ungenerously OF
ali. The budget Of Winthrop had al
ready been cut to the bone. Yet the
budget commission cut out the re-
quest for $4,000 to continue the con-
struction of teachers home, and the
ways .and means committee further
reduced Winthrop $1,000. AT the
same time, they increased the ap-
preparation to the University $1,000,
to Clemson $4,000, the colored school
$4,000.
You, mothers and fathers Of Will
liamsburg county, who have daugh-
ters at Winthrop and younger daugh-
ters expecting to go to Winthrop, is
this fair, is it just? Do you want
ILLS WOuQSIlul uS1eouoh oioS u0"Aa
for lack of funds? Do you want
your daughters turned out Of school
because the men whom you have vot-
ed for and elected to the legislature
refuse to give it adequate support !?
Why is it, that when our legislators
wish to economize, they begin on the
ore state institution chartered for
women? Heed this statement, tax
payers, Winthrop turns into the state
treasury more money than all three
ot the mems colleges. She turned in
this year 100000. She is compelled
to do this, and yet the mems insti-
trtions are exempted. Why this in
justice? The thing that 1000 Win
tkrop Daughters do not understand
is the discrimination.
We would like reply from the