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MINUS MAKES REJOINDER Ex-Commandant of Clemson Discus ses Thornhill Case-Refers to the Interview with Dr. Mell. Clemson College, April 22.-Capt. J. C. Minue, U. S. A., retired, form er commandant at Clemson, makes the following signed statement in re ply to Dr. Mell 's interview in the News and Courier, of April 21, under date line of Anderson, S. C.: The following is attributed to Dr. Mell as the facts in the Thornhill case: "When he (referring to Thorn hill) went home at Christmas, 'he was taken ill and did -not return to college on the day when work was to be re sumed, but came in several days lat er. According to the by-laws govern ing the college, the president -has jur isdiction in cases of this kind, and when Thornhill returned he present ed a physician's certificate, which is in accordane -with the rules, Presi dent Mell excused the cadet on 'his delay, and allowed him to enter col lege to resume his studies. "It now dvelops, so says Dr. Mell,, that Thornhill had presented the cer tificate first to Capt. Minus, who had refused to accept it. Dr. Mall did not know that the matter had come up before Capt. Minus, for there was no nqtation in the certificate, and if thire #had been one made, it was not a matter in his jurisdiction. Only the president has authority to aet in such cases.'" Here is Capt. Minus' statement: "Cadet Thornhill went home for the Christmas holidays, December 22, 1908, to January 2, 1909. He return ed to college forty-two hours late, and submitted an explanation to the effect that he was detained for dental work, and supported his statement by the following certificate: "Charleston, S. C., January 2, 1909.-T.his is to certify that Mr. E. J. Thornhill has been detained by me to have his teeth treated. (Signed 'R. McI. Wilbur, D. D. S.' "I returned the explanation to the cadet on the grounds that the cadet was away from College from Decem ber 22, 1908, to January 2, 1909, by authority, and no reason was given why the dental work was not done during the ten or eleven days of lei sure. My endorsement, returning the explanation, was to the effect that the explanation was unsatisfactory, in which event, if .the cadet had more to offer in explaining his offence, he had the opportunity. It was during the Stime that the paper 'was in the hands of the cadet that it was taken to Dr. Mell. "I quote Paragraph 204, Regua tions for t:he Government of the Ca dets of Clemson Agricultural College: F" 'Every cadet who over-stays his leave of absence must produce satis faetory testimony of his having been prevented from returning by sickness or some other unavoidable cause.' " Certainly up to this point the testimony was not satisfactory. " Taking up Dr. Mell 's statement by piecemeal, 'when he (referring to Thornhill) went home Christmas he was taken ill.' This is the first claim made t.hat Thornhill was ill. Con tinuing, I quote from Dr. Mell 's statement: 'According to the by-laws governing the College, the president asserts that he has jurisdiction in. such cases.' Here is the exact quo tation from .the by-laws: 'In all mat 'ters of discipline and control of the cadet corps, except in cases involving suspension or expulsion,' the comman dant shall be empowered to aet, and the board will expect him 'to enforce good order and good behavior, and exercise all the power necessary to that end. He shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem best, subject to the supervision and para mount control of the president.' "Further along in the president's statement this occurs: 'Only the pres ident has authority to act in such! cases.' A reference to the records of the commandant's office will show at least fifty cases of cadets over-stay ing leave since .the beginning of my administration in 1907, and I chal kunge the president to show one case; in which he has ever exercised the au authority that he asserts is his alone. Every case of over-staying leave, ex cept the Thornhill case and the Brown case. has been handled by me -with out one word or co:'inem from the president indicatingx acGon: in the cases. His invariable valeI. prior to january. 1909. has been to send to the commnandant"'s office surgeon 's certificates, and so on, and not a sin gle one shows a word by way of en-: dorsemenrt prior to the above cited cases. The validity of the excuse has heretofore been left entirely to the commandant. Here is the endorse ment on the Thornhill certificate: 'President 's office, January S. 1909.! Respectfully referred to the comman dam:. Cadet will be excused on this crtiP(ete. (Signed) P. HI. Mell, President' "Now summing up. Dr. Mell states ihv the cadet was ill. read the eer tif+at- that the president and the president alone, has authority to handle such cases; read the quotation from the by-laws and consider the fact that for a year and a half pre vious there was never a suggestion that the handling of surgeon's certifi cates in the ease of cadets over-stay ing leave is a special and exclusive function of the president. The com mandant and the commandant alone has always handled these certificates; that the grounds for the president's removal of the offence against the cadet are without warrant. "If the regulations and the by-laws governing this institution mean any thing, the president, by this action, in a ruthless, uncalled for and unau thorized manner, invaded the juris diction of the commandant, specifi cally set aside as his, by the board of trustees in the by-laws. "Along this ine I quote from a let ter of protest in the Brown case, which is of the same flagrant and in vading nature as the Thornhill case; 'one of the great evils and one of the most unbusinesslike elements ,connect ed with the administration of this College from a disciplinary stand point is the over-staying by the ea dets of the stipulated and scheduled holidays granted by the authorities, and the matter will never be remedied by the acceptance of any such excuse as is set forth herein. As president, you virtually discredit the order of my office, which, as I have stated, is based upon written instructions from you. I write this letter for the purpose of making my protest a matter of record.' The date of the above let ter is January 4, 1909. The Thornhill endorsement is of date January 8, 1909. The president was under prom ise to the board of trustees to stay out of the commandant's jurisdiction, made December 9, 1908. ''J. C. Minus, ''Capt. U. S. Army, Retired." THE TROUBLE AT CLEMSON. "The College is Run by an Astute Politician, on the Lines of Politi cal Machine." To -the Editor of The News and Courier: Your editorial of the 20th instant, relative to conditions at Clemson College, 'has been read with much interest as usual. The position 'taken that the ills of Clemson are due to the preponder ance on the board of the Clemson will trustees is doubtless in large measure correct. Certainly there can be no adequate defenee of a scheme under which the very large sums ap propriatd by the State in support of the College are placed under the con trol of the representatives of Mr. Clemson. Nevertheless, it does not necessarily follow that for this reason the Col lege must be mismanaged. This is an atual, but not necessary result. The truth seems to be that Clem son, like the dispensary system, is one of Mr. Tillman 's politeal schemes,f and as he used the latter for 'his po itial advancement, so he does not hesitate to bend the former to his own ends. I have been told by one who atended a meeting of the board 'that Mr. Tillman was the whole thing and the other members were figure-heads. It is evident that the Senator con siders it importa?it to remain on the hoard, else he would not continue to stultify himself by remaining a trus tee, in flagrant violation of the Con stitution of the Sta-te, in the making of which he took so prominent a part. The College, in other words, is run by an astute politician, on the lines of a political machine, and as long as these conditions exist, we shall not have a college of which the State ean feel very proud. As to present conditions, and the controversy between Capt. Minus and President Melil, I have no doubt that the parent of every student at Clem son breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced that Capt. Minus had resigned. You will recall that under the D'ra c-ouian Code. all offenses were punish - ed with1 death; the lesser, because they deserved it. the greater because nothing more severe could be devised. Evidently some such idea controlled Capt. MIinus in dealing with the so aled "rebellion'' of April last, when he insisted .upon the expulsion or disnssal of three hundred and i:-e 'tudents. for it is a very patent absurdity to say that among these three hundred and five boys ranging in, lasses and ages from freshmen of sixteen years to .juniors of twenty to twenty-two or t'hree years of age,I there were absolutely no v-arying de grees of culpability. This is thc only case on record. I believe, where all wh engaged in mutiny, rebellion, rio't, affray or other disturbance, whether in schoool, college, the army, on shipboard or anywhere else, (where the number so engaged was cn;f siderable.) were theld equally guil :md were all given the severest unishnt known to the law. It will be recalled also that tihe .,, -in,-rao hng tihe taltsmon which his laws were inscribed so high that they cou!d not be read, thus making their violation the more prob able. Capt. Minus published an order, it appears, that a certain regulation would be enforced, which regulation prescribed expulsion or dismissal for leaving the College grounds between "taps'' and "reveille," i. e., in the night. The logical, natural and neces sary conclusion from this would, of course, be that whatever the punish ment for leaving the grounds during the day, it certainly would not be ex pulsion or dismissal; but that is just what Capt. Minus meant it should be, and that is what he insisted on. And herein is revealed another Draconian twist to the Captain's mind. Bat in his "statement" Capt. Minus tells us that President Mell is weak, and to those parents whose sons have lost their last and only opportunity to get an education, doubtless the whole board which permitted the ac tion of last spring appeared excess ively weak, and President Mell's "weakness'' in overriding Capt. Minus in the Thornhill ease, as re ported by your correspondent, will be approved by all. The trouble with Capt. Minus seems to be revealed in the description given of him by Mr. Hoyt last spring, viz, he is "a soldier," and "nothing but a soldier." Now something other and more than a mere soldier is needed in and required of a commandant of cadets and a professor in a college. Such a one must have a heart as well as a head. In -all dealing with the re spectable sons of respectable parents during the formative period of their lives and characters, he should be not only, and merely, a ian of high char acter and firmness, but also of dis cretion, discernment, of careful and discriminating temperament and affa bility of disposition and manners. Capt. Minus may be, and doubtless is, a m.an of high character, and firmness and a good soldier, but these other necessary qualities, or some of them, he seems to lack. And so I say, no doubt the parents of the Clemson students breathed a sigh of relief when they learned of Capt. Minus' resignation and it is a pity he did not let it go at that. Y. The Modern Mary. Mary had a little lamb; it's fleece was white as snow. Would Mary ever sell the lamb? Why, what a question! No! She kept the lamb in luxury for many, many years, and every now and then she'd go and clip it with her shears, then sell the fleece and take the cash and put it in the bank until she had a 1ortune .of the very top most rank. While Mary ,was a wise young girl, er fathsr had a pull, and throtigh !his .labbying he kept the tar iff up on wool.-Chicag Evening Post. TO DRAW JURY. Notice is hereby given that, we, the undersigned, Ju-ry Commissioners for Newberry County, S. C., will on the 23rd. inst., at 9 o'clock a. in., in the office of the Clerk of Court, openly and publicly draw the names of thirty-six men, who shall serve as Petit Jarors at the Court of Common Pleas which will convene at Newber ry, S. C., May 10th, 1909. JNO. L. EPPS, EjUG. S. WE~RTS, JNO. C. GOGGANS, Jury Coin. for Newheery Co., S. C. April 12th, 1909. 4-13- '09.-td. 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