The news in this publica
tion is released for the press on
the date indicated below.
the university of north CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
MARCH 17, 1915
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. L NO. 17
Editorial Hoards K. Branson, .1. del*. Ij. U. Wilson, Z. V. Judd, S 1\. Winters, I.,. .A. WilUanis.
Kntt-red as sccond-clas.^ mattei- Ni.vemljfi- 14, 1IH, at the poHtortioe at Cliapel Hill, N. C., iimlcr tlie act ot Animat 24. ima.
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CAROLINA CLUB NOTES
Who Said Hard Times?
The iithcr day h sinall cduiiti'y l)aiii^ in
OIK'ot our leadiiiti rottciii nmiitics dc-
■elanyi a 10 per ('(‘iit cash (1ivi(ieii(i.
Since 1907, this hank has ilcchircd casii
.ariii stuck liviilciiils anioimtinfr Id 315 pci-
ocm.
W'hd said hard liiiics? .\'ot this hank
anyway. Who sail cioiil per cent? Xof
ihis hank surely.
•\. C., and fiuaranteed t)y'the jiioducei',
.1. \\’. Jlardee. Tlie coiitainei'was inaik-
ed. Self-l.ockins Caitoii (Vi.. 46.S Iv
Illinois'Sl., Chicago.
The hiiyei- in Kaleitrh paid 24 t’Cnls a
dozen for lliesecKus. ,\t a little colinlry
store, iin our nay home, we picked \ip 4
dozMi eggs at 25 cents a dozen The pro-
ihirer u'ot 20 cents in lrale.
per
The Citizen-Banker
Tlie Citizens Hank of Wai'renton is dis-
trihuting monthly folik'rs to the fai nier,->
of \\'arrcii on diversilication, i>roper crop
rotations, nia.xiniiini yickls, iner('used soil
fcrtiHty, larger farm reventu's, permanent
farm prosjierity and the like, says The
Record.
If the farmers of Wam'ii heed this cn|ii-
lal counsel and rai.se enough hread and
meat, grain and hay for home consuui]i-
tion yeai' liy year it will mean pernianpnt,
j\ot merely si'u.sonal, ()rosp‘rity. It will
alw mean more and .safer husines.^ ffir the
.men-’hants and banki*rs
Cents and Per Cents
I u I .ne ca.s(‘, the produi'cr got 25
ci'iil more atid the hnyer jiaid 4 jier cent |
le.ss; in I lie other, the [irodncer got 16 2-3 I
[ler ceni less and the huyei- paid 4 1-6 per!
cent more. Seel ;
W hen lai'liicis anil ihe consumers of
fai'Uier’s products licKin to reckon in pei-i
cents as hnsiness people dii. ihey will i
hnth |nil Ihrnwing jiennies awav. I'en-
ni(‘s are |>er ceius as certainly as pounds
and shillinu's.
•scl-
,Mr.
The Spider-Banker
Hei'e is tlu- advertiseuK'nt of another
kind of hanker in Nortli Carolina: or a|i-
|iarenlly another kind:
"In the olden times the Ravens f(>d
'Klijah—this is gospel.
“Ill the.se times the only Bird thal i-aii
\)e i-eliel upon to feel you in your old
age is Tlie Kagle on the ..Vnn'rican Hol
lar—thi.s is also (Tospel."
The moral is. Save your dollars. The
point is, Dejxisit them in our hank.
Here is a frank religious crwd : Wor
ship the Ciolden Calf: how the knee to
Rimnuin; have faith in Mammon—
.And above all: Walk into our parlor,
ll is the spider’s spiel foi- spnil.
Our First Belg-ian Colony
'I'welve f!elgi;in f:irmers have heen
lleil al irelei;:;iu Heudei'county by
llngh .McRae of the Carolina Tnicking
and 1 H'velopment Co. in Wilminyton. |
They fonud neat cottages and small |
fai-ms limeil and fertilized, plowed and i
' I
harn.iwed all ready for tlu‘u] upon ar
rival.
Tile lack of farm labor in the South ex
plains our two hundreil million wikter-
ne.ss acn's; nur twenty two million in
North Car'olina, and the million six hun
dred thousand acres, or nine-tenths of
the land, in ,\ew Hanover, l’»'nd(M‘. Bla
den anl Brunswick counties.
Names Worth Mentioning j
Forty-fonr Corn Club boys in Walanga :
raised 2,445 biiKliels of corn last year, I
They captnreil onc^ of the three scholar- |
ship prizi's, and two of the r+istrict cash !
prizes, says the Lenoir 1'opic. !
Tlipse promising yonn^ farmers are
Clyde .May, Le.ster Flowers, and Hamil
ton SteeU'.
Exploring Orange County
\Ve ai-(‘ indeed fortimale in having the
Stat*' and Federal experts explore Ihe re-
sourci.'S of _)range county.
W(> look upon these surveys of our
educational interesis, activities, resoiirceii,
and deficiencies as lieing one of the best
thingsr handed to the county in many
years,
kiusi -M.oiiday the County Hoard of
Kilucation and the Board of Couiily ('imi-
inissioners unanimously a]i]ir(ivi‘i the
idea of a whole-tini(>conntv health otHcer
CPIMJINE LEADERSHIP
ill Xdi'tii ^Carolina th(‘y liavo
a Stalf I iiiwrsity "whicli be-
lievt' it is iloin^ its duty fo the coiiiiiKni'
Meailli iiu‘i'(‘ly by f‘ln*atin^tlie cho.stMi
tew who an* trnTunate eiioii^jh tu en-
tt*i' its hails. 1'!h‘ iiniNcrsity has said
ifial il' itsrnin^^ dc(‘s not iiieaTi a
Icaiiini! 1(1 the loil(-rs in the mills and
t'aclorlcs. in the slutps and on the
larni. with a Icin^irt^: to serve tlieni.
it dtK's no! deser\c support V>y the
taxpayers. So you find rniuiiiiu'
tliroua;h its Htteraiices a continual eiir-
reni ol inspiration lo th(* fn'opU* of its
slate, ft is not alraid to swin^ a sti(*k
al i-ltild laboi'. to chronicle the nuni-
her of illiterates within th(> borders of
the state.
P>ut it is easy enough lo scold in
stead oi "H'eringconstrnctn e criticism.
Ihe uni\'e]’sity iloi's not rri' this way.
I'oi it has piu into practice its ideals,
ranging Irom llome-County study
coursf's If) Community Service \\'(“ek"
which was takc'ii n)> by Ihe state from
a suj„'gestion by Picsident Graham.
I >n another pay;e read the story of this
great idea to enlist a ^vhole comtnon-
vvealth in the movement for- the com
mon good. "Know Ihyself" applies
to commiHiities ei|ually as well as Id
individuals.
ihe iirst step |f)\\ards lietlei' things
is to find out exaiH conflitions. It is
a thrilling thought thal in so many
coinmnnities thejiefiple forewent their
daily tasks and gath(‘r(‘d Vn make plans
for betlei'inent.
W by shonldn I every county in
1‘very stale have a '‘{'ommunity Ser
vice Week." if not by state deciee,
then by local initiative?
—The Hanker-I''arnier
IJNTVEKSrTY SCHOOL OF EDUCATFON
LETTER SERIES NO. 19
A Good Idea
'I'he County .'-^uper\isor in .lolmslon
(Viunty. Miss Klizabeih Iselly.^ brings
forward an idea loi' cnunly leachers which
is l(‘cid(Hlly worth \\liil(>. It is the idea
of ;rou|i Meetings for liural, Teactu'rs.
Method of Organization
The uinety-Iwo rural schools .-ire maile
into ele\'en groiijis. 1'hese groups will
each woi-k as a nnil and all, together
with the len lo\\\i scliools. v'ill iriaki' U[>
the county grouji.
I'he leachers ol each group as organ
ized will meet on Saturday at snne -on-
venienl place within lheii groii]i territory.
These groups in tliis way
theii proi>lenis. and at the same rime
come to kno^^ more of ea'h other, and
by concentration anrl inilividual work do
practical thini's thal tli(>y have nol done
before,
A Sample Program
J. Brief opening exercise by I’resideni
ol Ci'oup. Roll call by .'^ecn'lary.
II. Round-table confeience on "The
Teacliing of (ieography in the Klementa-
ry Schools."
( In prejiaration for this let each leach-
ei' make a carehil study of cha]iters l-\’I
in the text. This should enable the teach
er to (Miter into a live and intelligent
discussion based on subject matter in
cha]iterV]I. 1^4 each teachtM- tell from
actual experience some way in which she
has related Oc'ography lo other subjects
in school and to the life interest.s and
in th(' home and on
ii(>eds of her )iu|>ils
the fanri. I
III. \\ hat sp(*citic ('llorts am 1 putting
lr»rth lo makeschoil niore intM‘(\stiug
to my pupils'.'
( rttch meiidier of ihe (I'roup is exp'cti'd
lo answe]- ihis (|ne,«,tion by realing from
a previously pi'epared paper, uivingmere
lacts. 'H' naming "eli'orts" t(*nding to
ward answei'ing this ((Uestion. ,\ genera!
discu.ssion would nalnrally follow tlie
reading of (>ach pjiper. i
1\. -\re the results of Sjielling a.s
taught in my ,seho(,l salisfadoj-y?
^ ( Discuss purpose, «ays and na'ans of
j teaching: amount and manner of a.ssign-
" ill 'vork out j and results as shown by
revi(nvs and liy pupil's ability (o use
words in e\ery-day urillen anil oral
work. )
\ . 1 )iscu.s.sion ol plans lor (Jroup llay
preliminary lo (^aintv Vnuniencement
and Field hay.
1. Agreement on detinite plans in
rc'gard lo literary, mii.sical, athletic, and
all other ex enis connwtcd with the day,
2. .■Vrrangements for tentative pro
gram for (.;roii|> Day.
\l, Open period for anything d(\sired
by spi'cia 1 (froup.
-\ joint meeling of al lea.sl half an hour
of Ihe leachers and health olticers of each
gi'ouji mi};lit lie held al this same time
and place, after which the health olJicei-s
niifihl meel in another room and discu.s:^
with each other the thiu.us eai'h is (ioing
and the things that ue»'d to be done in
each communitv.
where the .school expenditure is low the things from co\ci-to ccner. Il con.siders
police expense is high. In other words, the tow nshiii leachers' meetings, county
as the money spent for schools increases commencemeni, rouiid-tahle conferences,
the nece.ssary exjiense for |>ublic proiec- news from the different ,~'liools, health
tion decreases. work, club work, agriciilnuv, good roads,
.According to the latest available com- the three-ii'ach(*r school amlthemoon-
, |iarativ('figures from the office of tlu' I', ligiil .school moveineiu .
Ihe members otlhe .Moonlight scliool»| (Viiumissioner of Kdiication. North
SCHOOL NEWS
A Worthy Attitude
Such work as this must \-italize
in the Old Mill School, Kilo-ecombe coiin- I Carolina spends less per capita of popnln- work of every teacher iii the comitv
ty. as announcwl iii the Universitv Xews | P''W'f education than any other •:
the
Slaughtering the Innocents
Nearly one-lifth of all the death.s in the
registration area in 1913 were of babes
le.ss ilmii'a year olil.
.\iul more than a fourth ■ wi're of chil
dren less llian live years old.
Kina Ignorance slaughters more chil
dren in many a community every year
than ever Kinir Herol did in lietldeliem.
Wha't will the Health Survey of Orange
We .should all lend a hand, attend the | , entertainment the I
j meetings, and support tlu^ movement in | proceeds of which were to go to the teach- ! ^"'■‘-sight.
I every way jK..s,sible. —W. B. Thomp.son, ; ^,rs in the school. From the newspaper ' ================
I Kdit(U' Chaiiel Hill .\ews. i ;„.connts. it was a most decided success, i Power to Them
= ; From'far and near the folks c-ame and i The County School Bulletin .seems to
i About Their Father’s Business ; enjoyed the play representing an old i have found a most useful place in our
I The ministerial a.ssociation has just Ii educ'ational system. The Cniversity
I tak(‘ij a religions census of (Taslonia,. In’ The proceeds amounleit to nearly $50. I Letter has just received a copy
Kinston and Mooresville, the ministerial ' " hich the teachers did nol acceiU for I^’'l'*^'''’if'"'l-cnt I’ittman
associations arc' [ireparing to do so,
Tiiej are concerned ahout their Father's j
business. And this is a kind of business i
that has'beiMi overkioked long enough hv i
our church pe.ople everywlnM-e. It is ihe!
business man’s yearly biisine.ss of slock-
takine.
themselves but asked that wilh this sum
|)h' lerm of the Old yLill School lie in
creased. More than this, the Mooniitiht
school will continue as long as the teach
ers ai(> in llK'comniiinity. These leachers
iare Mi.ss Nina Corbett and Miss :\Iary
! Bryan. The altitude taken by them
coinitv disclose',’ The lie,st index of anv
‘ ' T •
civilization is the death rate of hel p le.ss ' It is tune we were all tindiiii;nut in , ... ,
i 1 , , I ol the pupils 111 the Mooiihirht schoo
i some inisnie.ss-Like way where our clinrch-' '
j es stand and which way Ihey are mciving,
I What counties of North Carolnia have
county-«iiie ministerial associalinns'.'
.\nd wiiat are they doing'.' \Vhat miirht
ihey be doing'.'
.'•hildren.
Equipped for Efficieucy |
The Lhiiversity of Wisconsin is asking |
the legislalure now in session tor Si5,150,- !
979.32 to (^ove-i' university )>urpo1es dur- j
! towards the pi-oceeds explains the attitude
It
is a worthy attitude on the [lart of both
teachers and puiiils.
ing the next twn years.
During Ihe last twn years the I'niver-
sity of Wi.scoii.sin had from the stat-
S4.347,774.41
If North Carolina could or Would give
her Hniversity ('ven a tenth of such sums
as the.se, l-’re.sident (jraham’s visions of
state-widi' service mlsrht he realized in
lartre measure.
We Need More of Them
,\Ir. .hihn Wilhoii of (Chatham county
I,' a one-horse farmer of tjii- right .sort.
He has beef cattle to sell, some 1913 corn
still left in his crib, 55 gallons of syrup,
75 bushels of potatoes. 25 bushels of
peas, ISO bushels of oats, plenty of vege
tables, chickens, hot;s and cows, and
three bale,s of cotton lying by for belter
price.s, .says the-Sandhill Citizen.
This type of live-at-home farmer is
fairly rare in any Southern state; but
there ar‘ more of his sort in North ('aro-
lina, far iiMire, than in any other state of
the cotton Ix^lt, Oklahoma |ierha|is ,ex-
cepteii, -May his tribe increase.
What Orange Needs
.\s -^Ir. R. I’. lilackwood sees U:
Better roads, better .schools, more farm
teleiihones, better preparatioii of land
and better culture of crops, more and ,
better cattle and hogs, more home-bred j
hor.se and mule colts, more hay and for-i
age. and bigger grain crops. !
.\bove all things, a plan to educate [
Country-bred boys and girls that will
send them back to tiu' country when they
ai'(>_educated.
\\4ial ai'(‘ your ideas about our ii(>eds
in (Iraiifre':'
Gaining in Power
The w ar on illiterat^y is gaining in pow
er and m(+H*entiim exery day. The
leachers and committee of Buncombe
County have allied themsehes with the
forces already in the lield for the struggle
by pk'dging ihem.selves to work for the
ot I'^lgecombe county. It is excellent in
purpo.se, material and form.
One of the greatest values of such bul
letins will rest in the regularity with
which tl‘u>y ajipear. ^The teaclau’s must
come to expect them at sona* detinite
tiiiK'—and they must not bi'disappointed.
The material for the pajiers must be
live. Il must he local and aimed to meet
local needs. It must he cast into short
I ]iaragraphs. The busy teacher will not
I take the time lo rt'iid loiij; dissertations.
, Thi,~ biillelin idea is a good one. We
I hope more countie.s will ado])t il
Definite Work
Snperintendeiit Paul .I. Kiker of ,\uson
county believes in giving his teachers
very specific informatioii about the county
school work. He.sends a letter to each
one carefully outliiiin,; the plans for the
County Couuueiicemc'iil, stilting exactly
th(* time and ]ilace ol the lownshi)i teach
ers mei,'tings, and details the nece.ssary
jioints to be looked lor in th(‘ obser\'atiou
of le.ssons taught by other teach(>rs
By the nay. this,is a very v aluable part
of the township meetings. The mornings
are sjicnt visiting th(‘ rooms at work in
the scho>ls where the leachers meet. l'lu‘
alternoons are sjieni discussing Ihe work
seen and other nece.s.sary matters. Such
W(irk is bound to help every teacher who
loyally |iarlicipates.
School Committeemen
In lh(' .North Carolina Public School
system, school committeemen occu])y a
strategic |iosition, making as they do ihej 250 communitie.-
' 1000 STUDENTS TO DEBATE
The biggest’series of ilehates in the his-
I lory of .Nfirth Carolina will .soon take
I place. March 26th is the date .set for the
'State-wide triaiigulai contest of the Hi^di
[.'School Debating riiini,
-\1 ihis time 1,000 boys and girls in
ll the Stale w ill discuss
connecting link between the County Board
e.stablishnieni of Moonlight schools in the i of Education and Ihe County Siiperint(Mid-
eiil on the one hand and the peo}>le on
the other. Tlie rural school and the
county.
,\t a recent . meeting, the teachers of
h’owan county adopted a resolution to
wage an immediate yiid aggre.ssive war
fare on the 543 white illiterates of the
county,
111 .lohnstoii county I In-school officers
are using not onlv Ihe Moonlight .school
efficiency therein are in a large measjiire
determined by the ideals and enthnsia.sms
of the school committ»emen.
Enlisting Support
Time and effort are therefore well sfient
in interestiiru' the school commiiteenK-n.
the advisability oi our (TOvernineid/.s
adopting a policy of ship subsidies. They
will .speak in 90 countie.s, lo auilieiices
numbering 50.000 people.
The winners in the triangular contestH
will compete in a final contesi for the
.\ycock -Memorial Cup at the ruiversity
on ,\pril 9th.
One Dozen Fresh Eggs
We captnred in a hotel re.stalirant in
.Kaleigh some time ago, a cheap paste
board container ustKl for moving country
eggs direct from producer to consumer.
The cover read : One dozen fre-sh eggs,'
sold by the Fanners (Inion Co., Entield,
Up and Down in Orange
During the last census period the in
i'rea.ses in live stock in Orange were as
follows, says .Mr. .1. .M. .lohnstou, of the
Oraiigv County Club at the rnixersity:
Cattle increase, 4.6 per cent ; iiinles, 9
per cent: horses. 17 percent; milk cows,
23 percent; and poultry, 30 per cent.
On the other hand our losses are .serious
during this jieriod :
Horse colts decrease, 19 jier cent: mule
colts, 40 per (vnt; hogs, 22 per cent; and
sheep, 67 percent.
In ten years our sheep decreased from
2.434 Ki 900. Here is loss amounting to
some ij)700 a year in sheep alone, .V
$7,000 loss of projjerty in ten years is
worth investigating.
but the Community Life Clubs as well to | ac.piainting them with ihe extent and
carrv the caiii|iaign into tlu- eneniv’s ter- i character ol the \arious scIkioI |iroblems,
ritorv. The one and only Holy War, the I i'l enli,sling their sympathy an.l co
war a,uainst illiteracs, is gaiiiiny in power. | operation in whau.'ver undertaking may
: be determined upon by the county auihor-
! I ties.
The County Conference
To this end County (lommittee Confer-
, enciw have been held in many counties of
I the .State to which all coinmitti'eineii are
j invited and at which problems of a prac-
I tical and local nature are disciissi^l.
Hind-Sight, Not Fore-Sight
Through the etl'orts of Kev. Sidney
Love, Secretary of the N. C. Prisoners’
.Md Society, (>very county and city jail in
Noi’th Carolina will receive a large Bible.
Fresumably one purpose in view is to en
courage* the pri.soners therein to lead a
better life through learning the way by i
reading this ma.ster gniclT'. The motive ! 'Vitalized Supervision
is a worthy one anl Secretary Love is to The County Schools of North Carolina
be commended for his attention to this ■ are having (|Uantities of red blood trans
matter.
. It is a known fact, provable by reliable
statistics, that in those citie.s where the
expense for schools is high there the po
lice expenditure is low; in those cities
fu.sed into their systems. Superintendent
Matthews and his co-workers in Sampson
are helping the problem of visitation by
means of their County .School Record.
The January number is full of ^ood
CO-OPERATION IN CATAWBA
I'.xtension .series .No. 8 of the I'nivcr
sity of Norih Carolina deal.-: with Co-op-
erativi' Institutions among ihe farmers of
Catawba county. .Much has been done
for the welfare of^ Catawlia county by it.s
co-0)it‘rativc iiistiliitions, and lliei'xam-
ple is one thal can he followed by other
comnrunilies in the Stale.
.\ |iostal addressed Pi the Bureau of
I'^xtension w ill bring this bulletin to you.
A POPULAR BULLETIN
.\ big demand continues for Kxleii.sioii
Series Bulletin No, 2 of the T’ni\(>rsity of
North Carolina. This bulletin contains
Addre.sses on Kilucation for luse in De
claiming, K.ssay Writing, and Reading,
It is being used as the source of mater
ial for the declamation contests in many
of the approaching county commence
ments. A postal addressed to the Bureau
of Kxtensioii'.will |bring this Bulletin to
you,