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the university of north CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Caroliaa
for Its Bureaii E.xtensioa.
MA.Y 17,1916
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. II, NO. 25
Editorial Bo-rd. B. C. Braaaon, J. (i. deR, Hamilton. U K. Wtlsoa, L. A. Williams, B. H. Thornton, U. M. M.Kit-
E iternfi Hs stfcond-claas matter November U. 1914, at the.postoffice at Chapel Hill, N.C.i under the act of August 24,1913.
NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES
TEACHER TRAINING
COURSES
priujary object of tlie I'liiversity
Huuiiiier Scln)ol has always been to otter
tlie teacliers ainl |jrospective teachers of
the State an opportunity to ejuip them
selves properly for the work of instruc
tion.
?Witli this end in view the Suiiiiuer
School oflera in the Department of Edu-
jcation this year the following courses;
Primary Methods, Reading for tiie Pri-
(inary Grades, (irammar School Methods,
■Child Study in the Grammar Grades,
Plays and Games, Story Telling, Play
grounds, General Administration, the
Teaching of English, the Teaching of
History, the Teaching of Arithmetic, the
Teaching of (ieography. High School
Administration, High School Methods,
Constructi^'e School Supervision, Elemen-
itary Educational Psychology, a Seminar
lOourse in Educational Psychology, and a
iSeminar Course in Administration.
Our leaders have made a great start.
And we have the faith to believe that
they will go on toward still greater
things.
TRAINING FOR CITY JOBS
The system of education useil for coun
try and town children alike is designed
to turn out preachers, lawyers and clerks,
etc. Is it any wonder then that country
children, when they get any education at
all, have an alarming tendency to leave
tlie country for the towns and cities?
Train them for country life and they will
seek country life. Or perhaps a better
way to put it is, train them so they are
as well fitted for country hfe as for town
life. The situation will then take care of
itself.
How the South Suifers
The South has suffered in the past and
is suffering now because, though it is
mainly an agricultural country, it has
failed to train its boys and girls iiit-lli-
gently to comi)ete in country life. The
price that is being paid for this blander
is a dear one. It can be computed in the
billions of dollars. The items we all
1 STEADY GROWTH
^’he HJniversity Summer School has
•grown steadily in popularity and useful-
n&s?. The attendance for the past nine ] know; hundreds of thousands of impov-
j^ars has been as follows: j erished and wrecked people; enormous
Jl907 36 , meat and feed liills from the West and
|j,90S 53 1 so on.
ROUGH ELECTRIC SHOCK
The sincerest devotion ofttinies (-alls
for rough electric shock.
We do not with sufficient plainness,
or sutticient profoundness, aildress
ourselves to life: nor'dare we chant
our own limes and social circuni-
.'^tanct'S. —l-'mer.-ion.
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..76
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,2L>5
463
,500
.596
731
And when I hear some town l>ooster
talking of the glory of the city that has
sprung up in the past ten or fifteen years,
of its paveii streets, its water system, its
tine stone school buildings, I cannot help
thinking of the shame of tlie country
aliout it. The two may not appear to go
TRADE SCHOOLS IN THE
UNITED STATES
In the entire United States, according
to th(^ Commission on National Aid to
\'ocational Education, there are fewer
trade sclioofs than exist in the tittle king
dom oi Bavaria w'hich has a population
only a little larger than New York City.
Previous to the beginning of the Great
War more workers were being trained at
public expense in the City of Munich
than in alt the larger cities of the United
States put together, with their population
of 12,000,000.
Here at Home
What is being done in our North Caro
lina cities for industrial education? Are
we alive to tlte needs of our growing man
ufacturing centers? Are the .schoolmen
looking forw'ard to the time^when they
must meet the demands of the manufac
turers? The situation is serious and
merits our vi'ry careful thought and
atndv.
'The outlook for the coming year prom- together but they inevitably do
fies a thousand students. Beginning as ,
sf;mere side-show, the Sununer School |
lias steadily grown until to-day it is a big
^ctor in Unix ersity work and threatens
to eclipse the regular session in enroll
ment. Nothing at present retards its
growth save the room capacity of the
Ifniversity and Chapel Hill. Alreaily the
Umit of onr facilities is being closely ap-
])roache(f.
College Degree Courses
Not less notable has been the iuiprove-
iient in tlie character and scope of work
Of necessity only a few courses
#ould be ottered at first; and no credit of
^any sort was alloweil for this work. More
than a hundred courses are seheduleti for
this summer. Some of them count to- i
Tward State and county teachers’ certiti-
-ates, and some towards academic de-
rees.
To the student, teacher, and superin-
endent who desires to spend part of the
acation in fruitful and serious work the
'niversity Summer School otters excep-
ional opportunities.
The Larger Obligation
I The point of all this is simply that the
j county must aid financially in the con-
I solidation of its rural schools. It must
share in the construction of new build
ings and must pay a large proportion of
the increased running expenses. If there
isn’t enough money in sight it must be
borrowed against the future. It is a res
ponsibility and an obligation of the
counties to do so.—Roger A. Derby.
WATCH US NEXT YEAR
A POWERFUL FACTOR
We went running out into the south
western part of the state a short while
ago and on our way w e had a chance to
visit the Baptist Orjthanage at Tlioinas-
ville.
It was pleasing to observe how pro
gressive and how etHcient the organiza
tion of the work there was.
The workers are stulents of their prob
lems. they think at their work, th« y jilan
for the future, and they comhim- com
mon sense with theory.
We came away regretfully i'Ut we
brought with us great good cheer ami a
brightened outlook on life from iiu- leu
hours of association with these cnnsecra-
ted men and women. They are a [lowe'"-
ful force in the social, economic aii'l edu
cational work of our state.
SOLID SAMPSON
Among the many County Commence
ments attended this spring the une in
Sampson county is destined to stanil out
most prominently. If for no other reason
this would be true because of the unified
and concentrated .sentiment tliere for all
things that make for'Iietter liviiiL'' and
happier homes. .
Unity, co-operation, |mutnal effort, are
all keywords to the situation there. The
folks have learned to unite their inter
ests and their efl'orts, and the results are
plainly evident in the live.- of the i-hil-
reu and lionles of the people.
One Illustration
3|The story of sanitation fat Ingold is an
excellent illustration. Two years ago
this community like other North Caro
lina communities had much illness du(‘
til preventable causes. It became an
organized community, united in an effort
for sanitation with the result that for a
jieriod of one year there has not lieen a
single ca.se of' a preventalile di.sease in
Ingold. They are beginning now to
talk about a county physician who shall
be paid to keep tliem all well rather than
to doctor them when ill.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 74
THE BEST TEACHER IN
THE STATE
ft has l»een said that the best teacher
in the state has been teaching for the
past tw:o years in a little one-teacher dis
trict scliool which went from bad to
worse for years before she took charge of
it. There are 72 children of .school age
in the district and the term before she
began teaching the school, there was an
enrollment of 32 and a daily average at
tendance of 15 pupils. Her second term
is now in its last month and she reports
an enrollment of 48 with an average daily
attendance of 35.
Always at Worh
She is a quiet little teacher who dis
likes publicity, but she is always at work
or her school wliether in the school-
ooin or out of it, and somehow or other,
she has the knack of winning the confi-
di'iice and the backing of the children
iind their parents, and all of the people
in the community unite in declaring tliat
she is the best teacher in the state.
An Inspiration to All
she is an inspiration to all wlio work
with her and she moves others to flo
things for the school. She found no
money, in the treasury to pay for .-cour-
iiig the floor, but the larger girls kioked
after that and they see that tiie If or is
swept every day and that tlie window
panes are kept always bright and shining;
and too,- they have hung pretty, uplift
ing pictures on the walls .so that the
little schoolhonse is really a most attrac
tive place. The boys have planted a
hedge along the road which runs by the
.schoolhonse and have set out native trees^
and shrubs in the yard, so that it is now
the prettiest schoolyarfi in the county.
Popular with the FolKs
It used to be that the teacher in this-
school had great ditficulty iu finding a
boarding place of comfort and conven
ience, but now this faithful teacher
would be a welcome boarder at any home
in the district This enthusiastic young
teacher know's hou to teach, how to win
confidence, and how to lead both chil
dren and parents into al' the good things
that build up the community.
Is She a Fixture?
A week or two ago another ilistrict
ottered h(‘r a larger salary and a longer
term as well. Will she accept this otter?
Will the patrons and the school commit
tee let her go, nr will they get busy and
laise the money neces.-ary to keep her?
■■ome districts in North Carolina increase
their school fund by private subscriptions
or by cultivating an acre or two of cot
ton, the proceeds of which shall go to the
school fund,—but will this young teacher
be allowed to leave her present position?
What would your school coinniitteemen
do if >he taught in your district? In the
slang of the day.—it is up to the school
committee and |>ublic sentiment.
Our North Carolina Total
sum was deposited in the banks of Mas- j from North Carolina to Texas!
sacbusetts. New York and Pennsylvania. Bank savings iu Iowa average !tl67.96
per inhabitant. In these eiglit cotton
I belt states the av erage is only 3i7.37.
Our bank savings in Xorth (Carolina
were $22,000,GOO; a >um nearly equal to i ^ ® Chance oi Cotton Farmers
the assessi'd value of the capital stock, 1 lie South in an average year produces
real and |)ersonal [iroperty of tJie 482 !billion dollars of wealth in cot-
bijnks on the 1914 tax digest of the State. Icotton seed, and linter.s. If, by a
Which is to say, the primary resources of j system of live-at-hoine
our banks in North Carolina are nearly ' lurming, we could hoM down a reason-
douliled by onr .“avings deposits alone ! able proportion of this wealth from year
n total savings deposits. North Caro- | S'^ar, we would be in ten years the
lina ranked 28th among the states of the ■ 'ivhest agricultural reaion on earth.
.Vs
STUDYING THEIR PROBLEMS
A\'e rail against acijuaintances from
even dilferent counties in Hillsboro at
the great County Commencement there
the other day. Six thousand is a very
"onser\-ative estimate of the crowd in at-
endance.
We’ve had seven c.omuiencements, said'j IiuTeasing e\'ideiice is accumufiLiug at
ne man, but this Orange event beats the I uiversity School of Ediicatiiui that
hem all. We can't do anything like j the school men of the state are begm-
his iu our. county, and we’ve tried it: ning to awaken to the necessity of study-
hree times; our county is not wide-awake | ing their school problems.
: Orange, said another visitor. Beats; It is no longer the lashion forsupeiin-
*iy county, hands down, said a visitor! tendents and principals to let school mat-
ifrom another coimty. I ters drift along year after year compla-
All of which was too much for an I cently thinking and publicly saying that
)Tange county farmer standing nearby, j they guess their schools are doing pretty
ou want to watch us next year, said he;
is our tirst year and, by gum. Old
,Orange has just started I
It is Up to Our Leaders
If the people of Orange were ever in
doubt about their ability to do great
hiugs, that doulit has disappeared for~-
"ver. And the greatest things that we
will ever do will be the things that we do
for our children. Manifestly nothing is
too good for the children of Orange.
Clearly the people are alive, alert, and
aspiring. They are ready to follow. Are
our leaders ready to lead into larger ef
forts and achievements—say, better
schools, longer terms, better equiinnents,
more local tax districts, a farm-life school,
the medical inspection of schools and
school children, a whole-time county
liealth officer, .sanitary homes an
and so on and on?
well, as well as others are anyway.
No, school men must know how their
schools stand, they must have concrete
evidence concerning the eft'ectiveness of
tlieir form of organization, grading, dis
tribution of funds, erticiency of the teach
ing force, and similar matters.
Asheville Doing It
.lust the otiier .lay we received from
Superintendent Harry Howell at Ashe
ville his Teachers Bulletin No. 19 setting
forth very clearly ^ the condition
Asheville schools in regard tfi
tion.
Aslieville is studying her .school prob
lem in a business-like way and striving
for ways and means to better the condi
tions. It is a hopeful sign; may she con
tinue to attack these problems in the sane
schools ! and sensible way marked out by Superin
tendent Howell!
of the
Retarda-
THE COUNTRY-LIFE
CONFERENCE
we go to press tbi.- week a (confer
ence of ministers representing all the
leading denominations is considering on
the I'niversity campus a working program
for Country-Life Institutes in North Caro
lina.
.\ special issue of the University News
Letter will be devoted to their program
when it is complete'!.
THE SHAKESPEARE FETE
Another campus event that occurs as
we pass up our copy to the printers this
week is The Shakespeare Fete.
We pencil this note midway the ]iro
gram.
If the screen camera artist misses these
scenes, he will lose a chance at the lov-
liest thing on the University campus in
a hundred years.
THRIFT IN NORTH CAROLINA
The table in this issue, prepared by 5Ir.
,1. K. Holloway of Wake county, ranks
the states according to the total of sav
ings deposited in banks of all sorts, as
these appear in the 1915 Report of the
federal Comptroller of the Currency.
The figure.^ for each state cover sa\-ings
deposits, time deposits, and postal sav
ings, as itemized by Savings banks, State
banks. National banks, Loan and Trust
companies, and Private banks reporting
to the Wasliington authorities.
The National Total
In June of last year the people of the
United States had mort than seven and a
half billion dollars laid up against a
rainy day. It was an average of 17.50
per inhabitant, counting men, women,
and children. Nearly half of thi.a va.st
I’nion. Among the Southern States our
rank was 5th. \'irginia made a better
showing by some fifleen million dollars,
and Louisiana by some seven million dol-
ars. .South tJarolina and Tennessee were
inly slightly ahead of us.
Our bank savings were nearly as great
as the bank savings of both Alabama and
Mississippi; and 50 per cent greater than
tiio.=e of Georgia. These three great cfit-
ton states somehow 'all down on bank
■savings. .\ud North Carolina stands
nearly two million dollars ahead of Texas,
the greatest of all the cotton growing
states.
The Thrift of Food Farmers
But now look at the bank savings of
Iowa, a well developed food-producing
state. The-total was nearly ■'ilSl.OOO.OOO.
It is $10,000,000 more than the bank
savings of nearly nineteen million ;)eo))le
in the eight leading Cotton Belt states.
Cotton farmers produce wealth; food
farmers accumulate wealth. Mark that!
If cotton and tobacco farmers were also
food farmers in some sutticient way, there
is no imaginable limit to the wealth we
might accumulate in the farm regions of
the South.
Savings Accounts in North
Carolina
()n .lune 30, I'.il-') our savings on deposit
iu 474 North Carolina banks Wi're $22;-
010,650, as follows:
28 Joint Stock Savings Banks $5,457,571
80 National Banks
Time Deposit-i 7,358,981
Postal Saving' 28,008
348 State Bank,'
Savings Department 5,333,654
Postal Savings 5,1^4
18 Loan and Trust Companies
Savintrs Deposits 3,814,338
Postal Savings 11,784
TOTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITS IN ALL BANKS, JUNE 1915
Based on Report Federal Comptroller of the Currents^
J. K. HOLLOWAY. Wake County.
University of North Carolina
Grand Total i>7.677.S55,254 for the United State.s
Rank States
Sa\ ings Deposits i
Rank States
Savings Dejwsits
1
New York
$1,988,534,936 !
25
Nebraska
24,(>50,686
2
Massachusetts
958,555.867
26
South Carolina
23,627,945
3
Pennsylvania
656,873,116
27
Tennessee
23,135,163
4
California
481.088,058
28
ivorth Carolina
•22,OIO,6-'iO
5
Illinois
378.497,300
29
Utah
21,472,993
6
Ohio
368,086,581
30
Florida
. 20,934,266
7
Connecticut
336.395,702
31
Tex^s
20.442.462
8
New Jersey
269,396,666
32
North Dakota
20,409,79.5
9
Michigan
237,735.398
33
Kansas
19.138.874
10
Iowa
. 150,944,406
34
South Dakota
18,865,814
11
Maine
14'.),977.941
35
Kentucky
18,507,07s
12
Marylaiul
14b.703.822
3b
Delaware
17,9-55,608
13
Rhode Island
144,063,918
37
Montana '
16,836,919
14
New Hainpsh're
110.833.596
38
Oregoii
14,71)9,618
15
Minnesota
109,747,176
39
Georgia
14.146,331
It)
Wisconsin
101,811,644
40
Alabama
12,386,625
17
Vermont
101,554.402
41
Mississiopi
11.023.547
18
Indiana
84,1^1,968
42
Oklahoma
9,248,(i49
19
Missouri
49,665.662
43
Wyoming
6.718,886
20
Washington
47,286,736
44
Nevada
6,494,404
21
N'irgiiiia
37,799.448
45
Idaho
6,29S,647
22
West V'irginia
36,625,342
46
Arkansas
5,993,909
23
Colorado
29,654,641
47
Arizona
5,905.976
24
Louisiana
29,506,860
48
New Mexico
5,172,985