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NOVEMBER 21, 1917
CHAPEL HaL, N. C
VOL. IV, NO. 2
lEdUorial Board . B. C. Branson. J. Gl. de K. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, R. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie.
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the Postotfi.ce at Chapel Hill, N« C., under the act of August 24,1912.
THE FLAG GOES BY
TIenry Holcomb Bennett
Hats off!
• Along the streets there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky;
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Blue and crimson and white it shines,
•Over the steel tipped, ordered lines;
Hats off!
The colors before us fly;
-But more than the flag .is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights, grim and great,
Bought to make and save the state;
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Oheer of victory on dying lips.
Days of plenty and j ears of peace;
March of a strong land’s swift increase;
Equal justice, right, and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe.
•Sign of a nation great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wrong;
Pride and glory and honor—all
•Dive in the colors, to stand or fall.
Hats off!
Along the streets there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
-And loyal hearts are beating high;
Hats off!
'The flag is passing by!
bonds! I ain’t kissing any money good
bye yet—not if I know it. Them bonds
is just a trick to rob us Rubes of our
small change.”
We took comfort in the reflection thatf
after alt he represented a small minority
of the people we live among. Still, the
highways and hedges are full of such
folks. Ninety million people in these
United States have not yet bought any
Liberty Bonds. And it looks as though
any man by patriotic self-denial could
save enough in six months to pay for a
i>50 bond—that much at least!
But will they? It’s worth thinking
about. There must be other Liberty
Bond issues—a half dozen or so more
during the next year or two!
WHOLE SKINS AND FULL
PURSES
GOD SAVE OUR MEN
A new stanza has been added to the
^rational hymn in Canada. In churches,
■on public occasions everywhere, the peo
ple sing it with bowed heads and stream
ing eyes. It is a fitting close to our own
mational hymn. My County ’Tis of Thee;
ior soon we too shall be needing to sing
it, with hearts bowed down, here in the
States, as tlie casualty lists are published
laj by day. Here it is:
“God bless our splendid men!
Send them safe home again:
God save our men!
Keep them victorious, patient, and chiv
alrous.
They are so dear to us:
God save our men! ’ ’
GOD SAVE OUR GOLD
'Overheard in the subway up yonder
•one morning last March on our way
down to Broad Street. “Sam, Roumania
is going to fi,ght, the papers say.”
•“That’s all right, all right, old boy; the
onore they fight the richer we’ll get.”
Overheard in a grocery store
Ihere only the other day. “Old
•we’ll live on bread and water these
and we'll sell anything on earth
down
lady,
days,
we’ve
got, right now while prices are high—
hou.se aiul lot, cats, dogs, pigs, every
thing! This country is going busted fast
and we’ll buy everything back as cheap
a.s dirt when this dad blamed war is
• over. So you just hunt up all the old
Bocks around the house; we’ll need ’em,
,J tell you,”
ITicK-and-Flea Citizens
Who were they? Oh, they were just
• dthe two-legged, tick-and-flea creatures
: , Athat infest and inflict the earth in every
I land and country on the globe. We say
1 tLckrand flea creatures, because they have
the same interest in the communitv or
(•■ij Iccountry in which they live that ticks and
'w>- 'fleas have in the animals on which they
live—just that and no more! They have
no iuterest in anything beyond what
' They can get out of it.
'Xhey have money but they buy no Lib-
•erfcy Bonds. They have time to spare
•but they do no Red Cross work. They
have well filled pantries, barns, and
smoke houses, but they let go nothing
except for top notch prices—not even to
feed and clothe our soldiers and our al
lies abroad who will be face to face with
famine before this war is over. They
:pray God Save our Gold, while others
pray (iod Save our Men.
Our Soldiers RebuKe Them
Our boys at Camp Sevier took nearly a
. million dollars wortli of Liberty Bonds
Not content with ofifer-
The Christian Guardian of Toronto in
a recent issue pays its respects to these
tick-and flea citizens in Canada and Eng
land. They seem to be everywhere.
And whether they read or not, and most
of them do not, their ears must burn
from time to time. The air is every
where electric with indignation.
Here is the blistering rhetoric of The
Guardian:
“Nero fiddling while Rome burned
was a far less odious figure than the man
of today who, while the whole civilized
world is threatened with destruction,
looks on with internal delight that this
great world-conflagration is helping to
swell his fortune. And while our lads
are facing the deadly gas, the whistling
bullet, and the shrieking shell, and our
casualty lists run into the thousands
every month, this man, untouched by it
all, unctuously rubs his hands and
thanks God for the profit which it means
to him.
“If this be patriotism, God save us from
it. Better far to come out of the war
maimed or blind in body, or with for
tune clean spent in the heroic effort to
free the world, than to come through it
with a whole skin and a fortune greatly
increased.
“Stories have come to us again and
again of men who have made hundreds
of thousands and even millions of dollars
out of the war, but they have come from
men who told them in sorrow and shame
that Canadians and Englishmen should
sink so low.
“The only way to permanent wealth
lies in the Christian highway of service,
and when private greed forgets the other
fellow it signs its own death-warrant.
The world’s resources must be used for
the many, not the few, and the only
civilization which can be permanent
must recognize this fact. Civilization
rests upon brotherhood.”
WHAT WORLD WAR MEANS
Dr. George T, Winston
The significance of the World War
lies in the manifest interdependence
of all the nations of the earth; not
only in industries and commerce, but
also in ideals, principles and systems
of government and ethics.
Universal education and free oppor
tunities are necessary foundations for
democracy. Universal democracy is
the only safeguard of the world, and
“darkest Africa” is a menace to
“brightest Boston.” Every vice,
crime and oppression in any commu
nity is a menace to the whole commu
nity. The raping of Belgium is the
raping of humanity; the sinking of the
Lusitania is the scuttling of freedom;
and Serbia, Poland and Armenia are
in the true sense colonies of humanity.
The world cannot endure half free
and half slave, half democratic and
half autocratic. It must become all
the one or all the other. No man can
be perfectly free until all men are free.
No man can be perfectly wise until all
men are wise. No man can be per
fectly good until all men are good.
The United States cannot be perfectly
free until Belgium is freed, until Po
land, Serbia and Armenia are freed,
until Germany and Austria are freed.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 141
DEPOPULATING THE SCHOOL
One of the very best ways of improving
the quality of the teaching in our schools
is to attract into the profession the best
talent in school and college. And now
since teachers, like all other people, ought
to be paid enough to enable them to pro
vide for their support in old age, the best
talent will never be attracted into the
school work so long as the present low
salaries are paid. Your son or daughter
will not teach for a smaller monthly salary
five or six months in the year than he
could make per month during the whole
year.
The Blanktown High School
The school committee of Blanktown
advertised for a teacher who could teach
all of the High School studies mentioning
especially Latin, English, Arithmetic,
and German. Salary $57.50 per month
for eight months.
In the same paper there was an adver
tisement calling for 1000 laborers at $2.75
per day of ten hours, and for carpenters
at $5.50 per day of ten hours. These men
were wanted to build warehouses for the
government. The teacher is needed to
build character for the government.
Comment
A laborer, who has to sign the payroll
with a cross mark is paid $71.50 per
month straight time, and time and a half
for overtime, while the Blanktown com
mittee is advertising for someone who has
spent seven years in a grammar school,
four years in a high school, and four years
in college—a total of fifteen years of prep
aration in all, for the sum of $57.50 per
month for eight months in the year. This
is something to think about and it is
thought about not only by teachers but
by those who would like to teach if they
saw a living in it.
es in price in the United States: corn
meal more than double, 115 per cent;
flour and potatoes more than double, 110
per cent each; lard nearly double, 81.5
percent; bacon, ham, round-steak, and
pork chops, increase two-thirds each;
sugar and sirloin steak little more than a
half each; rib roast and poultry nearly a
half each; and milk, b’utter, and eggs a
fourth each.
In addition, all too few of us in the
United States have the habit of thrift so
usual in the'Old World countries. We
are wasteful and extravagant, indi
vidually and nationally, and sooner or
later we must learn the lesson of frugal
ity.
Now is the accepted time; it means
national salvation.
zation and the progress to all nations
great and small.
Speed of production and the mobiliza
tion of all national power mean the sav
ing of human life, an earlier ending of
the designs of autocracy and militarism,
and the return of peace and happiness to
the peoples of the earth.
Assembled on the call of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States and
representing more than half a million
bu.'iness men and every industry in every
state in the Union, this convention prom
ises to our people that business will do all
in its power to prevent waste of men and
material, and will dedicate to the nation
every facility it has developed and every
financial resource it commands, on such
terms, and under such circumstances, as
our Government shall determine to be
just.
derstanding that they are to be used on
standard motion picture projectors,
handled by competent operators; that a
report of the films used and the attend
ance shall be made on blanks furnished
and mailed to us after each performance;
that films shall be returned immediately
after use, or forwarded to the next ex
hibitor as the case may be; and that no
admission fees to the public are to be
charged, nor are there to be collections,
during or after the exhibition.
NEW CLUB YEAR-BOOK
GERMAN GOSI^EL
We are beginning slowly, humbly, and
yet with deep gladness to divine God’s
intentions. It may sound proud, my
friends, but we are conscious that ibis al
so in all humbleness that we say it: the
German soul is God’s soul; it shall rule
over mankind .... The German
soul is the world’s soul, God and Ger
many belong to one another . . . Ger
many is the center of God’s plans for the
world.—From On the German God, by
Pastor Lehmann.
Friedrich Nietzsche was but the last of
the singers and seers who, coming down
from the height of heaven, brought to us
the tidings that there should be born
from us the Son of God, whom in his
language he called the Superman.—Prof.
W. Sotnbart, in Germany.
(O the other day
_ ing their lives, they also surrendered
^ their little pay envelopes to their country
^ and to humanity
^ But
•said, ‘
my
No,
grocery-store acquaintance
1 ain’t buying any liberty
of
THE SELFISH VIEW
Food conservation, like the buying
Liberty Bonds, does not necessarily en
tail personal sacrifice. One can help the
cause of the United States without hard
ship. In fact, one can scarcely avoid
personal benefit. Almost all of us can
eat less with profit to ourselves.
Apart from that, most of us will be
obliged to eat less because of the cost of
food. Taking as a basis the average re
tail prices for the five years just before
the war, the various familiar foods in
July, 1917, showed the following increas-
THE FOOD PLEDGE CAMPAIGN
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
The national campaign which is now
under way for economy in food must not
be understood as one that asks people to
eat less. Neither does it mean to advise
about the management of households. It
merely presents to the people the needs
of our country and our allies for food to
help prosecute the war.
Wheat, meat, fats, and sugar are need-
on the other side. Shortage of vessels
makes it impossible to obtain supplies any
where but in the United States. Only
by economizing in our own consumption,
and by using substitutes can we provide
the necessary amounts. No use to ask
why we should not send as substitutes
the foods we are asked to cosume our
selves. Most of them are too bulky, others,
like corn, are unfitted to give the best
results. The greatest effects will be ob
tained by doing exactly as we are asked
to do.
The meats we are asked to save are
beef, pork and mutton. Wheat must be
saved, so also we are to eat less butter
and sugar. The wheat shortage of our
allies will be 350,000,000 bushels. By the
use of corn products and potatoes we can
save perhaps 150,000,000 bushels, leaving
a gap of 200,000,000 bushels which those
in dire need must make up by a still
further use of the substitutes they are
now using or else go without. And this
is a time when the situation is so acute
that victory depends upon the food
supply.
Food Will Win the War
Food will win the war. . A lack of food
will lose it, with all the treasure and
blood that has been spent. If lost, we
can goose-step the rest of our lives. The
question is squarely up to the American
people. The future lies, not in the laps
of the gods, but on our tables.
The issues at stake in this stupendous
struggle involve the moral ideas of jus
tice and liberty for which our forefathers
fought, the protection of the innocent and
helpless, the sanctity of womanhood and
home, the freedom of opportunity for all
men, the assurance of the safety of civili-
CAROLINA DAY, DECEMBER 14
North Carolina Day will be celebrated
this year in the public schools of the
State on December 14—the second Friday
in December.
The day will be utilized tor a great
patriotic celebration in each public school
house of the State for the stimulation of
thrift, conservation, and patriotic ser
vice among the children and among all
the people of the community, and for the
general dissemination of information
about the great State and National move
ments for thrift, conservation, and patri
otism, the reasons therefor, and the aims
and purposes thereof.
Make, Save, Serve
The entire program will be built around
the three ideas of thrift, conservation, and
patriotism. The slogan oLthe program
will be Make, Save, Serve. The active (O
operation of all patriotic organizations of
the State and the County—the food con
servation boards, the councils of defense,
the Red Cross chapters, the Liberty Bond
committees, the Women’s Clubs, and all
the rest with the educational forces in
each county and school district, will be
enlisted for making North Carolina Day
a powerful agency this year in promoting
and advancing the patriotic purposes
for which all of these organizations are
unselfishly working. The chairman of the
State Council of Defense, the secretary of
the State Historical Commission, and the
State Food Administrator are cooperating
with the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction and the State Department of
Education in the preparation of the pro
gram.
MOTION PICTURE SERVICE
Through the courtesy of the Bureau of
Commercial Economics and other indus
trial organizations, the University,
through the Bureau of Extension, is of
fering a film service to schools, boards of
trade, Y. M. C. A’s, and other organiza
tions during the year 1917-18. The sub
jects of the films will be industrial, edu
cational, and scenic, and will cover the
industries and scenery of the United
States, Canada, England, France, Italy,
and many other foreign countries.
No charge will be made for the films,
but the exhibitor will pay the express
charges from and to Chapel Hill, if the
films are not on a circuit. In case they
are on a circuit the exhibitor will pay
charges from the last point in the circuit.
The 1916-17 Y’ear-Book of the North
Carolina Club at the University of North
Carolina has just gone to the printers,
and will go into the mails within the next
fortnight. Necessarily the edition is
small. It will be sent free of charge to ■
anybody who wants it in North Carolina,
and to people outside the state for 25
cents.
It cannot be mailed out at random.
The Club does not have a single copy to
waste. But it will go to those that want
it and write for it. Already there are a
hundred or more applications on hand.
If you want it drop us a card at once.
Its twenty-four chapters are devoted to
Wealth and W’elfare in North Carolina.
They are an intimate study of (1) the
sources of primary wealth and the total
annual production, (2) the retention and
accumulation of wealth, (3) the business
uses of wealth, and (4) the civic and so
cial uses of wealth in North Carolina.
The contents are as follows:
The Wealth Produced by Carolina
Farms, S. H. Hobbs, Jr., Sampson
County.
Industrial Wealth Created in North
Carolina, W. E. Price, Rockingham
County.
The Wealth Produced by our Forests
and Woodlots, J. V. Baggett, Sampson
County.
The Wealth Produced by our Fisheries,
Mines and Quardes, L. H. Hodges,
Rockingham County.
The Accumulated Wealth of North
Carolina, J. E. Kendall, Davidson
County. •
The Retention of Farm AYealth in
North Carolina, J. A. Capps, Gaston
County.
Too Little Livestock in North Carolina,
E. C. Branson, University Faculty.
Our Industrial Capital: Accumulation
and Forms, R. E. Price, Rutherford
County.
Bank Capital in North Carolina: How
Accumulated, Marion Fowler, Durham
County, and S. H. Hobbs, Jr., Sampson
County.
Bank Capital in Carolina Counties,
T. D. Stokes, Rockingham County.
Bank Loans and Discounts in Carolina
Counties, A. O. Joines, Alleghany
County..
Bank Account Savings in North Caro
lina, M. H. Randolph, Alecklenburs
County.
Thrift in North Carolina, J. K. Hollo
way, AA’ake County.
The AYealth on Our Tax Books, H. B.
Simpson, Union County.
Daybreak in Carolina, E. C. Branson,
University Faculty.
Our State Revenues aud the Cost of
State Government, S. H. Hobbs, Jr.,
Sampson County.
State Department Earnings and Ex
penses in North Carolina, R. E, Price,
Rutherford County.
The General Property Tax in North
Carolina, W. R. Kirkman, Guilford
County.
AYhat the State Does AYith the Tax
payer’s Dollar, A. 0. Joines, Alleghany
County.
Aid to Agriculture in North Carolina,.
J. V. Baggett, Sampson County.
Our Support of Public Education, H. V.
Koonts, Rowan County.
Our Investment in Public School Prop
erties, Myron Green, Union County.
Public Health AA’ork in North Carolina,
M. H. Randolph, Mecklenburg County.
Charities and Corrections in North.
The films are distributed with the un- Carolina, D. E. Eagle, Iredell County.