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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Elxtension.
FEBRUARY 20, 1918
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. IV, NO. 13
Editorial Board i E, C. Branson, J. G. deE. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, K. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie.
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, .it the Postofflce at Chapel Hill, N* C., under the act of August 24, 1912.
SAVING AND SERVING
The jieople of North Oarolina are this
year called to the high calling of thrift—
to the patriotic duty of saving 50 million
dollars and lending it to our government
in the purchase of thrift stamps, and
savings certificates bearing four per cent
interest.
These 50 millions are to be loaned,
mind you, and they bring a double bless
ing. They ble.ss both the lenders and
the cause for which they are loaned.
The teachers and the pupils in our
public schools are called into leadership
in this great thrift campaign, under the
joint direction of Col. If. H. Fries, the
State Director of War Savings, and Dr.
J. V. Joyner, the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
The teachers and the school children
of North Carolina can put this thing
across, if tliey go at it hammer-and-
tongs in our town and country regions.
The country schools alone could do it.
Our farmers are 275 million dollars rich
er this year than they were in the census
year—in crop values alone.
The farmers, bankers, and manufac
turers of the state have made more mon
ey the last three years than they ever did
liefore in all their lives.
We mu.st consecrate our wealth to the
cause of freedom in the earth or our
wealth will corrupt and corrode our souls
in this year of destiny.
Who saves freedom for humanity saves
all tilings, and all things saved shall bless
him : who saves for himself alone, loses
all things, and all things lost shall curse
hiai
If democracy lives, who dies I And if
detiJ icracy dies, who lives! is the chal
lenge of Dr. .loyner.
,Ci.i now it is the little children in
Nortii Oarolina who are being organized
to lead us into serving humanity by sav
ing : and the Master himself is our au
thority for saying that following the lead-
ersfiip of children is finding the way into
the t'vingdom.
LINKED UP WITH LIFE
(o the second Liberty Rond Campaign,
the school children of Philadelphia were
to the seemingly impossible task of
selling two million dollar.s worth of bonds.
They went at their job in a whirlwind of
eothuji.asm, and sold not two but eight
mifiloit dollars worth.
“ V/ith these figures for a basis, bank
ers have calculated that, if the Philadel-
ptda plan were made nationwide and all
tlj0 school children were .sefto selling the
ncKt loan, their total sales might easily
agtgicgate a solid billion. It is not at all
unlikely that the National Government
wilt avail itself of this new found selling
force.
The familiar-cry of progressive educa
tors, “l.iuk up tlie schools with life,”
fia.la, ill the sale of the liberty Bonds,
concrete expression in terms of utility,
rejl Cvlucation and practical patriotism.
Kv'?ry such contact that can be establish-
, ?d between the theories of tlie classroom
and Uie realities of life will make com
mon-school education richer and more
; ,oro I active.’ ’—.Saturday Kveniiig Post.
SCHOOLS CALLED TO COLORS
Vfarttdiigton's Birthday, Feliruary 22,
will celebrated this year in the
HCboola of North Carolina as War Sav
ings Day. The usual program of patri-
■otia songs and speeches will be turned
.into a program of concrete patriotic ser
vice and definite action. At every
scbnt on that day will be a representa
tive of the State M-’ar-Savings committee
to e>;p(ain Tlirift Stamps and War-Sav-
iiig Certificates. Another feature of the
lirogi am will be organizing War-Savings
,Sjcietie.s both in the schools and in the
uchool communities.
Hiip(.. J. Y. Joyner announces that
'llivift Day is only one of the series of
M die, Have, Serve Days that will be ob-
Hci vcd once a month for the remainder of
the tenii. Tlie puWic school army en
rolled i.s 619,246 children commanded 'oy
i4 569 teachers. To teach tins number
of Worth CaroUnians the lessons of Thrift
and ICconoiny, Dr. ,loyner believes, will
he along step toward saving the State and
providing for future prosperity. To this
work he has called all superintendents,
principals, and teachers in the name of
their country and for the life of freedom.
His request'to his co-workers is:
Superintendents, principals, and teacli-
ers, in the name of your country, 1 call
upon you, one and all, to respond to her
call in this hour of need, and to marshall
and to lead your forces in a vigorous
campaign for the sale of War-.Savings
Stamps and Oertificate,s. Follow it up
unremittingly until North Carolina’s
(luota of fifty million dollars has been
sold. In a time like this, every school
should be a patriotic association, ready to
respond to every call of the Government
for such service as it can render. If we
lose this war. Government of the people,
by the people and for the people will per
ish from the earth. If Democracy dies,
who lives! If Democracy lives, who
dies!
NOT WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Our boys are fighting our fight in
France. It is our glorious privilege to
support them as they offer up their lives
at the front.
If we will not deny ourselves and save
for their sakes, then we are not worth
fighting for.
A dime spent in needless self-indul
gence is a traitor dime, and the spender
is a slacker.
Thrift stamps cost only 25 cents at the
postoffiee; and when eight or nine of
them have been saved, they can be ex
changed for a five dollar certificate bear
ing four per cent interest.
The poorest man or the smallest child
at home can fight for humanity with
dimes while our boys tight with guns in
the battle line.
AND PETER SAT WARMING
In the February issue of the xLtlantic
Monthly, Reverend Joseph H. Odell,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church of Troy, N. Y. pours out his soul
on the text, And Peter sat by the fire
warming himself.
It is easily seen that his message con
cerns the part played or not played by
the Christian ministry in the present cri
sis of the world’s history.
We are here noting this really wonder
ful piece of essay literature not to agree
with it or to approve it, but to call wide
spread attention to it.
Dr. Odell ha.s probably written as
much in defense of the church and the
ministry as any other clergyman in
America, but in this deliverance he is
subjecting them both to the rough elec
tric shock that Kmersou called the sin-
cerest friendship,
A GOD OF BLOOD AND IRON
The average Englishman, Frenchman,
or American would not like to go among
a foreign people with the long set pur
pose of betraying his neighbors. No re
luctance of this kind handicaps the Ger
man. The school of ethics in which he
was educated—the devil religion of mod
ern Germany—holds that the supreme
duty of man is toward the state. And
this god of blood and iron reijuires only
one morality of its worshipper—to serve
the glory of the state, thougii every per
son therein be poorer, more degraded,
less happy because of that service.
And no moral command of Christianity
or any other religion, must stand be
tween the pan-Germanist and his god.
For it men must give their souls, if need
be, women must give their bodies. That
policy of implantation, that education in
the sancity of duplicity, accounts for the
success of the German spy system, both
before tiiis war began and since; and it
also accounts for the machinery of prop
aganda, by which the psychological
board in Berlin gets at the mind of the
enemy.—Will Erwin, in Saturday Even
ing Post.
PAYS IN A HUNDRED WAYS
At the regular meeting of the N. 0.
Club at the University on Monday night
Dr. B. E. Washburn, of the State Health
Board, and Dr. ],. B. McBrayer, of the
I
ADDRESS TO AMERICA
Walt Whitman
As a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heaven
ward cleaving,
One song, America, before I go.
I’d sing, o’er all the re.«t, with trum
pet sound.
For thee, the Future.
Hail—sail thy best. Ship of Democracy!
Of value is thy freight—’tis not the
Present only.
The Past is also stored in thee!
Thou boldest not the venture of thy
self alone—
Not of thy western continent alone;
Earth’s resume entire floats on thy
keel, O Ship—
Is steadied by thy spars.
With thee Time voyages in trust,
The antecedent nations sink or swim
with thee;
With all their ancient struggles, mar
tyrs, heroes, epics, wars,
Thou bears’t the other continents;
Theirs, theirs a.s much a.s thine, the
destination-port triumphant;
Steer, steer with good strong hand and
wary eye,—
(I helmsman—thou carryest great
companions,—
Venerable, priestly Asia sails this day
with thee,
And royal, feudal Euroi>e sails with
thee.
State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, were the
speakers.
County Health Work
Dr. Washburn spoke upon County-
Health Work, and outlined the aims,
purposes, and plans of the State Health
Board in carrying on health work by
counties. The essential thing in health
work is the education of the people about
preventable, disease and postponable
death. Health problems must be at
tacked in such a way as to give maximum
results, from an educational standpoint,
at a minimum cost and at the same time
to demonstrate the best methods of con
ducting health work. This is the object
of the State Board through the County
Bureaus.
The chief obstable in health work lies,
said he, in the difficulty that iseople have
in giving up old-fashioned notions about
diseases and remedies. 'They are slow to
learn to apply the simple laws of hygiene
and sanitation in their homes and com
munities ; and I say this, said he, altho
I believe our country people are the most
progressive in the South.
Whatever opposition there is lies in the
fact that they have not yet learned that
health conservation produces greater
monetary returns than any other invest
ment. Education and nothing else can
remove these obstacles.
Wonderful Development
The State Board of Health work began
in 1877 with an appropriation of $100 a
year. Now the state public health fund
from all sources is 1150,000 a year. In
tensive county health work began with
the dispensary system in the hookworm
campaign of 1910-14 conducted by the
Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the
State Health Board. This campaign was
essentially educational and during the
course of it the people of 99 counties were
reached and taught the essentials of dis
ease prevention. This was followed by
more intensive community work. The
plan proved conclusively that a small
governing unit like a county can deal ef
fectively with its definite health problems
and get results.
Following this intensive work nine
counties in co-operation with the State
Health Board undertook health work lo
cally under whole-time health otticers.
These,counties are Wilson, Nash, Rowan,
Northampton, Lenoir, Davidson, I’itt,
Robeson, and Forsyth. They are epneen
trating on soil polution, anti-typhoid
vaccination, malaria, the medical exami
nation of school children, life extension,
infant welfare, and so on. And they
find it paysjn a hundred ways.
Public Health Nurses.
Dr. iMcBrayer spoke on Public Health
Nursing in North Carolina. At present,
said he, there are 65 public fiealth nurses
in the state, supported by public funds,
mill companies, women’s clubs, philan-
J
thropic groups, churches, and lodges,
I aided by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, They are organized under the
State Bureau of Tulierculosis and the
State Health Board. Durham leacs with
five such nurse.s. •
The demand for public health nurses is
greater than the supply. The salaries of-
fererl range from .$900 to $1,200 a year
with expenses while away from home.
To meet this demand, a Training
School for Public Health Nurses is being
planned by the State Health Board co
operating with the University of North
Carolina. The courses in Sociology will
be given by Professor Branson of the
Uaiver.?ity faculty.
Both Dr. Washburn and Dr. McBrayer
congratulated the N. C. Club, the Uni
versity, and the State on the work the
Club is doing.
FRANCE RESTORED
Those who have always admired the
national character of the French are grat
ified to know that in the present great
war the conduct of this brave and gifted
nation has justified their favorable opin
ion.
No one ha,s ever denied to the French
brilliancy and courage. But jt has often
been claimed that they are fickle and un
stable, guided chiefly by an emotional
temperament, and incaple of sustained
eflbrt.
The courteous forms of expression nat
ural to them have been called insincere.
Their delicate language, which permits
even commonplace ideas to be expre,ssed
with elegance, has seemed to some a
proof that the nation lacked virility and
truthfulness. But now, in the light of
present experiences, such judgments must
be reconsidered.
Suddenly called to arms, for three and
a half years the French, with the aid of
their ally, have held in check the armies
of Germany, armies fully equipi>ed and
commanded by oflicers of first-class abil
ity. And who knows what sacrifices
have been made at home, what sorrows
and privations have been endured, with
no word of complaint?
Brave, resourceful, formidable in the
field, at home they are united, patient,
untiring in the efl'ort to save the nation’s
life and honor. It is evident that they
possess strong powers of will and stead
fastness of purpose. Their brave words
are sustained by deeds equally brave. If
we grant that their natural vivacity makes
them easily excitable, is it not also clear
that in a great national crisis they can
rise to a full and manly performance of
duty?
It is well known that the love of the'
French for their country is intense. From
the earliest times la patrie, la belle
France has been the object of an almost
religious devotion. This devotion, sup
ported by unquestioning religious faith,
made the achievements of Joan of Arc
possible. The same devotion to country
has now enabled France to stand before
the world in tier true character.
With her lost territory restored, with
her fertile fields once more yielding their
fruits, she will, we hope, again become
strong in the arts of peace as she has
shown herself strong in the arts of war.—
Walter D. Toy, University of North
Oarolina.
LAFAYETTE. WE ARE HERE
In connection with the Lafayette Asso
ciations and the organization of reading
and study circles on war topics, a new
interest has developed in the life and per
sonality of the gallant young Frenchman
for whom this patriotic movement has
been named.
We all want to know more about the
Marquis Lafayette who came from the
court of Marie Antoinette to throw in his
lot with the American “peasants,” and
to espouse the cause of liberty in the new
world.
There is no better reading for the
American today than the life story of La
fayette. To get it in an hour, pick up the
little book lately added to the library,
called Lafayette, the Friend of American
Liberty, by Alma Holman Burton. This
will lead you to want to read The Life of
the Marquis de Lafayette, by B. C. Head-
ley, also a late addition to the shelves.
While for the family circle or the read
ing club there is the The True Story of
Lafayette, called the Friend of America,
by Elbridge S. Brooks in the Children’s
Lives of Great Men Series. Here the
story is so charmingly told and illustrated
that the book is worthy of a place in
every school library in the state. The
youngest children will be able to find on
the map the department of Auvergne,
where there still stands, as it has stood
for nearly six hundred years, a great for
tified country mansion, known as the
Chateau of Chavaniac. It was in this
grim old castle in tfie rugged Auvergne
mountains that a delicate child was born
on Sept. 6, 1757—bom a Marquis of
France, and styled Monseigneur Marie
Joseph-Paul-A'ves-Roch-Gilbert - Demon -
tier de Lafayette.
How the small boy with the long name,
rich in lands but poor in pocket, was
trained and educated by his noble mother
until he was ready at seventeen to marry
the beautiful Adrienne d’Ayen is a ro
mance to fascinate the High School peo
ple. While older heads will trace with
keen interest the growth of the spirit of
independence in the young courtier, and
his growing determination to escape from
the thraldom of court life and seek ad
venture and distinction in the army of
the colonists over the seas.
Lafayette’s Prophecy
It is precisely in time of danger that I
wish to share whatever fortune may have
in store for you, declared the Marquis to
Franklin in Paris. But it was no easy
matter to break the home ties, and mar
quis though he was, Lafayette had to run
away to sea in his own ship to escape the
French army and the still stricter dictates
of the French court. Among his family
and friends, only his girl-wife understood
his motive and-sympathized with his de
sires. And it was to her that he wrote
during the five weeks of discomfort and
seasickness that marked his voyage to
America: “I trust that for my sake you
will become a good American. It is a
sentiment made for virtuous hearts. The
happiness of America is intimately con
nected with the happiness of all mankind,
she is destined to become the safe and
worthy asylum of all virtue, integrity',
tolerance, equality, and perfect liberty.”
Like a prophecy, came these words
from the lips of the nineteen year old
hero speaking of a land which he had
never seen, and of whose language he was
ignorant, yet whose liberty-loving spirit
was alive in his breast.
It is a far call from that day when the
little ship “Victory” sighted'the Carolina
coast and the brave adventurer came
ashore in an oyster yawl on a sandy shoal
—a far call from that day till the one
when the tide had turned in the other di
rection and at last, at last, Pershing and
the American troops had landed in
France and stood with bared lieads under
the statute of Lafayette in Paris. ‘ ‘La
fayette, we are here, ’ ’ tliey .said.
A far call from the one landing to the
other, but i« between has been fought
the struggle for liberty, equality and
brotherhood on two continents. strug
gle which has cost dearly. Precious lives
and great treasure have gone, down into
the sea or have gone up in the air in
smoke—a struggle whichjs/not yet over
and in which we of th.ftwentieui century
are now callerl upon to play our part.
So long have we had recess from war’s
fierce schooling, and so long have we en
joyed the results of other men’s strug
gling that we had almost forgotten that
we too have a part to play in the great
struggle for world-wide democracy.
Called out suddenly we Americans have
almost staggered to the stage. We are
blinded by the footlights, the chorus of
our own nation is out of tune. \l’e see
an immense audience—th.Jipast and the
future—intent upon'our every awkward
gesture, we are wavering, when suddenly
an heroic figure here and there fixes our
attention and seems to guide our steps.
Among them is Lafayette, from the deck
of his little sailing vessel giving us a sig
nal, “I trust that foi my sake you will
become a good American.”
A hundred thousand American women
clasp hands with you, little Adrien de La
fayette, across the expanse of time and
space. We too have been called out of a
life of selfishness and ease to give son or
father or husband to the cause of liberty.
The prophecy has been literally fulfilled,
“The happiness of^America isj intimately
connected with the happiness of man
kind.”—Mrs. T. W. Lingle, University
of North Carolina.