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I, P' II" Liba ar The news in this publica tion is released for the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolina for its Bureau of Elxtension. JUNE 26, 19.18 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. VOL. IV, NO. 31 BdHorial Board i B. 0. Branson, J. C4, deK, Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, -R. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie. Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the Postotfiee at Chapel HIU, N. 0., under the act of August 24,1912 WAR SAVINGS WEEK OVER THE TOP BY JUNE 28 The week from June 23 to 28, in clusive, has been designated as War Savings Week. President Wilson has proclaimed Friday, June 28th, as Na tional War Savings Day and has re quested every man, woman and child to pledge himself on or before the 28th, to save and buy War Savings Stamps to the utmost of his ability. - Governor Bickett urges every tax payer to pledge himself to buy all the War Savings Stamps that in his hon est opinion he will be able to pay for during the remainder of the year. The purpose is that the War Savings Cam paign shall be made to go over the top by an intensive campaign, and that it may not be necessary to take the re mainder of the year to secure the' amount desired. | The plan by which Nebraska suc ceeded in oversubscribing her quota by four million dollars and raising over fifty per cent of her sales by April 1, is the plan that will be adopted not only in North Carolina but in every State in the Union. Wliat Nebraska has done it is believed at State Head quarters and by all War Savings work ers that North Carolina can do. Con sequently the plans for an intensive State-wide drive have been carefully worked out and are now being execut- j ed by State, County and Township ! Chairmen. The chief principle of the plan adopted is a house-to-house canvass and the taking of subscriptions from, every tax-payer in the township, or his i excuse for not subscribing. A record j of every man’s pledge and support of | this cause will be kept. On Friday, June 28, every tax-pay er will be summoned to appear at the 1 schoolhouse in his school district for | the purpose of either celebratin’g the occasion of his township’s raising its . quota, or if that be not the case, to! finish raising the township quota. The township will be the unit of organiza tion in the campaign and “Every town- , ship ‘over the top’ by June 28, in War Savings pledges” will be the motto.- Con'cord Times. date, any time you please. In this particular. War Saving Cer tificates are better than Liberty Bonds —as even a child can see. Another thing will strike people with money-sense. When we take ?80,000 worth of War Savings stamps in Chapel Hill township we get back $3,200 a year in government interest or nearly $15,000 by Jan. 1, 1923. That’s nearly as much as our share of the county taxes year by year. Thirty-two hundred dollars a year will buy a lot of bread, bonnets, and paregoric for the families of Chapel Hill township. THE MERCHANTS’ JOB The National Merchants’ Association has agreed to buy a cool hundred mil lion dollars’ worth of war savings stamps and to sell them to their custo mers or offer them as change whenever the customer is willing to take them. If he prefers his change in cash, all he has to do is to say so. The merchants’ load is $115 worth of stamps per clerk, counting the pro prietor. The Chapel Hill merchants are up against a $6,000 proposition. That’s the amount of war savings stamps they are expected to take or to pledge themselves to take by June 28. They have all the rest of the year in which to dispose of them to their customers. Messrs. A. R. Baer and R. C. An drews are the Chapel Hill Committee that will arrange these sales with our merchants. If you want to see who has a patriotic interest in War Savings Stamps, watch for the posters in the store windows. The High Point merchants weie marked up to sell $50,000 worth. They held a meeting the other night and ac cepted the obligation with a whoop. The Chapel Hill merchants can and will do just as well as those of any other town in North Carolina. We have no slackers here; or let us hope so. However, watch the show windows. Take War Stamps for Change, and trade with merchants that have them on hand for sale. OUR CHAPEL HILL JOB Our war savings allotment in Chapel Hill township is $80,0(10. So far, our sales and pledges amount to only $17,- 475.77. Our job is to sell stamps and secure , pledges amounting to $62,525 by June | 28. The pledges can be redeemed at i the postoffice at any time before Jan uary 1. . . i It’s a man s size job. If we keep out of the list of slacker townships we must sell on War Sav ings Week an average of $15.63 per inhabitant, counting men, women, and children of both races; or $78.15 per household. i Our allotment is $20 per inhabitant or $100 per family of five. At present ; we have bought and pledged only $4.36 per inhabitant. i We shall have to get busy—mighty busy in the country neighborhood, in i iCarrboro, in Chapel Hill, and in the negro church communities. i i E. C. Branson is township chaii'man, 'Miss Hattie M. Berry is Chairman of' rthe Chapel Hill Community Club com-1 vmittee, R. H. Ward heads the Carrboro ' 'drive, and R. E. Malone the canvass ■-.[jimong the negroes of the township. j A TIP-TOP INVESTMENT | ' Thrift stamps cost 25 cents apiece, | and savings Certificates $4.17 each. | They can be bought at any store or bank or postoffice or rural mail carrier in the township. A hundred dollars in War Stamps costs only $83.40, and a thousand dollars worth costs only $834. Here are five reasons why Wai Stamps are a tip-top investment. 1. A $4.17 war certificate is wortn $5 on Jan 1, 1923. Which is to say, the investment earns 83 cents mean- while. , . J Your money is earning nearly 4 /- per cent interest, you see. 2. Savings stamps are tax-free. That is a thing that appeals to long headed folks. „ 3. They are absolutely sate, tour Certificate is registered in your name at the postoffice. No matter 'I lose it, or somebody steals it, nobody but you can cash it at the postoffice. It’s as good as gold for you, but it s trash for anybody that tries to de fraud you. 4. Besides, you can get your money back any time you want it or need i . The po.stmaster will cash your war saving certificates with interest to OUR WAR SAVINGS DRIVE Every community of Chapel Hill township, town and country, is covered by the War Savings Committee organ ized for the big drive on June 23-28. 1. The Central Committee is E. C. Branson, Mayor W. S. Roberson, R. H. Ward, Lueco Lloyd, Rev. J. F. Mc Duffie, Miss H. M. Berry, Mrs. Collier Cobb, Mrs. Jane W. Ray, Mrs. J. M. Lloyd, Mrs. Lizzie Blackwood, L. C. Patterson, Clay Hogan, W. A. Long, G. A. Hearn, C. L. Rich, J. Add Duke,' R. P. Blackwood, R. L. Smith, W. C. Pearson, M. C. S. Noble, M. H. Stacy, E. V. Howell, Collier Cobb, and C. S. Mangum. R. E. Malone with the color ed ministers is heading the work with the negroes. 2. Church and Sunday School Com mittee: M. C. S. Noble, E. C. Bran son and the ministers of the township. 3. War Savings Day Committee: M. C. S. Noble, Mayor Roberson, and N. W. Walker. 4. Publicity Committee: Miss H. M. Berry, L. A. Williams, E. V. How ell, F. P. Tilley, C. J. Meetze and James Patterson. 5. Limit Club Member Committee: C. B. Griffin, M. E. Hogan, Lueco Lloyd, R. H. Ward, E. V. Howell and I. W. Pritchard. 6. Merchants Committee: A. R Baer and R. C. Andrews. 7. Postoffice Sales: R. S. McRae, S. C. Johnson, J. B. Hocutt, R. S. Neville, J. E. Merritt. The House-to-House Canvass The teams and team captains will be announced in our next issue. These are the people who are willing to give June 24-28 to the work of house-to- house, face-to-face, personal solicita tion. Theirs is the hard job of selling, or securing pledges to take, the bal ance of our War Savings allotment before June 28—some 60 odd thousand dollars in this township. People who do not have .the reaay cash can sign a pledge to buy thrift certificates at the postoffice before Jan. 1, or they can borrow money at the bank and deposit their certificates as security. NEIGHBORHOOD RALLIES The War Saving Day committee is busy. Our 11 country church com.- munities have already been visited by an automobile party consisting of Miss WAR SAVINGS WEEK War savings week for North Car olina was proclaimed today by Gov ernor Bickett, who uses Mr. Micaw- ber as an illustration of thrift and the old gentleman’s formula as the outward and visible sign of in ward invisible enterprise. The proclamation follows the President’s address to the people of the United States and the $4.17 spent now for a thrift certificate is likened unto the pound of which Mr. Micawber spoke. Says the gov ernor: “Charles Dickens’ most famous character is Mr. Micawber. Micaw- ber’s most famous saying is: ‘An nual income twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen, six; result: happiness. Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, twen ty pounds, six; result: misery.’ “Four dollars dnd seventeen cents invested in a five dollar war savings certificate will take care of this pivotal pound, and place it on the right side of the family ledger. To the ninety and nine thrift stamps and war savings certificates afford the best opportunity to serve and to save themselves and the nation. “If our people will invest $50,- 000,000 in these securities they will open for themselves a new door of hope, and for North Carolina a new era of financial independence. “After the war there will be tre mendous competition for business between nations, communities and individuals. North Carolina may not hope to get its legitimate share of this business unless we shall store up the capital with which to carry it on. If we fail to do ihis North Carolina soldiers will come home to a land without jobs, and will of necessity be draiyn away from us into more thoughtful and provident communities. “The issue is vital and plain. “The purchase of war savings certificates siifells industrial salva tion. “The failure to purchase war sav ings certificates spells industrial suicide. Governor’s Proclamation. “Therefore, I, Thomas Walter Bickett, governor of North Caro lina, do hereby set apart the period beginning Saturday, June 23rd, and ending Friday, June 28th, as War Savings week, and during this week the people of North Carolina are urged to pledge themelves to pur chase thrift stamps and war sav ings certificates to the face value of $48,638,314.00, being $20 for every man, woman and child in the state. “To this end I urge every individ ual and every organization, reli gious, educational, social and indus trial, to devote their thoughts and energies to this vital campaign dur ing the period named. “And especially do I urge, “1. The mayors of all towns and cities to issue War Savings procla mations; “2. All ministers of the Gospel and superintendents of Sunday schools to talk to their people on Sunday, June 23rd on the salvation of thrift. “3. That from Monday, June 24th, to Thursday, June 27th, in clusive, a house to house canvass be made, and every person in the state be given an opportunity to sign a War Saving pledge. “4. That on Friday, June 28th, which is War Savings day, set apart by the President of the United States, every person go to the school house in his district to attend the great War Savings rally to be held there, and to make sure that the quota of that district, which is $20 for every man, woman and child in the district, is purchased or pledged.—Greensboro News. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 152 ENLIST AND GO TO SCHOOL Many a 1918 high school graduate is debating with himself this year: Shall I go to college ? or shall I - enlist at once for military service ? The War Department has just made it possible to do both. It says, in ef fect, to the ambitious young American: “You serve your country by going to college. To make sure that you do not lose thereby the opportunity of serv ing your country in a direct military capacity, you will be asked to join the special U. S. Army college training units that are to be formed. You will be liable for service at a moment’s notice, but because you are worth more to the nation with your college train ing than without it, you will be expect ed to stay in college until called by the Government.” The Announcement The War Department’s announce ment provides that beginning with September, 1918, military instniction, under officers and non-commissioned officers of the army, will be provided in every institution of college grade enrolling for the instruction one hund red or more able-bodied students over the age of eighteen. The necessary military equipment will be provided by the Government. There will be creat ed a military training unit in each in- ' stitution. Enlistment will be purely voluntary, but all students over the age of eighteen will be encouraged to enlist. The enlistment will constitute the student a member of the Army of the United States, liable to active duty at the call of the President. It will, how ever, be the policy of the Government not to call the members of the train ing units to active duty unti 1 they have reached the age of twenty-one, unless urgent military necessity compels an earlier call. Students under eighteen, and therefore not legally eligible for enlistment, will be encouraged to enlist in the training units. Provision will be made for co-ordinating the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps system, which exists in about one-third of the colle giate institutions, with this broader plan. The Double Purpose This new policy aims to accomplish a.two-fold object, the War Department announces,first,to develop as a great military asset the large body of young men in the colleges; and second, to pre vent unnecessary and wasteful deple tion of the colleges through indiscrimi nate volunteering, by ofering to tt students a definite and immediate mili tary status. No nation has made such generous provision for combined military and college education as has the United States in this new plan. The youth who avail themselves of the privilege will be serving their country’s imme diate as well as future needs.—P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion. drive for war stamp sales and pledges on June 23-28 will be arranged this week and announced in our next issue. men, 94 engineering schools a loss of 18 per cent, and 43 schools of medicine a gain of 3 per cent in men and 18 per cent in women.—The Suiwey. H. M. Berry and Messrs. L. A. Wil liams, F. P. Tilley, C. J. Meetze, and E. C. Branson. The War Saving Rallies arranged for to date are as follows: 1. The Community Club, Davie Pop lar, Sunday afternoon, June 9. 2. Chapel Hill School Auditorium, Thursday evening, June 13, 8 o’clock. 3. Blackwood School House, Satur day evening, June 15, 8:30 o’clock. 4. Calvander School House, Sunday June 16, 3 o’clock (old time) 5. Mt. Moriah, Sunday, June 16, 3:30 o’clock. 6. Damascus School House, Sunday, June 16, 3:30 p. m. 7. Union Grove, Sunday, June 16. 8. Summer School, Memorial Hall, Tuesday, June 18, 8 o’clock. 9. Mt. Carmel, Saturday, June 22, 3:30 p. m. 10. Memorial Hall, University Cam pus, Sunday, June 23, 8 p. m. 11. Carrboro, Sunday, June 23. Othef rallies preliminary to the THE CHAPEL KILL TEAMS The Chapel Hill War Stamp teams! and team captains will be appointed by the Community Club War Sav-i ings Committee: Miss H. M. Berry, Miss Josie Pritchard, Mrsi Jos. Archer, Mrs. R. C. Andrews, Mrs.' T. J. Wilson, Mrs. C. T. Woollen, Mrs. H. W. Chase, Mrs. C. S. Man- gum, Mrs. W. D. Toy, and Miss Mary Pritchard. This is the comihittee that sold; $18,600 worth of Liberty Bonds in the; third drive, and they are undertaking to sell $25;000 worth of Savings ^ Stamps between now and June 28. I This is the share of Chapel Hill and, it averages $15 per inhabitant, count-1 ing men, women and children or $75 | per household of five. Everybody will now be given a per- .•lonal chance to buy, or sign a pledge | to buy. War stamps before January 1. j The canvassing teams will be an- j nounced next week. | PATRIOTISM AND SONG CAROLINA IN THE SERVICE Twenty-one members of the Univer sity faculty family or a full fourth of the total have been released for w:.r service.. Thirty-two or nearly a third of our graduating seniors were absent on war duty on commencement day. Nearly 1200 University men past and present (exactly 1185) are nov/ serving the flag of our country. Among the Carolina men in the serv ice are the Secretary of the Navy, 2 brigadier-generals, 8 colonels, 9 lieu tenant-colonels, 20 majors, 78 captains. 216 first lieutenants, 256 second lieu tenants, and 4 chaplains. In the Navy are 4 lieutenant-commanders, 11 pay masters, 7 lieutenants, and 7 ensigns. Sixty Carolina men are in the aviation service, and 502 others are in various other branches of the army and navy, including expert consultation boards, war finance boards, liberty loan and war stamp committees, food and fuel administrations, state and county councils of defense, and so on and on. School auditorium, Thursday even-; ing, 8 o’clock. Brief addresses by Dean j Stacy, and C. J. Meetze, of Virginia. An hour of community music and pat-1 riotism planned by the Community; Club. Everybody invited—men, women, and children! Come on time, enjoy it, and get into the spirit of a great na tional movement. Signed: Miss H. M. Berry, Mrs. C. S. Mangum, Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Mrs. H. W. Chase, Mrs. C. T. Woollen, Mrs. R. C. Andrews, Misses Josie and Mary Pritchard, Mrs. Joseph Archer, Mrs. W. D. Toy, and Mrs. Blanche Patter son. WAR AND THE COLLEGES Colleges of liberal arts have lost about one-fifth of their male students since the United States entered the war, according to figures recently pub lished by the United States Bureau of education. Out of 625 universities and colleges asked to compare their enroll ment in the fall of 1916 with that of 1917, 313 replied. The loss of men in the freshmen classes of these was 16.3 per cent; in the sophomore classes 14.4 per cent; in the junior Classes 23.7 per cent; and in the senior classes 29.4 per cent. Evidently, says the bureau, the war has deterred many high school grad uates from entering college at pres ent, while most of the freshmen al ready in college decided to remain un til fall, since the sophomore class showed the smallest loss. In each Class there is a slight in crease in the number of women. The loss for the entire student body was nearly 11 per cent, as compared with the normal annual increase of 5 per cent. In general, technical and profession al schools show still greater losses of men. Thirty-eight colleges of agricul ture report a loss of 34.9 per cent in HORSE-SENSE All will be well with us if we deter mine to grow at home enough food supplies for man and beast. If we do this the cotton acreage is a matter of secondary concern. If a man is out of debt and his cribs filled with corn; if he has a supply cf hay and some hogs, the high price of cotton or tobacco may make him rich, but low prices will not break him. But if a farm has little or nothing but co:- ton or tobacco, high prices will yield him little more than enough to pay his debts for supplies during the yeai'. If the price of his cash crop is "low that man may have to find an asylum in a bankruptcy court. We were wise in 1915 in diversify ing; we will be wiser in 1918 if we re peat our achievement of three years ago.—Exchange. FINE SCHOOL REPORTS A report from the Stateville Public Schools shows twenty-one War-Sav ings Societies organized and at work, with over $6,000 invested in Stamps by the children. Their goal is $10,00C, which they expect to reach before December 31st. The Rockingham City Schools, witn an enrollment of 600 pupils, have bought $10,127 of War-Savings Stamps, which is a per capita owner ship of $20.25. They have invested al so $7,200 in Liberty Bonds, and since March 13 have contributed $166.12 to the Red Cross. THE HALL OF SHAME “Not all Americans can win a niche in the Hall of Fame, but all can keep out of the Hall of Shame that bears the names of profiteers and hoarders, of wasters, and slackers, and slickers, of both sexes and all ages.”—Youth’s Companion.
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