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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
SEPTEMBER 18,1918
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
CHAPEL HHX, N. C.
VOL. IV, NO. 43
Editorial Board', E. 0. Branson, J. G. deB. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, B. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie.
Entered as second-olass matter November 14.1914, it the Postofflce at Chapel Hill, N. C., under the aot of August 24. '
OUR FARMER.PATRIOTS
THE 8EAI FARMER
And who is the Real Farmer? The
man li-ho farms, simply tio see how
many dollars he can get out of his
year’s labors ? Not for a moment. That
IS all too narrow a conception of the
Real Farmer.
Rather, it is the farmer to whom
tioned in the letter seems to have as
many hounds as the proverbial Car
ter’s oats .
The manufacturer doubtless speaks
in vehement tersjs of the\perverseness
of‘ dog nature when reflecting' upon
their' nicety in declining to eat corn
bread these days when the world war
farm life and farm surroundings Con- decrees. 'The suggestion has been
stitute the ideal ot human happinessj' on to the oflice of the Food Ai-
t’',o farmei' who knows as well how'% example of the
many children he has as how many,’ hounds will be reviewecL in
cuttle and hogs; the farmer to whonij ramifications. The letter fol-
it is as great a pleasure to find in hisj ' !
rambles afield a baby calf,' colt, lamb, “Pardon me for adding to your bur-!
or litter of pigs, with attendant man-, dens, but I do not .know Mr. Hoover I
ifest matei’nal affection, as it" is to and I know you are in cordial accord
grasp the price of a fatted steer; the with everything he is doing. A friemi
farmer who finds satisfaction in bind- of mine who lives a few miles from
ing up a broken leg and oftimes sue-'tWinston is in my office and tells me
teeds when the veterinary said. Oh, that in making a campaign for the ob-
shoot it, setting will never succeed; servance of wheatless days he found
the farmer to whom every horse, dog, the tenants on his own land owned
cat and even the diminutive bantams thirty-six hounds and every owner told
look to, and justly so, as a friend; the him that the dogs would not eat; corn '
farmer who finds pleasure in the reali- bread so he would have to cook wheat
zation that a great part of his mission bread foi- the dogs whether the family
is to feed the world—this type alone ROt any or not. ‘ i
constitutes the Real farmer. Quoted “T believe the dogs in America con-!
by Dr. H. C. Taylor, University of sumc more food thL the pigs, and ft
Wisconsin. , j^st occurs to me that a campaign
_ I that would abolish worthless dogs o’'
put such tax on them as would abolish
thc».n would .save millions of pounds of
* ■ j- ■ , , ourselves and our allies. 1
the American farmer in large de- know this is not anew question to you.
gree will determine the trend of human but if you feel like passing it on
history tor all time to come, because to Mr. Hoover, I know it is a question
the enormous ultimate consequences of vitally afl'eCting consei’vation.”—S. R.
this conflict lest, primarily upon the Winters, News and Observer
larmer s production of food and feed;
to sustain the lighting forces. They | ■ —' /■ . =
might fail even with an adequate food' padm is riT\m » t
supply; without ii they ard certain to j I* AKW I* UnDAriflN 1AL
A • 1 • 1 -p -p X were founded as a nation of
But in his held, far from the furv of i ,'r.
1.. 1 -• - /• tfAT.. 4 , laimcis, and in spite of the great
WHO WILL WIN THE WAR
WHY BOYS LEAVE FARMS
Why did you leave the farm, ni''
lad ?
Why did you bolt and quit vour
dad ?
Why did you beat it off to town
And turn your poor old daddv
down ?
Ihinkers of platform, pulpit, pres:-'
Are wallowing in deep distress;
They seek to know the hidden cause
Why farmer boys desert their paws.
Some say you long to get a taste
Of faster life and social waste; '
Some say you silly little chumps
iUistake.' your suite cards for vour
trumps.
In wagering fresh and gormless air
Against the smoky thoroughfare,
We’re all agreed, thefarm’s the place,
So free your mind and state your
case.”
growth of our industrial life it still
battle, far fi'om either the adventures |
or the horrors of the firing line, the' , ,
American farmer will say whethei au-' wnvie
tocracy or democracy shall rule the
world during the seasons that are to
come. In a sense the war will be won
or lost in the fieids, gardens, orchaids
pastures, and hog lots of the American
farmer.
re.sts upon the farm, that the welfare
■of the whole community depends upon
the welfare of the 'farmer. The
strengthening of counti.'y life is the
strengthening of the whole nation.
Farmers must learn the vital need
“Well, stranger, since you’ve been
so frank ,
I’ll roll aside the hazy bank,
The misty cloud of theories.
And show you where the trouble
lies. ,
I left my dad, his farm, his plow.
Because my calf became his cow!
I Ictt dud, ’tWiis wroiiiT, of coiiry.'^
Because my colt became his horsej’
I left my dad to sow and reap \
Because my lamb became his sheep,
I dropped my hoe and stuck m\-
fork
Because my pig became his pork.
The garden truck that I maile grow.
Twas his to sell but mine-to hoe.
It s not the smoke in the atmos
phere,
Nor the taste for life that brought
' me here. '
Please tell the platform, pulpit,
press.
No fear of toil or love of dress,
Is driving off the farmers’ lads', ’
But just the metho'ls of their dad.s!”
—J. Edward Tufft.
the land smiles where the plowshare
passes.
Grant that I may not be discourag
ed by the petty dealings of those who
traffic in the things I labor to produce.
Lot there be willing hands to gath;er
the riches of autumn; Hands that de
light in the touch of the golden grain,
eyes that glory in the beauty of ripe
fruits;,ears that love the slow tread of
faithful beast.s.
O Father, the promise of the green
earth fills me with peace. Let it be'
my privilege to refresh the weary!
passer with a glimpse of growin’
■things tended by one who loves the
land.
Even so shall 1 add to Thy g;Iory and
ray eternal salvation. Amen.—A. A.
Clark in Farm , and Fireside.
FRANM MANN’S CREED
I believe in a permanent agriculture,
a soil that shall grow richer rather
than poorer from year to year.
WE ARE LEARNING
• Another reason for gro'wing’ corn is
that not only have prices troneskyward but
the South has learned to make corn,
A few years ago we didn't know how
I believe in hundred-bushe'l corn and; therTused^R wil'd hamethods we
in fiftv-bushel wheat, arul T ,.;haii « would hardly have paid us
in fifty-bushel wheat and I shall not, to produce much com at any price But
be satisfied with anything less. | j^st take a look at om S pei acS
I believe that the only good w'eed is, L;+i,L F ®
a dead weed, and that a clean farm is’ - ~ as^compaied with twenty years
a ucau wetfu, aiiu uiai U Clean larm iS; aern 1Q17 oo i -xi MonVr
as important as a clean conscience. 4 ' Paied with 1897:
the future’s best hope. ’ | Cm.+i, p
I believe in the farm woman, and ^ Georgia
will do all in my power to make her'
life easier and happier jAlab^a'
j prepares for oounti-y life, and a coun- TennpcQoo
' try church that teaches its people to
love deeply and live honorably.
I believe in community spirit, a pride
in home and neighbors, and I will d.”'
niy part to make niy own community
the best in the state.
I believe in the farmer, I believe in
farm life, I. believe in the inspiration
of the open country.
Arkansas
Texas
—The Progressive Far
1897
1917
29.5
20.0
19.0
16.0
15.0
12.0
16.0
20.5
28.5
24.0
18.0
11.0
26.4
'mer.
I am proud to be a farmer, and I
t( "
will try earnestly to be worthy of the
name.
The hope of the American citizen,; co-operation with one anotner. Next
not a farmer, also hinges upon ade
quate agricultural production. Our
aeroplanes are useless, our guns are
spiked and our rifles jammed, our
shells arc but as hannless baubles, if,
the farmer fails. This must be under-1
stood in all its grim force by every ■
man, woman, and child in America; |
to this conies co-operation with the
Governniflnt, and the Government can
best give its aid through associations
of farmers rather than through the
individual farmer.
Country life should be as attractive
as city life, and the ' country people
should insist on Raving a full repre
by farmers and by those who are not | sentation when it comes to dealing
farmers.—Clarence Ousley, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture.
THE LIVESTOCK PROBLEM
with all the great public questions. In
other words, country folks should de
mand that they work on equal terms
with city folks in all such matters.
They should have their share in the
membership of commissions and coun-
Estimates published by the U. S. | pBs; in short, in all the organized bod-
Food Adiiiiiiistration show that there! les for laying plans for great enter-
are 115,000,000 fewer meat animals in' pr^es affecting all the people,
the world today than there were in 1 - I am glad to see on such boaies the
the year preceding the beginning- of i names that represent financial inter-
the wlr! While'the ineVa'sT hi“cSttle | fsts, but thosejnterests^ ^should not
in the United States was 7,090,000, the | have the right-of-way, and in all en-
total world decrease was 28,080,000.; terpnses and movements, m which the
Sheep decreased 3,000,000 in the Unit-: social condition of the country is m-
ed States and 54,500,000 in the world.; voived. the agiicultui al counti y the
Hogs have increased 0,275,000 in the ; open country-should be as well repre-
U luted Statjis, but throughout . the'
world their number has decreased 32,-
425,000.
The close of the war will find Europe
almost barren of meat and dairy ani-
sented as the citO.
The man of the open country is a;)i
to have certain qualities which the city
man has not. The two should be ])ut
on equal -terms, and the country tal
iHi UllU Ultui V C4.414 --- - .1 ^ - J. •!
, I contribute to the welfare of the w-orld
H v^ wfubfpioAt by this opportuni-' in which we live.-Tlieodoro Roo..e-
ty w’c must correctly grasp the enor-, •'■eib.
mous world demand for meat, daily j ..
and breeding animals and meat ana
dairy iirodu'cts which must continue fm
many years after peace is proclaimed.
It will take several years^ to surti-
cientlv increase thedierds and , •irnormai £
Amenca, and those of us who have the
right vision will begin at once bung Price levels have mount
about this increase. . ■ ' high., Wage.s have climbed to dizzy
the fp-m. The tide will reverse and
flow' from city to rural regions. Think
it over. Get a vision of the future.—
Toledo Blade. i
GERMANY’S LAST CHANCE
MOFFETT’S CREED
“I believe in work and the joy c
woi'tt I believe in service and tlu .1
of service. I believe in the cere of U;
body, abstemiousness, exercise, for
without health I can do nothing.
I believe in the poiver of will and its
growth by training, in the power oi
Thv
THE FARM 15 SAFE
world is in delirium. The
pv..... ^ , -1 war fever makes.it so. Business is
thiidierus anu flocks of and sub-normal.
Some in-
e at high speed and others
This opportunity is up!' heights in shop,'factory, and furnace.
the bouthem , lured the human moth in-
LiUilL/Cd
_ . . 1 4.1 _ .J 4-t1 On/«— .1. ■—
- The reaction is as sure as
cessful raising of beef anu uaiiy ca„ , nature’s l.Ly that day follows night,
tie. i After the war, what? Will the fev-
If every Southern state woukl i leave -.the patient ' emaciated and
pel the use of the dipping vat arul gcr ,„ •? pity indu.stry be hit ahd^
rid of the tick, the hurt? To large extent—yes. The one
leiTible as the struggle has become
tlierefore, its significance was never
so apparent to all the world as it has
become within the past month. The
German leaders hpve no thought; of
any peace except what they call a
“good German peace,” to be gained as
the rewai'd of a smashing victory over
France and England.
The allies can therefore make no
plans looking toward'peace, excepting
through military action thtit will first
show the world that (1) the Germans
cannot gain their smashing victory or,
the West front this summer, and (2)
that even if further heavy reserve.^
should overtake the allies, there is nn
chance for an accepted and estab
lished peace in a w'orld harmonized
under German dictation.
France, Great Britain, the United
States and Italy are determined to co
operate so completely and so generous
ly at thi,s time as to withstand the de.-'-
perate blow's that are being dealt und
er the direction of the German emper
or and his allies and his militai'y
leaders. If Germany doe.s not achk’v'e
great success within the next three or
four months, she will have lost the
w'ar.
This does not mean that peace w'ouid
assuredly be achieved during the pre.=-
ent year. But it means that through
another w'inter of preparation the niii-
itary and naval resources the enemies
1 of Germany will almost certainly
I'develop and become effective in such a
way as to give all-the advantages
‘ from an aggressive standpoint to till','
natitins that are leagued together for
the overthrow of German power.
The time has come to develop allied
co-t5perabion on a broad scale , and
make every efl'ort count towards the
final solution.—Review of Reviews.
self-control and its growth by train
ing, in the pow'er of love and i.,
growth by training; not love for per
sonal salvation, but love for huraanity
that must abolish proverty and w'ar.
I believe in universal education and
equal opportunity—for men and wom
en alike, I believe in the Christ spirit,
I bow before the Suprejae Creator and
draw strength and comfort from the
ocean of soul-force that surrounds us.
—McClure’s Magazine. ,
LESSON OF THE BIG DITCH
If Asia had a Panama Canal to dig,
she would dig it with picks, hoes, and
spades, and tote out the earth in
buckets. Nothing but human bone
and sinew would be employed, and the
men would be paid little, because wi',1'-
out tools and knowlcdgp they must al
ways earn little.
But America put brains, science,
steam, electi'icity, machin.ery into he''
Big Ditch—tools and knowledge in
•other words, and she pgid good w'ages,
because a man thus equipped does th'
work of ten men whose only force is
tile force of muscle.—Clarence H. Poe.
J. ICl L/X Illy Vi*.*-- , hiffu , 1. (J CA.l>crJ.AU J''-•o» JL
in the way of Qn?Ah ’ industry that is always safe to follow
grow'hig season would make the bo husbandry of the farm. .
' section 01 . hoc v,.,rl ir.s wav
THE FARMER’S PRAYER
the greatest,beef and dairy section o war has had its way tin
the world.—P. G. Holden, International ■ '-^^tions will turn instinctively! listened to.the words of them that have
O Father, I thank Thee that my
forebears were tillers of the soil. Thou
knoivo.st that. 1 have gone down to the
sea in ships; I have followed the shift
ing crowds that cluster around the
night fires of a great city; I have
harvester Co.
DOGLE3S DAYS
to the soil as the source of natural! authority; but nowhere have I found
wealth and prosperity. The fires -of i a place where my heart could be at
manV furnaces will'die out. Countless k, +Bp
^ ’11 X_ ^4-1 c?YYir\L-Ci
chimneys will cease to vomit smoke.
wheatless ^ The makers of machinery and muni
Dogless days as .well_as^w™c-, ^ languish and cease
ml. _ -f O ■4'W'l n TXT": H
days is the suggestion coming i.ui*cx-| farm and fanner will
bert Hoover as relayed S ^ cornerstone upon wnich will be
tary of the Navy Josephus Darnels - be the^conie^
from a in ; of living. The meal-ticket grower wiP.
Winston-Salem.
this letter that the two must be tor- haw a
related so as to guarantee wheatless ligW as _ne ^
days. The Forsyth county tenant men-
front seat, and be in the lime-
fore.
Own the land. Wed the soil. Tie to
ease, save in the orchard paths and
-meadows of my fathers.
O Father, I look not to men desiring
to wrest from them the means where
with to live; I look up to Thee, who
boldest the rains and the sunshine in
the hollow of Thy hand; in Thee do I
trust. Thou hast promised that the
seedtime brings the harvest.
0 Father, give to riie idle and the
hungry eyes to see that the face of
IGMOR.%NCE AND P6VERTY
You prosper just in proportion to
th-2 prosperity of the average rnu;
with whom you are brought into bu ■
ness contact. If the masses of th:
ticopie are poor and' ignorant, every
inrtivid,ual, every interest, every indus
try in the community will feel and
register the pulling down power of
their back-w'ardness as inevitably as the
thermometer records the temperature
of the air. The merchant will have
poorer trade, the doctor and law'yer
smaller fees, the railroad diminished
traffic, the banks smaller deposits, tb
preacher and teacher smaller salaries,
and so on.
Every man who through ignorance,
lack of training, or by reason of an;
other hindering cause, is producing o"-'
OUR DEMOCRATIC ARMY
Democratic! Conscription is a prin
ciple of democracy not a weapon of
autocracy. It is just and democratic
because it plays no favorites, but com
pels every class to bear its share of
the nation's burden. Whether it is a
question of the nation’s man power or
its wealth the principle should be ap
plied the same way.
The government could confiscate all
private property if necessary in order
to win the war, just as it could send
all men to the firing line. It does neith
er, but levies upon the earnings of all
alike to .supply funds, just as it calls
all of certain classes to fill its armies.
The wealth of the country voluntar
ily responded to the nation’s call in the
Liberty Loan campaigns, particularly
the third one, according to this prin
ciple. Wage-earner and capitalist vied
■with one another in buying to the
limit.
For example, 10,182 out of 10,976
employees of the American Sugar Re
fining company purchased nearly
three-fourths of a million dollars
worth of the bonds. In another large
corporation, the Corn Products Refin
ing company, 97 per cent of all em
ployees backed up the government by
the purchase of its bonds.
Democracy does not sfand for the d i-
stniction of wealth, but for the princi
ple that out of its earnings wealth
should pay its proper proportion for
the nation’s defense.
A democratic army, backed by a
unanimous popular response to the na
tion’s financial needs will win the war
for democracy.—Leslie’s.
earning only half as much as he ought
by his inOTiciency is making every
body else in the, community poorer.-
piarence H. Poe.
the time we begin to pick it up, while
still school children, to read, perhaps,
how we are among those -who haven’t
missed a day’s attendance, on until olcl
age has dimmed our eyes, we hav
taken it up each week and have i;
NOT AS THE PHARISEES
Do our soldiers pray ? Certainly aot
as the pharisees of our Lord’s time
prayed, standin.g in public places, to be
seen of men. A shy, sensitive, secret
spirit of reverence has been discovered
in the breast of the soldierst
Just as they have sloughed off inter
est m the petty considerations of
sectarianism and .of conventionality, so
they have taken on a new, deep sense
o| the reality of Gvid and of His provi
dence.
Their very self-abandonment to all
the risks and tasks of war is a prayer.
They feel that they’ are about a worlc
to which God called them, and in -which
He has a great stake, and for which
they may count upon His co-operation.
Their faith is itself a petition. They
offer up their lives as a flaming act of
worship and supplication, as the Ru.s-
siaris offer up candles.—William T.
Elhs.
THE HOME PAPES
The sway of the home paper comes
over us unconsciously. We subscribe
to it to gratify our curiosity as to
what is going on around us. Yet fronp^f. Editor Branch, there came near be"-
In its issue last week the Red
Springs Citizen stated editorially that
the only man in Red Springs who had
not purchased Liberty Bonds or War
Savings Stamps or contributed to the
Re.d Cross was Rev. G. T. Pace. Sat
urday, so the Robesonian is informed,
when Mr. Pace demanded an apology
mg a riot, and the upshot of the affair
was that Mr. Pace was persuaded by
indignant citizens to pledge to buy
$500 worth of War Savings Stamps
and to contribute $25 to the Red Cross,
—The Robesonian.
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bibed, without (appreciating the fact
much more than the neighborhood gos
sip which We thought was practicaliv
all it brought to us.
We have, indeed, absorbed its ideas
on many subjects. We have become
advocates of good roads and good
schools with it; of cleanliness in poh'
tics and of uprightness in business li'f?.
following its imperceptible guidance
and little reckoning that we have not
been leaders ourselves—while in truti'
it has been the despised purveyor of
neighborhood gossip, as we have look
ed upon it, that has led us, and this
although we have even often used its
actual language in learnedly expound
ing our suiiposedly original views.
Thp Morristown, (N. J.) Record.