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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
OCTOBER 8, 1919
CHAPEL HnX, N. C.
VOL. V, NO, 46
Bditorisl Board i B. 0. Branson, L. R. Wilson, E. W. Knight, D. D Carroll, .1. B. Bullitt.
Entered as second«olass matter November 14,1914, at the
Postofflce at Chapel Hill, N# C., under the act of August 24,1912.
SOCIAL WELFARE BOOHS
Listed from the library of the depart
ment of Eural Social Science at the
University of Nortli Carolina. They will
(be loaned upon post card application to
Jthe University Bureau of Extension:
Kirkpatrick’s Fundamentals of Sociol
ogy.—Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston.
Morse’s Fear God ifi Your Own Village.
'SL30 net.—Henry Holt and Co., New
York.
Towne’a Social Problems.—The Mac-
amillan Go., New York.
Parmelee’s Poverty and Social Progress.
$2.00.—The Macmillan Co., New York.
Devine’s Social Forces.—Charities Pub
lication Committee, 105 E. 22d St., New
York.
Hunter’s Poverty.—The Macmillan Co.,
New York.
Devine’s Misery and Its Causes. $1,25
net.-^Tbe,Macmillan Co., New York.
Colcord’s Broken Homes. 75c net.—
Russell Sage Foundation, 130 East 22nd
■St., New York.
Folks’ The Care of Destitute, Neglected,
and Delinquent Children.—The Macmil
lan Oo.,New York.
Mangold’s Problems of Child Welfare.
—^The Macmillan Co., New York.
Elsom and Trilling’s Social Games.
$1.75 net.—J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila
delphia.
Child Welfare in North Carolina.—
National Child Labor Committee, 105 E.
22nd St., New York. $1.00.
Slingerland’s Child Placing in Families,
$2.00.—^I^ussell Sage Foundation, 130 E.
22nd St., New York.
Smith’s Our Neighborhood: Good
Citizenship in Rural Communities.—John
H. Winston Co., Chicago.
Wines’ Punishment and Reformation—
A Study of the Penitentiary .System. $2.50.
—Thos. Y. Crowell Co., N. Y.
WELFARE BULLETINS
The following welfare bulletins are se
lected from tli^ library of the department
-of Rural Social Science in the University
of North Carolina. Most of them can be
had upon request free of charge as indica
ted:
Bradley and Williamson’s Rural Child
ren in Selected Counties of North Carolina.
—U. S. Children’s Bureau, Washington,
D. C.
Lumsden’s Rural Sanitation (including
Orange County, N. C.), Public Health
Bulletin No. 94.—U. S. Public Health
Service, Washington, D. C.
Sogial Survey of Clay Center, Kansas.—
University of Kansas Extension Bureau,
Lawience, Kansas.
A Rural Social Survey of Orange Town
ship, Blackhawk County, Iowa. —State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Ames, Iowa.
Treadway and Lundberg’s Mental De
fect in a Rural Community, Bui-eau Pub-
licationNo. 48.—U. S. Children’s Bureau
Washington, D. C.
Stimulating Public Interest in the
Feeble-Minded: How it was done in New
Jersey. Also, The Treatment of Feeble
Mind.—Committee on Provision for the
P’eeble-Minded, 501 Empire ■ Building,
Philadelphia.
Byington’s What Social Workers
Should Know About Their Own Commu
nities, Publication C. 0. 7.—Russell Sage
Foundation, 130 E. 22nd St., New York.
Aronovici’s Knowing One’s Own Com
munity, Bulletin No. 20.—Department
of Social and Public Service, American
Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon St.,
iBoston.
Morgan’s Mobilizing the Rural Com-
rmunity, Extension Bulletin 23.—Massa
chusetts Agricultural College, Amherst,
IMassachueetts.
Jackson’s A Community Center and
How to Organize It, Bulletin 1918, No.
.11.—U. S. Bureau of Education, Wash
ington, D. C.
The Community Institute, Extension
Bulletin, Serial No. 551, General Series
No. 377, University of Wisconsin, Madi
son, Wisconsin.
Galpin’s Rural Social Centers in Wis
consin, Bulletin 234.—Agricultural Ex
periment Station of the University, Mad
ison, Wisconsin.
Preston’s The Community Center,
.Bulletin No. 20.—State Department of
Education, Olympia, Washington.
Hanifan’s Suggestions and Programs
for Community Social Meetings at Rural
Schoolhouses. — M. P. Shawkey, State
(School Superintendent, Charleston, W.
Virginia.
COUNTRY HOME COMFORTS
A brief list of bulletins selected from
the library of Rural Social Science, Uni
versity of North Carolina. Most or all of
them can be had" free on post card re
quest, as indicated.
1. Low Cost Water Works,reprint from
The Country Gentleman, July 11, 1914.—
President Joe Cook, Hattiesburg, Miss.
2. Water Supply, Plumbing, and Sew
age Disposal for Country Homes.—U. S.
Agricultural Department Bulletin No. 57.
3. Water Systems for Farm Homes, by
George M. Warren.—Farmers’ Bulletin
No. 941, IT*. S. Department of Agriculture.
4. Farm Sanitation Number, by Dr.
Herman M. Biggs, New York State
Health News, Albany, N. Y.
5. Sanitation in the South, Extension
Leaflet, Vol. 2 No. 9.—University of N.
Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
6. Clean Water and How to Get it on
the Farm, by Robert W. Trullinger.—
Reprint from the 1914 Yearbook of the
Federal Department of Agriculture.
7. The Hutchinson Steel Overshot
Water Wheel and Pump for Rural Homes.
— Prof. T. F. Hickerson, University of
N. C., Chapel Hill, N. C.
8. Hygiene of Rural Homes, Circular
No. 100.—State Board of Health, Augus
ta, Maine.
9. Rural Methods of Waste Disposal,
by Henry D. Evans.—Bulletin 11, 1-2,
State Department of Health, Augusta,
Maine.
10. Modern Conveniences for Rural
Homes, by ElminaT. Wilson.—Farmers’
Bulletin No. 270, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
11. The Sanitary Privy. —N. C. State
Public Health Bulletin, July 1919, State
Health Board, Raleigh, N. C.
12. Rural Sanitation, Public Health
Bulletin No. 94.—U.S. Public Health
Service, Washington, D. C.
13. Electric Light and Power from
Small Streams.—A. M. Daniels, Division
Rural Engineering, Bureau of Public
Roads, Yearbook of the U.S. Agricultur
al Department 1918.
14. Practical Talks on Farm Engineer
ing, R. P. Clarkson. $1.20 net.—Double
day. Page and Co., N. Y.
A PERMANENT COUNCIL
The State and County Council, which
has been in session at the University of
North Carolina, Sept. 15-19, was attended
by more than three hundred officials and
their volunteer allies from 76 counties.
Described by Governor Bickett, who pre
sided, as destined to prove of inestimable
value to the State, the Council, in res
ponse to a widely voiced demand, has
been made a permanent institution, and
a committee was appointed by the Gov
ernor to make plans for next year’s meet
ing. This committee consists of Dr. E.
C. Branson, Chairman, A. T. Allen, Mrs.
Clarence A. Johnson, W. C. Jones, and
Dr. F. M. Register.
Problems of public education, public
health, taxation, highways, and public
welfare, most of which have arisen be
cause of the new public welfare laws and
the new officials charged with carrying
them into effect, were thrashed out dur
ing four days of discussions. After each
speaker the meeting was thrown open and
questions were asked, views exchanged,
and experiences described.
Governor Bickett, in addition to pre
siding at most of the discussions, explain
ed the revaluation act and made a plea
for support for it. “An act to make the
tax books of North Carolina speak the
truth”, was the title he gave the law.
“North Carolinians have never told the
truth about their taxes because they have
never been allowed to’ ’, the Governor
said, “but they are telling the truth now,
and the moral effect will be tremendous.
Under this revaluation act and the pro
posed income tax North Carolina will be
able to take notable strides in public
welfare’ ’.
A Welfare Organization.
The system of procedure in the new j u-
venile courts was thoroughly explained
by Judge Charles N. Feidelson, of the
Children’s Court of Savannah, by R. F.
Beasley, Secretary State Board of Public
Welfare, by Mrs. Clarence A. Johnson,
Director of the Child Welfare Division of
the State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare, and by A. S. McFarlane, County
Superintendent of Public Welfare in For
syth County, a pioneer in this work in
North Carolina. The largest individual
A WELFARE CREED
Richard Morse
We believe that true religion is a
matter cf purpose.
We believe that the purpose of Jesus
was to bring in what He called the
Kingdom of God, the time when all
men shall live together as brothers in
justice, righteousness, love, and un
selfish service.
We believe that the object of the
Christian Church in general is to fur
ther this purpose in the world, and the
object of the church in this commu
nity is to further this purpose in this
community and in this state in every
possible way.
This church offers you therefore a
religion of cooperation. If you want
to serve your fellow men come put
your shoulder beside ours in this com
munity.
We will begin in practical ways to
make this community clean and hap
py and democratic. We will work
with our school teachers, we will work
with our county officials, we will work
with every man who wants our help
in any undertaking for the public
good.
We believe in our fellow men, be
lieve that the good in them is stronger
than the bad, that they are filled with
infinite capacity for service, that if we
give them faith and fellowship and
hope they will give us faith and fellow
ship and hope in return, that there is
no barrier to selfishness or greed or
sin but faith and persistence, and that
the Golden Rule will at last break
down all human barriers.
This religion we offer you as the re
ligion of democracy.—Fear God in
Your Own Village.
New Welfare TasHs
There are more than a hundred juve
nile court judges in the state, all of whom
will be called upon to apply the modern
principles of salvage and discipline to
children in need of special care. As many
as possible of them will be on hand to
hear the subject discussed by people who
know and to ask the scores of direct ques
tions that puzzle them. The same is true
of the one hundred county superintend
ents of public welfare, upon whose good
judgment, knowledge and devotion the
success of the juvenile courts depend, as
well as the enforcement of the compulso
ry school attendance law.
There is important new health legisla
tion which will be gone over thoroughly.
There are the many problems relating to
county government, new school laws,
new road laws, and the vastly important
new tax laws.
Every one of these depends upon the
mutual work of county and state offi
cials. Here for the first time in the his
tory of North Carolina, county and state
officials will come together as such and
in mass to advise, counsel, learn each
other’s difficulties and ascertain what can
be done for mutual helpfulness. Not on
ly this, but it will put these people in
close touch with the University and out
of the first council others are certain to
follow and eventually to give large ex
pansion to various forms of university ex
tension work.
It is to be a locking up and a tying to
gether of workers and forces for ground
work development in the state, and the
people of the state are to be congratulat
ed upon its conception and its certain
success.—News and Observer.
grotip at the Council was the County Sup
erintendents of Public Welfare, and they
perfected an organization of their own by
electing R. F. Beasley President, A. S.
McFarlane, Vice-President, and Mrs.
Blanche B. Carr, Secretary and Treasurer.
Hon. Frank Page, Chairman of the
State Highway Commission, told the
Council that 87 trucks had already been
received from the Federal Government
for road building purposes, and there
would be available a total of $1,500,0C0
worth of road building machinery from
the Federal Government.
With the exception of Wake county,
from which 28 State officials alone attend
ed the Council, Durham, Guilford, and
Perquimans, led in attendance in the
order named. All but four of the land
locked mountain counties had represen
tatives present, and the Piedmont section
of the State was almost solidly represent
ed.—Lenoir Chambers.
A HISTORY-MAKING EVENT
The News and Observer is informed
that the activ^e interest of a public spirited
citizen of the state made possible the in
auguration of the State and County Coun
cil which meets at the State University to
night. This gentleman’s concern in the
matter grew out of his interest in the new
spirit for public welfare work throughout
the state and his desire to see the Uni
versity put its plant and resources at the
service of the new work.
' There is great need for this gathering
together of local and state officials to con
fer and get that better understanding and
enthusiasm that can come only from rub
bing elbows together. But there is even
yet a bigger side to it. That is the fact that
we have come to the time in North Caro
lina when such a thing is possible. The
several hundred people who will gather
there are charged with carrying into ef
fect a great mass of well conceived and
highly constructive and enlightened legis
lation, and the council will be made the
means of fixing public attention upon
this work, illuminating it in the public
mind and impressing upon all the impor
tant fact that we are undertaking to con
struct wisely and permanently and co-op
eratively in North Carolina. Not only
will the council illumine the various sub
jects and laws to the officials themselves,
but it will have the same influence on tl e
public mind.
A SOUTHERN RACE-PROGRAM
Recognizing that the Negro is a perma
nent and increasingly important factor
in the development of our national life,
Tlie Southern Sociological Congress con
siders the solution of the problem of race
relations as the most delicate and diffi
cult single task for American Democracy.
AVe believe that no enduring basis of
good-will between the white and colored
peoples of this country can be developed
except on the fundamental principles of
justice, cooperation, and racial integrity.
The obligations of this generation to pos
terity demand that we exert our utmost
endeavor to preserve the purity of our
democratic ideals expressed in the Amer
ican Constitution as well as the purity of
the blood of both races. With this be
lief the Southern Sociological Congress
has worked out a program for the im
provement of race relations, and we re
spectfully submit it to the Conference of
Governors in the earnest hope that this
body of distinguished leaders may lend
its powerful influence toward making this
program effective throughout the Lffiion.
The report to the conference of Gover
nors in Salt Lake City was presented by
Bishop Theodore D. Bratton, president
of the Southern Sociological Congress,
and Dr. J. E. McCulloch, the secretary.
The Program
1. The Negro should be liberated from
the blighting fear of injustice and mob
violence. To this end it is imperatively
urgent that lynching be prevented
(1) By the enlistment of Negroes them
selves in preventing crimes that provoke
mob violence.
(2) By prompt trial and speedy execu
tion of persons guilty of heinous crimes.
(3) By legislation that will make it
unnecessary for a woman who has been
assaulted to appear in court to testify
publicly.
(4) By legislation that will give the
governor authority to dismiss a sheriff'
for failure to protect a prisoner in his
charge.
2. The citizenship rights of the Negro
should be safeguarded, particularly
(1) By securing proper traveling ac
commodations.
(2) By providing better housing condi
tions and preventing extortionate rents.
(3) By providing adequate educational
and recreational facilities.
3. Closer cooperation between white
and colored citizens should be promoted,
without encouraging any violation of
race integrity
(1) By organizing local committees,
both white and colored, in as many com
munities as possible for the consideration
of inter-racial problems.
(2) By the employment of Negro physi
cians, nurses, and policemen as far as
practicable in work for sanitation, public
health, and law enforcement among their
own people.
(3) By enlisting all agencies possib’e in
fostering justice, good-will and kindli
ness in all individual dealings of the
members of one race with members of the
other.
(4) By the appointment of a standing
committee by the governor of each state
for the purpose of making a careful study
of the causes underlying race friction
with the view of recommending proper
means for their removal.
RAVAGES OF FIRE
Think of it! The loss of lives by fires
in North Carolina since January 1, 1919,
has averaged about two a day, and if this
ratio is kept up will total during the pres
ent year 600 to 700, practically two a day.
Who will fail to join in redoubled effort
against fires and their losses in lives and
property?
Bear in mind that North Carolina is
still, in spite of the fact that much prog
ress has been made in fire prevention, los
ing $4,000,000 each year—$11,000 each
day—in property that should be conserv
ed. And that at least three-fourths of this
loss is due to ignorance and carelessness;
principally carelessness, that must be
stopped if we are to meet the problems
and difficulties of the reconstruction pe
riod.—N. C. Insurance Department.
QUICK BRAGS ON US
Few states have a general agricultural
industry in better or sounder condition
than the Carolinas and Georgia, and few
have made better progress in recent years.
In these states the people are proud of
their comfortable and attractive farm
homes, their schools and churches, their
growing mileage of good roads.
They should not forget, however, that
the good name of the states, as is also the
case with Florida, will in the future rest
on the proper development at economi
cally acceptable prices of the coastal lands
some of which are fundamentally excel
lent and some poor.—Herbert Quick, in
The Country Gentleman.
OWN-A-COW CAMPAIGN
Bankers are cooperating with the agri
cultural agent in Jefferson Davis Parish,
La., in an “own-a-cow” campaign. The
bankers are financing the farmers, and
the agent is preaching the gospel of bet
ter live stock. In the fall of 1918 he
bought five carloads, 160 head, including
5 registered bulls, of pure-bred Holateins
from Wisconsin. These dairy animals
were widely distributed among the farm
ers, one or two head going to each owner.
So pleased have been the owners of these
pure-breds that the agent is already tak
ing orders from others. It is probable
that several additional carloads of such
cattle will be purchased next fall, the
agent reports, together with about 200
pure-bred calves for members of the boys’
calf club. The bankers and the school
board will back the proposition to help
the boys get a start in cattle 'raising.—
I'. S. Department of Agriculture, News
Service.
KEEP AN EYE ON CAROLINA
Judge Charles N. Feidelson returned
to Savannah yesterday morning from a
trip which took him to the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he
delivered two addresses to the State and
County Council on the Practical Work of
the Juvenile Court and Probation.
He found, he said, a particularly fine
spirit stirring in North (Carolina, which,
having attained a rank next to Massa
chusetts in textile manufacturing and
next to Michigan in furniture manufac
turing, is now giving its mind to social
thinking, to a consideration of methods
for improving the general life. This
trend, he thought, is largely due to the
guidance of the university which has
extended its service far beyond its own
w'alls.
“This organization,” said Judge Fei
delson, ‘ ‘seeks to bring into close re
lationship state departments and county
officials, and plans in this way to weave
the various social agencies into an effect
ive unit for the improvement of the com
mon life of the state. Gov. Bickett pre
sided; the heads of the departments of
health, education, public welfare, high
way improvement, were present; there
w’as a large representation from the count
ies—school men, commissioners, proba
tion officers, and judges of juvenile courts.
At the last meeting of the North Caroli
na legislature a tremendous amount of
advanced social legislation was enacted.
I was impressed by the earnestness and
enthusiam which marked the meeting,
and I observed with admiration the atti
tude of Gov. Bickett, a rarely open-
minded official, eloquent, and statesman
like in his outlook.
“Keep your eye on North Carolina-'
Thej have grown very rich there, and
now they are turning their wealth to a
development of human values.”—Savan
nah Morning News.
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