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H The news m this publica tion is released lor the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolina for its Bureau of Extension. ' NOVEMBER 5, 1919 CHAPEL HHX, N. C. VOL. V, NO. 50 ggiori«l Boiu-d j K. C. Branson, L, R. Wilson, E. W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bullitt. Entered as second-class matter November 14, 1914, at the Postoffloe at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912. THE CAROLINA CLUB PROGRAM RECONSTRUCTION STUDIES 'Xbe work of the North Carolina Club at the State University will this year fol low the lead of the State Keconstrnction O0®mission and its committees. To tiiis end, IfheCiub hopes to establisli a work ing relationship with the Commission. On Monday night October 27 the club •will ■elect an unofficial ineiuber of the State Keeonstruction Commission and, at a ssubseqnciit int''ting, a member of each Commission committee. These -are the sncii who, if opportunity is offered, will Siring hack to the Club from time to time the uifldoin of the Commission and the (CoMinaission committees. The Club members tlms honored ought 'to be the pick of the club membership, and doubtless they will be. Each Club committee chairman will •choose-his cabinet of conferees, lay out •the committee woiff, Iioid committee meetings at will, and pass on to tlie Club ■on Btated schedule dates such committee findings as the committee tiiinks are fun damentally necessary to progress under the new brder of things in North Carolina. Each committee is set to the task of fpuzzling out and stating What is. What ought to be, and AVhat possibly might be -in Nortli Carolina. It goes without saying that no proposal, policy, or plan will be effective unless it appeals to the common sense and the •common aspirations of the common man in the commonwealth. Suggested Club Program The work of the Nortii Carolina Club as a whole in 1919-20 will be spent upon hammering out A State Keconstruction Program that will evidence a decent re spect for the opinions of mankind. This document will be finally fashioned for ■Club approval, by tlie Collaboration com mittee, after the reports and findings of the various club committees are rendered as per the adopted schedule. It will be the subject of the final Club session in early June, 1920. The next few issues of tlie University News Letter will carry a bibliography of books, bulletins, reports, clippings, and the like, arranged according to the schedule adopted for committee investigations and findings. The suggested Club Program for the year — the committees, the fields of com mittee investigation, and the dates of committee hearings by the Club — is as follows; 1. October 27.—The State Reconstruc tion flommission and the North Carolina ■Club. Tlie election of a Club member as an unoliicial member of tlie State- Com- 2. November 10. — Education. lj Public school support and policies, •covering elementary schools, liigh schools, technical schools, and schools of liberal arts. (2) Illiteracy and near-illiteracy, (a) tlie facts and their significance, (b) pol icies and methods of attack. (3) Vocational education, for farm, factory, and urban populations: (a) Sur vey of our needs, (b) vocational educa tional agencies, activities, and results in North Carolina, (c) the special import ance of farm vocational education and the necessity for country teacheragea, ■d) conclusions. 4) Teaclier training: (a) The necessi- ■ty for increased agencies and facilities, •b) policies and plans. 3. November 24. — Public Health. (1) County health departments, whole- ■-time healtli officers, and public health nurses. (2) County or county-group hospitals public) and why. (3) Healtli and sanitation as required ^subjects in all schools receiving state aid. t4) Wholesome recreation, town and ■country, and 'Wliy. 4. December 8. — Transportation and I *Communication. (1) State highway policies. k- ^ (2) Motor truck fr eight.lines, country parcel post routes, and inter-urban elec- :^tric railways. ! (3) Our railroad situation and its dis- I . advantages; freight rate problems and ^ solutions. - (4) Country telephone systems; num ber and locations in North Carolina; University aid in country telephone de- ‘l’®';' velopment. 5. January 12. — Home and Faim "Ownership. 1) The facts and their fundajnen'al significance, as related to robust person ality, family integrity, responsible citizen ship, industrial stability, and democracy under law and order. (2) Country liome conveniences and comforts; University aid. (3) A progressive land tax (a) with low- rates on improvements, liiglier rates on land, and still higher rates on land held out of productive use for speculative rises in value, (b) with exemptions or low rates on small properties while occupied and operated or used by the owners, as in New Zealand and elsewhere. 6. January 26. — Race Relationships. (1) The program of the Southern So ciological Conference and the Congress of Governors. j • (2) Tlie program of the Federal Coun cil of the Churches of Christ in America. (3) Tlie program of the National Asso ciation for Negro Advancement. 7. February 9. — Public AVeifare. (1) Cliild welfare in North Carolina: (a) Legislation, agencies, and activities at present^ (b) Conditions of success, (c) Further needs — in legislation, in reform school facilities for wayward boys and girls of botli races, in child-placing agen- cies adequately supported, properly offi cered and functioned, (d) Mothers’ pen sions wisely conditioned. (2) Cliild delinquency, town and country; the juvenile court, probation problems, detention liomes, etc. •(3) Volunteer social allies, the neces sity for tliese in multiplied number. 8. February 23.—Public Welfare. (1) Jail conditions, abuses, and reme dies; abolition of county chain gangs, etc. (2) The state-farm plan of dealing with convicted misdemeanants, as in In diana. (3) Penitentiary policies: (a) road building, farming, and other productive work by penitentiary convicts, under state supervision and for state purposes only, (b) reasonable compensation for the. same in behalf of the convict’s dependent family, (c) emphasis on the indetermi nate sentence and the parole, (d) voca tional schooling, etc. 9. Marcli 8.—Public AVeifare. (1) Mill village problems: (a) the labor turnover, the facts, causes, and remedies, (b)thrift and home ownersliip, (c) health conditions in homes and fac tories, (d) safety devices, working men’s compensation, insurance, etc., (e) play ground outfits, public-health nurses, hos pital facilities, kindergartens, creches, etc. (2) Ciiild labor; (a) tlio facts in North Carolina; the laws, state and fede ral; conclusions, (b) compulsory educa tion, eft'ective vocational mill village schools—a type of education never yet worked out in southern Inill villages. (3) Care of defectives—insane, feeble minded, blind, deaf and dumb. 10. Marcli 29'.— Organized Business and Life. . Corporate Organization. Problems con fronting capital; (1) labor unrest—caus es, extent, and intensity, (2) labor un ions, lalior demands, strike settlements in Charlotte, High Point, Albemarle, and elsewhere, (3) the National Indus trial Conference in W’asliington, (4) the way out, state and national, (5) govern ment ownership of public utilities, (6) private ownership, development, and operation of small water powers for com munity and domestic uses. 11. April 19.—Organized Business and Life. Co-operative Organization—a new form of business organization sanctioned by law: (1) distinctive characteristics; origin, forms, extent at present; conditions op posed to rapid development in America; significance and outlook; (2) co-opera tive credit unions in North Carolina, which leads the Union, and why; co-op erative production and distribution un der state law and supervision, as, for in stance, the state cotton warehouse system; (3) declaration of principles, policies, and plans. 12. May 3.—Social Organization and Life. (1) Social organization—collective vol unteer efibrt for community self-expres sion, self-direction, self-protection, cul ture, recreation, and the like—clubs of all sorts, community houses, law and or der leagues, etc.; or to confer common benefits, as associated cluarities, public welfare allies, school betterment associa tions, etc.: (a) relatively numerous and active in our towns and cities; almost non-existent in our rural regions among WHAT ABOUT IT? Our 250,000 disabled soldiers? Our 800,000 drafted men who were pronounced unfit for service? Tlie 200,.000 people wlio die annual ly in America of tuberculosis? The 25,000 cases of pronounced tu berculosis in North Carolina? The 300,000 children under five years of age in America who die year by year of preventable diseases? And the 10,600 in North Carolina? The 12 million American school children who suffer from various phy sical ailments, most of them curable? The accidents that kill 100,000 and disalile 500,000 people every year in this country? The one adult in every seven wlio is known to be in need of medical atten tion? The 500,000 who are doomed to death in the next wave of Spanish in fluenza? And the 10,000 in North Carolina? The need for wholesale home train ing in bed-side nursing and sick room dietetics? The need for free municipal and county hospitals in every county? County health departments? And county public health nurses? AVhat about it? AA'hat is the answer in North Caro lina?—E. C. B. some 18 hundred thousand people, and why; (b) the ills of social insulation and the cure; (c) the social significance of community fairs, county schopi com mencements and the like; (d) the social unit plan of democratic development, as in Cincinnati; (e) other remedial agen cies and measures. (2) Civic organization: (a) the city, a stupendous modern phenomenon; cre ative causes and conseijuent ills; (b) the rapid urbanization of North Carolina, the facts, the causes, the relation to, de veloping industrial life, social stability, law and order, (c) commission govern ment, tlie city-manager plan, tlie short ballot, etc.; (d) the problems of family in tegrity, community healtli and whole some recreation, and so on. 13. May 17.—Civic Reforms, State and Local. (1) A budget bureau and an ejiecutive budget, as in South Carolina, A'irginia, and other states. (2) A state purcliasing agent, as in ■Micliigan and other states. (3) Uniform departmental and insti tutional accounting, as in Michigan and other states. (4) The consolidation of state boards, bureaus, and commissions, as in Illinois and Massachusetts. (5) Our State Primary laws. (6) ’ A state constabulary, as in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York. 14. May 31.—Civic Reforms, State and Local. (1) Unified county government under responsible headship; county budgets. (2) Uniform county accounting and reporting, ^ in Ohio, Michigan, and other states. (3) Tlie state-wide auditing of county accounts, as a bureau of the state auditor’s office, as imOhio, Michigan, and other states. (4) A definitive extension of local self-rule, under state conditions, regula tions, and supervision—something new in any state. (5) Our township incorporation law, and our community organization bureau; policies and plans, etc. 15. June 4.—The State Reconstruction Program of the Club, reported by the Collaboration Committee, for club dis cussion and adoption. READING REFERENCES The bibliography of selected books, bulletins, and reports on Reconstruction, assembled in the seminar room of the de partment tif rural social science at tlie University of North Carolina, for the use of the North Carolina Club in its 1919-20 work upon A State Reconstruction Pro gram. Reconstruction Reports Alabama, The Social Problems of, by Hastings H. Hart, at the request of Gov. Charles Henderson. 87 pp.—Tlie Sage Foundation, 130 E. 22 St., N. Y. Legislative Message of Gov. Thos. E. Kilby, July 8, 1919. 24 pp. —Ijegislative Document No. 7. Florida, A Social AA'elfare Program, by Hastings H. Hart and Clarence A. Ston- aker, at the request of Gov. Sidney J. Catts. 96 typewritten pp. (Out of print). —Tlie Sage Foundation, 112 E. 22 St., N. Y. Kentucky, The Social Problems of. 120 pp.—Kentucky State Council of Defense, Inter-Southern Building, Louisville, Ky. Mississippi, The Social Progress of, by Hastings H. Hart lin preparation).— The Russell Sage Foundation, N. Y. South Carolina, A Social Program for, by Hastings H. Hart, at tlie request of Gov. Richard I. Manning. 61 pp.—The Rus.sell Sage Foundation, N. Y. Illinois, Report of the Efficiency and Economy Committee, John A. Fairiie, Director, Urbana, 111. 1051 pp. The Civil xAdministrative Code, compiled by Louis lx. Emerson, Secretary of State, Springfield, 111. 37 pp. Indiana, Report of the Reconstruction and ReadjustniPiit Conference.—The Ex ecutive Gliainiier, Itidiimapolis. New York, Reports 'if the State Recon struction Commission: 1, Governor Smith’s Message of Appointment, 2, Re port on Americanization, 3, on Military Training for Boys, 4, on The Rural Mo tor Express, 5, on State Employment-Bu reaus, 6, on Public Health [in prepara tion).—The Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y. Massachusetts, two volumes ot reports on Reconstruction and Readjustment, for the recent Constitutional Convention. -^Executive Office, Boston, Mass. Michigan, Report of the State Recon struction Commission, Stuart H. Perry, Adrian, Midi., Chairman. 26 pp. West Virginia, A Suggested Social Pro gram, by Hastings H. Hart and CHreuce A. Stonaker. 24 pp.—The Sage Founda tion, N. Y. Wisconsin, Report on Reconstruction by a special Legislative Committee, Roy P. Wilcox, Cliairman. 30 pp. Execu tive Office, Madison, Wis. by Theron Freese. —Sociological Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Higli School Sociology Teaching, Dis cussion Outlines, by Ross L. Finney, Uni versity of Minne.sota, Minneapolis. Social Studies in Secondary Education, by Arthur W. Dunn. — Federal Educa- cation Bureau Bulletin No. 28, 1916, Washington, D. C. Lessons in Community and National Life, series B and A for High School grades by Judd and Marshall. —Federal Educa tion Bureau Bulletin, Washington, D. 0. (c) Technical Schools — Agricultural. American Agricultural Colleges, by Chester D. Jarvis. — Federal Education Bureau Bulletin No. 29, 1918, Washing ton, D. 0. Agricultural Education, 1916-18, by C. H. Lane. — Federal Education Bureau Bulletin, 'I9l8, No. 4. Gillette’s Constructive Rural Sociology, pp. 256-60. — Sturgis and Walton Co., New York. Agricultural Education, Fourth Annu al Report of the Carnegie Foundation, pp. 97-107. (d) Schools of Liberal Arts. State University Plants and Support.— University News Letter, Vol. V, Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12. State Universities and State Colleges, statistics for 1917-18. — Federal Educa tion Bureau Bulletin, 1918, No. 51. Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Resour ces and Standards, by Samuel Paul Capen. —Federal Education Bureau Bulletin No. 30, 1918. Colleges in War Time and After, by Paul Rexford Kolbe. 313 pp. —D. Apple- ton and Co., New York. A Social Science School, Public Wel fare courses in the University of North Carolina. — University News Letter, Vol. V, Nos.^ 6, 28, 44, and 47. 2. Illiteracy and Near-Illiteracy. a. The facts and their significance. University News Letter. —Vol. V, Nos, 14, 15, 20, and 25. Draft Illiteracy in North Carolina.— University Rural Social Science files. No. 375.93. Adult Illiteracy, by Winthrop Talbot. —Federal Bureau Bulletin, 1916, No. 35. Adult Illiteracy in North Carolina and Plans for Elimination (1915).—State Su perintendent of Public Instruction. Illiteracy, Distribution in Georgia, by Roland M. Harper.—Georgia High School Quarterly, Vol. VII, pp. 254-262. Increasing Illiteracy Among Adult Whites in South Carolina, a Laboratory study by Harold D. Burgess.—University CJrtTx-k-*-* y»yv EDUCATION STUDIES November 10,1919 Sources of Information, numbered and lettered to correspond with the Study Outlines of the Club — a plan that will be followeil throughout the bibliography sections for special committee studies. (1) Public Education Support, policies, etc. (a) Public Scliool Expenditures per pupil in the U. S. — University News Letter, Vol, V, No. 25. Six Millions for'Scliools in North Car olina. — Dr. E. C. Brooks. File No. 371. 21, University Rural Social Science Li brary. Apportionment of School Funds in the United States, Digest of Laws. —AViscon- sin Legislative Reference Library. Manual of Educational Legislation. — Federal Education Bureau Bulletin No. 4, 1919. Report of the Virginia Educational Commission. — File No. 338.02, Univer sity Rural,Social Science Library. Educational Study of Alabama. —Fed eral Educational Bureau Bulletin No. 41, 1919. A Study of the Rural Schools of Texas, University Extension Series, Bulletin No. 62, Oct., 1914. Beginning and Developing a Rural School. — University of Texas, Bulletin No. 1729, May 1917. The Reconstructed School, by Francis B. Pearson. — McClurg Publishing Co., Chicago. Outline of Social Studies for Elementa ry Schools, by John M. Gillette. — Re print from American Journal of Sociology, Jan. 1914. Lessons in Community and National Life, series C for Upper Elementary class es, by Judd and Marshall. — Federal Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. (b) Secondary Schools. Principles of Secondary Education, by Alexander Inglis, pp. 741. — Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Needed Changes in Secondary Educa tion, by Eliot and Nelson.—Federal Edu cation Bureau, Bulletin No. 10, 1916. Cardinal Principles of Secondary Edu cation, Preliminary report of the Com mittee of the National Educational Asso ciation. —Federal Education Bureau Bul letin No. 35, 1918. , '• Sociology Teaching in High Schools, Rural Social Science Files. Illiteracy in Alabama, AVhere and Why, by Roland M. Harper.—Montgom ery Advertiser, June 1, 1919. Community Schools, a Plan of Attack upon Illiteracy in North Carolina, by Miss Elizabeth Kelly, State Education Department, Raleigh, N. 0. (3) Vocational Education. Vocational Education, by Wm. T. Bawden.—Federal Education Bureau Bulletin, 1919, No. 25. Vocational Guidance and the Public Schools, by Wm. Carson Ryan, Jr.— Federal Education Bureau Bulletin, 1918, No. 2L Training Teachers of Vocational Agri culture, Bulletin No. 27, Agriculture se ries No. 5.—Federal Vocational Educa tion Board, Washington, D. C. Enrollment of Vocational Students by States, Appropriations, 1917-18, etc. — The Vocational Summary, AVasliington, D. C-, May 1919, pp. 12-14. ’ Vocational Personnel in North Caro lina, on Sept. 21, 1919.—University Ru ral Social Science files, No. 374.67. Also tlie Agricultural Education Alonthly, Raleigh, Oct. 1919. File No. 374.67. Vocational Education in North Caro lina, Bulletin No. 1, Dec. 12, 1917.— State Vocational Education Board, Ral eigh. Teaching A'ocational Agriculture in Secondary Schools, by T. E. Browne.— State College Record, Vol. 17, No. 6. Federal Aid for Vocational Education in North Carolina, Bulletin No. II, Dec. 1, 1918. —State Vocational Education Board, Raleigli. Teaching Agriculture, Home Econom ics, and Manual Training in the 6th Grade, Agricultural Bulletin No. 6.— State Board of Education, Raleigh. Vocational Bulletins of the Texas State Board, Austin: (a) Federal Aid to, (b) A Year’s AVork in General Agriculture, (c) A Year’s AVork in Vocational Agri culture-Animal Production, (d) First Annual Report. County Teacherages. Teachers’ Cottages, witli reading refer ences, by R. S. Kellogg. 57 pp.—Na tional Lumber Manufacturers’ xissocia- tion, Chicago, 111. Newspaper clippings.—File No. 371.61, University Rural Social Science Depart ment. Carolina Teaclierages.—The University News Letter, Vol. Ill, No. 23. (4) Teacher Training. Rural-Teacher preparation in County Training Schools and High Schools, by H. J. Foght, Bulletin, 1917, No. 31.—Fed eral Education Bureau, AA’ashington, D.C. More Normal Schools in North Caro lina, by R. H. AVright. Newspaper clip ping, University Rural Social Science, File No. 371.6. Plan for Training Newly Enlisted Pub lic School Teachers in North Carolina, by Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, Raleigh. (The Bibliography of Reconstruction to be completed in the next few issues.)