North Carolina Newspapers

The news m this publica- doa is released for the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Caurolina for its Bureau of Extension. DECEMBER 17, 1919 CHAPEL BILL, N. C. VOL. VI, NO. 6 FOR STUDENTS ONLY In early .lanuary the outlines and bib liographies of the State Keconstruption . Studies of the Nortli Carolina Club at the University will be given to the public in ). bulletin form. The edition will be small. It is meant 'raor students only. It will be sent free of -charge to anybody in North Carolina -wl)0,w'ants it and writes for it. Tlie address file of the University News Lt'tter discloses the fact that real students in North Carolina are by no means con fined to our college campuses. They are widely sr-attered throughout the state, almost every county being represented in •our filps of enquirers. Some counties iiave very considerable bodies of thought ful people who want to know great sub jects in competent fashion. Quite as one might expect, the lawyers and bankers lead the list. Teachers, club women, preachers, and manufacturers come i;ext. The merchants and larmers are least represented. We shall be glad to mail out the State Eeconstruction Studies of the Club until ^he small edition is exhausted. The stud- -ents w'ho want it will need to w^rite prompt ly- d/ CIVIC REFORMS DISCUSSED Heading references on Civic Eeforms, dtate and Local, for the North Carolina Club committee appointed to report to the Club a State Keconstruction Program in this field on May 17 and 31. All the books, bulletins, clippings, etc., are ready at hand in the seminar room of the Uni- "wersity rural social science department. 1. State Studies, (a) Consolidation ot •administrativedepartments; (b) Uniform departmental accounting and reporting; (c) A state purchasing agent; (d) A state budget; (e) Our state primary law; (f) State constabularies; (g) A children’s oode commission, etc. (a) Administrative Consolidation in the Various States, pp 235-301, and 411. Report of the New Amrk Commission on -State Reconstruction, Oct. 10, 1919. Newspaper clippings.— University Committee for a State Police, 7 E. 42nd St., New York. In Tennessee, newspaper clippings. —University rural social science files, Eo. 352.241. (g) A Children’s Code Commission, pp 15 .—The Reconstruction Program of South Carolina, by Hastings H. Hart. Missouri Children’s Code Commission, 1918, pp 231.—Plxecutive Offices, Jeffer son City, Mo. Missouri Children’s Bills. The Survey, June 21, 1919, 112 E. 19th St., N. Y. 2. County Problems, (a) Unified coun ty government under responsible head ship; (b) Uniform county accouming and reporting; (c) Local self-rule; (d) Township incorporation. (a) Local Government in Counties, Towns, and Villages, by John A. Fairlie, pp?4, 91, 108, 112.—The Century Co., New York. The Jungle of County Government, by E. C. Branson.—The N, C. (Jub Year- Book on County Government and County Affairs in North Carolina, pp 7-11. The County, by H. S. Gilbertson, pp 115, 175-80, 251-6.-The National Short Ballot Association, New York. A Plan of Unified County Government, in County Administration, by C. C. Maxey, pp 45-62.—Macmillan Co., N. Y. County Budgets, pp 178-80.—Ibid. IMaking the County Budget, 20 pp.— I , A CAMPUS IDEAL Pldwin A. Alderman I have an ideal for this University. My desire would have it a place where there is always a breath of freedom in tlie air; where a sound and various learning is taught heartily without show or pretense; where the life and teachings of Jesus Christ furnish forth the ideal of right and true manhood; where all classes and conditions and beliefs are welcome and men may rise in earnest striving by the might of merit; where wealth is no prejudice and poverty no shame; where honor able labor, even labor of the hands, is glorified by high purpose and strenu ous desire for the clearer air and the larger view; where there is a will to serve all the high ends of a State struggling up out of ignorance into general power; where men are trained to observe closely, to imagine vividly, to reason accurately, and to have about them some humility' and some toleration; where finally, truth, shin ing patiently like a star, bids us ad vance, and we will not turn aside. ■'.FuraJ social science files. No. 354.1 Administrative Consolidation in Illinois :.and other States, pp 7-30.—Report of the Illinois Committee on State Efficiency and Economy. Administrative Consolidation in State NJovernmento, by A. E. Buck. 28 pp. National Municipal Review, Nov. 1919. How It Works in Idaho, by Gov. U. ■ML Davis.—Ibid. (b) Uniform Departmental Accounting in Michigan.—Act. No. 71, Public Acts ■of Michigan, 1919. (c) A State Purchasing Agent in Mich igan.—Act No. 61, Public Acts of Mich igan, 1919. (d) State Budget Systems, bulletins of *he Massaclmsetts Constitutional Conven tion, 1917-18, pp 51-105. III New York, Report of the New York Reconstruction Commission, Oct. 10, 1919, pp 301-365, 393. Ill Michigan.—Act No. 98, Public Acts of Micliigau, 1919. . lu llfiuoD. The Civil Administra tive Code of Illinois, pp 18-20. In Alabama. Legislative Message -of Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, July 8, 1919, pp 4, 13, 15. Ill South Carolina. Budget Law of 1919.—University rural social science . rm&K, No. 354 9. In Illinois. First Budget Report, (by'Gmar IL Wright, Director of Finance, ..1919. A National Budget,uewspaperclippiugs. —Uiilvorsity rural social science files. No. 353.2. BuJget Making as a Basis for Social Worlc, by Alleu and Blakey.—The Sur March 24, 1919. e) Tiie State Primary Law in North Carolina, chapter 101,. Public Laws of 1915. Discussion of, newspaper clippings. —University rural social science files. No. 324,34. (f) The County, by II. S. Gilbertson, •wp 140.—The National Short Ballot Or- .ijaniKation, New York. Local Government in Counties, Towns, and ViH: ges, by John A. Fairlie, j)p 267 .71, -The Century Co., New York. The I’eniifylvania State Police, Satur- «day Evening Post, Jan. 19, 1918. The World’s Work, Jan. 1918 Why New York Needs a State Police, - Wtstchester Research Bureau, 15 Court St., White Plains, New York. County Budgets and Their Construc tion, by O. G. Cartwright, Director West chester Research Bureau, White Plains New York. (b) North Carolina Club Year-Book on County Government and County Affairs in North Carolina, pp 7-11, 80 92. Local Governments in Counties,Towns, and Villages, by John A. Fairlie, pp 255- 63, 272.—Century Co., N. Y. The County, by H. S. Gilbertson, pp 122, 181, 184-5.—National Short Ballot Association, N. Y. The Illinois Law on Uniform Systems of Accounting and Reporting in County and Other Local Offices.—University ru ral social science files. No. 352.63. County Accounting.—University rural social science files. No. 352.63. (c) Local Self-Rule, Legislation in Be half of. In Nebraska. — University rural social science files, No. 352.6. Report of the Committee on County Government, National Municipal League. —Ibid. The County, by II. S. Gilbertson, pp 146-50. Local Government in Counties, Towns, and Villages, by John A. Fairlie, pp 33- 53, 63, 229. Reforms Needed.- -University rural so cial science files. No. 353.62. Fee and SalarySysteoas, N. C.Club Year Book on County Government and County .Affairs, pp 69-80. The Short Ballot, Gilbertson’s The County, pp 169-70, 181. The Short Ballot in Various States. Bulletins of the Massachusetts Constitu tional Convention, 1917-18, pp 395-413. (d) The North Carolina Township In corporation Law.—Chapter 128, Public Laws of North Carolina, 1917 . North Carolina Club Year-Book on County Government and County Aflairs, pp 41-49. The North Carolina Scheme of Rural Development, by E. C. Branson. -Na tional Social Work Coufeience, 315 Ply mouth Court, Chicago. Edgecombe, AVayne follow with 3 each; Beaufort, Chatham, ('howan, Davidson, Gaston, Lincoln, Madison, Martin, North ampton, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland and A'ancey have each abolished 2 schools for consolidation. P'inally come Alamance, ^ Clay, Craven, Haywood, Hoke, Iredell, ' Itee, Lenoir, Mecklenburg, Pender, Per son, Randolph, Rowan. Sampson, AVake, AVilson, Yadkin, with 1 each. An Object Lesson It is a favorite remark with many op ponents of consolidation that up in the mountain counties we have to have the one-teacher schools and consolidation can not be efl'ected there on account of the mountain roads. A glance over the list of counties where consolidation has been going on gives the answer to this argu ment. How about AA^ilkes with 5, Bun combe ,with 4 and xVvery with 3 schools consolidated with other schools? Yancey, A'adkin, Haywood are generally thought of as mountain counties, but consolida tion is going on in all these. These are banner counties and they will receive rich reward for their wisdom and good sense in establishing more ad equate school facilities for their children. They have clearly and unmistakably point ed the way to an era of progress in our public school development. The twenti eth century has been called The Century of the Child, and nothing shall stand in the way of giving to every child an equal claim with every other to enter into his inborn and constitutional right of a free education.—L. A. AY. BANNER COUNTIES According to the last biennial report of Dr. .loyner, ex-State Superintendent of Public Instruction, forty counties have teen consolidating schools during the past two years. There has not been enough of such consolidation for the best interests of the school children, to be sure, but the figures clearly show that the tide has turned and that we are beginning to realize the neces sity as well as the value of larger school units. Consolidation means doing away with little, inefficient, unorganized schools and the establishment of larger, more ert'ective, well-graded institutions. Pitt County leads the van with 12 schools abolished during the two-year period and thus consolidated with other schools. Burke and Halifax come second with 6 schools each abolished as the result of consolidation. Wilkes comes third with 5, Buncombe next with4,‘;Avery, Bladtn, THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH North Carolina is reaping its first bit ter fruits of the industrial conflict. For many years we have been looking on with complacency as the highly indus trialized North wrestled with the “class struggle” ; but this summer’s happenings in Charlotte, Concord, High Point, Al bemarle, and Winston-Salem bring the struggle to our own doors. Bloodshed in at least three of these thriving indus trial centers argues the seriousness of the issues involved and emphasizes the neces sity of grappling with the problem at once. It will test the bigness and breadth of our leaders, but with a vigorous faith that there is real duty where conflict now appears, w'e shall find the way. A. cour ageous Governor blazed the trail in the suggestive agreement which he secured in the face of a highly sensitive situation of several weeks’ standing in High Point. It sounds like a truce, but it may have in it the germs of a permanent treaty based on mutual respect and thorough-going co-operation. The High Point Agreement The agreement bringing to an end the labor controversy is as follows: In order to bring about a settlement of certain differences between the men who work with their brain and bands and the men who work their brain and money in the manufacturing business of the city of High Point and in order to in sure the future friendly business relations between all parties engaged in such man ufacturing business and to place the same on a basis of enduring peace and prosper ity, the manufacturers and employes of High Point, each acting through the com mittee who signs this paper, hereby con tract and agree, as follows: “1. The manufacturers frankly and in good faith concede that the employes have a right to join any labor union they see fit and the manufacturers pledge that they will not in any way, directly or in directly, discriminate against such em ploye in bis employment or in his treat ment because he may belong to the labor union. “2. Each manufacturer agrees at all times to receive and give careful and con siderate hearing to any duly appointed representative of his employes on any question in wliich such employes may be concerned. “3. The employes frankly and in good faitli concede that every employe has the right to decline to join any labor union and all employes hereby pledge that they will in no way maltreat, offend or be dis courteous to any employe because he does not belong to a labor union; that the purpose of this article and of article 1 is to secure for the manufacturers of the city of High Point the permanent ap plication of the principle of the open shop and this principle must be applied alike to union and non-union men. ‘ ‘4. All parties to this contract believe that in order to build up any business and to develop the character of the men engaged in it a premium should be placed on industry and efficiency, and to this end it is mutually contracted and agreed that paying for piecework and otherwise rewarding the industrious and efficient employes shall in no way be interfered with. I “5. It is believed by all parties to this contract that walkouts and lockouts result in friction and w'aste and impair the ability of the business to properly re ward those who are engaged in it, and that both walkouts and lockouts should he avoided wherever pos*ble. To this end it is agreed by all parties hereto that should sny differences arise between any manufacturer and his employes not spe cifically covered by the foregoing articles then a serious and conscientious effort must be made by the management -and the employes to adjust such differences, and if this should prove to be impossible, then such differences shall be submitted to a board of arbitration composed of one man to be named by the employes and one man to be named by the manufac turers, each of whom shall have been a resident of the city of High Point for a period of two years at the time of his ap pointment, and if these two cannot agree, tliey shall elect a third disinterested party, who, at the time of his selection 'hall have been a resident of the city of High Point for a period of two years, and in event the first two men cannot agree on the third party, then the governor of of the state of North Carolina shall ap point the third party, subject to the same residential and disinterested limitations. That the employes of the manufacturers of the city of High Point shall not go on strike in sympathy with any outside or ganization or be subject to orders from parties who have not been living and maintaining, a residence in the city of High Point for a period of two years. “6. That under the above conditions the manufacturers agree that the factories shall be leopened on the 17th of Septem ber, 1919. All employes agree to return to work on a basis of 55 hours constitut ing a week’s work, and that hourly wages shall be paid on this basis. “7. It being herein and hereby dis tinctly understood and agreed that the agreement shall not be understood as any sort or kind of collective bargaining with either agents, committees or representa tives of union labor. ” The task is not finished, and no finer opportunity ever offered itself to thinking North Carolinians to lay aside-all preju dice and narrow self-interest and come to the task of constructive statesmanship in industry.—D. D. C. committee and the state directors. ‘ ‘This sum does not represent by any means the complete or final report,” said Secretary Coate.s. ‘‘The campaign will be pushed vigorously through the month of December and from preliminary re ports and the ultimate success of the campaign, we expect to have S>150,000by January 1.” Present at the meeting in Chapel Hiil were representatives from the committee of the trustees, which consists of Gov ernor Bickett, George Stevens, Leslie AYeil, Afictor S. Bryant, and Clem (i. AYright, together with many of the state directors, including C. F. Harvey, of Kinston, A. II. London, of Pittsboro, C. AY. Tillett, of Charlotte, K. S. Tanner, . of Rutherfordton, J. A. Gray, Jr., of AVinston-Salem, Judge H. B. Stevens, of Asheville, J. AY. Umstead, of Greens boro, P. FI. Gwynn, .of Leaksville, AV. S. Roberson, of Chapel Hill, D. K. Mc Rae, of Laurinburg, Cameron McRae, of Concord, P. II. Gwynn, Jr , of Reids- ville, and J. Ah Price, of Madison. These directors were entertained at a banquet given by the University, at which J. A. Gray, Jr., acted as toast master. Individual reports were made' by the directors, results were announced and final plans laid for pushing the cam paign through its last stages. The di rectors expressed themselves as immense ly pleased with the progress. Particular attention was paid to the plan adopted by the Charlotte alumni, who are raising an average of $100 for each alumnus. Out of the first sixty-five alumni in Charlotte who -w'ere approach ed with this proposition, sixty agreed to to the plan. The success appealed to di rectors from other parts of the state who are trying to reach every alumnus. • ‘The contributions of the student body last year still represent a higher average than the gifts of the alumni,” said Sec retary Coates. “The feat of raising $20,- 000 in one night on the campus is the most remarkable financial phenomenon the University has ever known and was the finest testimony of the spirit in which the students held President Graham.”— Lenoir Chambers. THE CALL FOR EDUCATION Another year of educational work has started. Overcrowded schools, record- breaking enrollments in both high schools and colleges, are evidence of the fact that the call for education is being given great er consideration this year than ever be fore. The check that had been placed on college work because of the war, now has loosened and the work bursts forth with vigor and interest. Do the young people that have entered high school and college for the first time this year, fully appreciate the importance of the step they have taken? 'The call for educated people during this recon struction period, m all lines of human endeavor and especially agricultural lines, is greater tlian it ever was before. AVith the coming of farmers’ organizations and cooperative agricultural business, the need for level-headed and broad-minded men, agriculturally reared and agriculturally trained, increases. AA^ith the introduc tion of rural credit systems and the neces sity of better rural banking facilities, the call for men trained in banking with an agricultural viewpoint is apparent. The development of agricultural depart- ments in the high schools affords splendid I opportunities for young men-with agricul- ^ tural training to become rural community leaders. The growing demand for county I agricultural advisers, official cow-testers, research men, boys’ and girls’ club direct- j ors, and last, but not least, the need for r trained young men and women in farm ing, make the future secure for the young i people of obtaining a higher education.— 1 Indiana Farmers’ Guide. THE GRAHAM MEMORIAL The sum of $104,000 has been raised thus far by the Graham Memorial Fund Committee of the University of North Carolina toward the contemplated stu dents’ activities building at the University in memory of the late President, Edward Kidder Graham. This announcement was made today by Albert M. Coates, secretary of the committee, following a meeting in Chapel Hill of the central VOCATIONAL CULTURE AVhile it is now generally conceded that I vocational subjects have an importanti place in the high school program of stud-1 ies, it is becoming clearer day by day that’ we should consider even agricultural sub jects from a standpoint not too narrowly! vocational. To be sure, in agriculture! we want to arouse the interest of boys in! the every day problems of the farm and! make them meaningful, but the teacher j who aims to provide only such knowledge! and skill as may be cashed in at the bank,I without leaving them ■with a broader vis-r ion of life on the farm, and in the com-i munity, and of the possibilities for real! satisfaction in country life, is hitting shori of the mark. That is to say, weshouhj organize and present our subject matteJ in such a way that it will function beyonri what is ordinarily considered its vocation! al value. Agricultural subject matter iJ now so comprehensive and rich that therJ is plenty of opportunity for the teacher til Use his resourcefulness in arousing intel! lectual interests, creating new needs, anJ inciting to efforts toward improving com! munity conditions. Let us keep in minJ tliat ‘ ‘The development of the boy is thi end point and that subject matter is ^1 means.”—L. E. Cook, in the N. 0. A cational Education Monthly.