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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
\Y 26, 1920
CHAPEL HELL, N. C.
VOL VI, NO. 27
trial Board i E. C. Branson. L. B. Wilson, B. W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bullitt.
Batered as second-class matter November 14, 1914, at the Postoffice at Chapel Hill, N» G., under the act of August 24, 1912
HE NEW EDUCATIONAL REVIVAL
THE NEW REVIVAL
e school conference at the State Col-
or Women in Greensboro the other
vas a gri-at event in North Carolina.
5 lias been no greater conference of
sort in this state in a quarter con-
le issue itself was great—it was, Eet-
schools of every grade for all tlie
)le, and a more Htieral investment in
;atiOnal agencies of every kind,
was great enodgli to bring tngetlier a
isand or more people from every
ler of the state—teachers, principals,
)ol sirperintendents, scliool b.oard
aber^, merchants, bankers, lawyers,
ichers, doctors, state school and
rch school presidents and professors,
club women, tlie Kiwanjs and th"
arians—and to weld tliem into asyni-
letic body of public servants, busy
1 tlie problems of cliildliood and
til in North Carolina
Aycoch’s Mantle
1 the various interests represented—
,1, state, and federal -it was very like
great conference for education in the
til at Salem,in Aycock’s day, and tlie
or it developed under the leadersliip
eloquence of Governor Bit^kett, Con-
isman Small, Commissioner Claxtun,
erinteiident Brooks, ex Superintend-
Joyner and the rest, was very like
educational fervor tliat developed ia
state in tlie early eightie.s of the last
tury. .
he Greensboro conference developed
fact that North Carolina is once more
Jte and anxious, and ready lor
ther heroic effort for larger school
mues and better schools. And we
3 to say that the leaders in this new
,ury revival will spring up just as a-
dantly and serve the state just as
antly as the educational leaders in the
quarter of the old century. Out of
t revival came our city graded schools,
;hers’ institutes, public high schools,
summer school at the University, the
nal schools for both races, the State
lege for Women, and the State Col-
;of Agriculture and Engineering. The
of noble leaders in tliat great move-
it is a long one. It includes .\!exau-
Graham, 1). Matt Thompson, Tom-
on, the Blairs, Nnhle and Muses,
ger, Alderman, Mclver and Joyner,
tie and his summer school corps,
le, Primrose, Leazar, Pnllen, \Valter
;e, Josephus Daniels, Massey and Hill,
I many others of their sort.
The Main Issue
'he leaders who stand up to lead today
St be tall men and true if they rank
h the leaders of yesterday. And their
ion must be just as clear. They must
miss the thing that was plainer than
ikestaff at Greensboro, namely, that
rth Carolina is dominantly a rural
te and that the country school is the
•ed wheel in our educational scJieme.
fhe leaders in the great educational
ival just beginning under Brooks’s
dership will plead for many essential
ngs, but above all they must go to the
intry people, on the stump, in every
intry community in the state in a
upaign of blazing appeal for better
intry school* for the country childreu
North Carolina.
Setter country schools! 'Among other
reiicies this is the greatest. It is fun-
mentally necessary. Attention and ef-
•t must ‘be centered on it, or North
rolina will be fatally hindered and
bbled and'crippled as she moves to the
•e in the forward n.arcli of American
ites.
1920, the road projects authorized by the
federal government and the 17-southern
states amounted to $55,000,000 in round
numbers. The total in North Carolina
is around $3,650,000, and only four states
stand ahead of us, namely, Texas, Miss
ouri, Georgia, and Oklahoma, Reducing
road business to definite contract form is
.“low work, as men of sense know, but
our state hiffliway commi.ssion has been
gaited faster tlian the highway authori
ties in 11 oth^r southern states.
Tlie contract figures just given out by
the federal Department of Agriculture
are as follows.
Texas $9,363,021
Missouri 5,435,013
Georgia 4,307,437
Oklahoma 3^690,349
North Carolina 3,648,489
Tennessee 3,623,762
Alabama 3,359,221
Virginia 3,175,062
Kentucky 3,125,892
South Carolina 2,925,174
Mississippi 2,877.266
Arkansas . 2,686,6^2
Louisiana 2,177,868
Florida 1,834,753
West Virginia 1,701,538
Maryland 1,491,607
Delaw’are 260,424
THE PLAYMAKERS
Go aw'ay frorh home to learn the news.
It took a reference in the Red Cross
Magazine, of New York, to call our at
tention to the work that is being done by
the Carolina Playmakers at Chapel Hill,
whose production of IVhen Wib'hes Ride,
a play of North Carolina superstition, is
declared by the magazine to have been
“one of ttie most remarkable productions
of the new development in American folk
art”.
•The Playmakers have a little theater at
Ctiapel Hill, the Play-FIonse, where they
work at dramatic productions based on
mate’rial gathered in North Carolina-
folk lore, traditions, superstitions, of the
Old North State. They make their own
costumes and scenery. It would be rash
to risk a judgment Without having seen
their work; but if it is sincerely and in
telligently done, the possibilities that it
affords seem' well-nigh infinite. This
form of dramatic art at any rate has grown
enormously popular in America recently,
and it is interesting to learn that it is
being e-xperiinented with in North Caro
lina, using North Carolina material for
the framework of its productions.—
Greensboro News.
ROOSEVELT’S RELIGION
Theodore Roosevelt once' said: I
know not how philosophers may ulti
mately define religion, but from Mi-
oah to James it has been defined as
service to one’s fellowman rendered
by following the great rule of justice
and mercy, wi.sdora and righteous
ness.—Kansas Industrialist.
COUNTRY HOME CONVENIENCES
LETTER SERIES No. II
DO'S AND DON'TS ON FARM TELEPHONES
been dead' for some time .but some one
was still drawing his pension.
Another man had his three children on
the list and upon inve-tigation it was
found that one of them had married and
had .'•everal children, another was grown
and making a good salary while the
youngest was large enough to support
himself. They were all stricken from the
list.
Several have attempted to get on the
pauper list who upon investigation were
found not entitled to ^ place there.
Between twenty and thirty soldiers and
sailors have been assisted in securing
compensation, insurance, uniforms, back
paj, allotments, medical treatment, etc.
One soldier was placed in a hospital
and treated free by t'he government.
This gives in a- general way an account
of the work that is being done and shows
the possibilities for good that exist when
full cooperation is given it by all the
people.— Joseph C. Jones, Superinten
dent of Public IVelfare, Franklin county,
N. C.
A telephone company is a public service
utility and as such should sell service. It
can be materially assisted by the cooper
ation of the subscribers. Below are given
a few Do’s and Don’ts which if observed
by all concerned will greatly improve the
service;
Do’s
(1) The telephone is a delicate instru
ment. Treat it as sucli.
(2) Keep the telephone clean inside
and out. Dust and moisture permit
leakage of current and make conversation
over the line less clear.
(3) A good sharp turn to the generator
handle will throw the drop at “Central.”
Nothing is gained by more.
(4) If the phone fails to function, re
port tlie fact to the manager, don’t try
to fix it yourself.
(5) Y)u know your ring, answer it as
quickly as possible—let others alone.
(6) Be patient with “Central,” she is
sometimes busy.
(7) Talk in a clear, distinct tone.
Don’t explode in the transmitter.
(8) Put your mouth about an incli from
the transmitter -when talking.
(9) Hang up the leceiver, with the ear
piece down, as soon as you are through
talking.
Don’ts
(1) Don’t buy cheap phones and ex
pect high-class results.
(2) Do not remove the mouthpiece
from the transmitter. It is carefully ad
justed to feed tlie sound waves to the
transmitter most effectively.
(3) Don’t rubber on the line. Some
one might be talking about you. Besides
“rubbering” ruins the batteries.
(4) Don’t drag your rings. Make them
snappy.
(5) Don’t use the phone in a thunder
storm.
(6) Don’t declare that you have been
“trying for half an hour to get you”
when in fact you have been about five
seconds. Tliere are cases on record
where murder has been committed in
that time.
(7) Don’t get mad and try to take your
spite out on “Central” by ringing in her
ear. You can’t.
(8) Don’t think all the poor service is
due to the company. Some of it may be
due to you.
Vil) Don’t let the wires remain in con
tact witli branches of trees. The only
things that the wires sliould touch are
the glass insulators.—J. E. L.
WIPE our THIS DISGRACE
iMore women die in child birih in the
United States than in thirteen other prin
cipal countries. There are 23,000 of them
every year. And 125,000 babies die be
fore tliey are six weeks old because of
lack of proper care. Tliey die because-
the United States is the only important
country in trie world that has no legisla
tion for mothers.
There is such a bill now before Con
gress—a maternity and infancy bill worihy
of every citizen’s support. Will tlie men
and women wlio read this write to your
Congressman and Senators to support
tills bill? Get up a petition and have
your friends sign it. The Stieppard-Tow-
iier BillTmist be passed.—Good House
keeping.
A GREAT RECORD
North Carolina measured up splendidly
in the number of Distinguished Servi.e
Crosses awarded in the late war. New
York furnished 368,000 troops to the
armies in F’'rance and won 613 D. S. Cross
es. North Carolina furnished 73,000 men
and won 173 D. S. Crosses.
North Carolina stood twenty-first
among the states in the number of men
furnished but seventh in the number of
D. S. C. winners.
The 30th Division, composed of troops
from North and South Carolina, Tennes
see, and ■ tlie District of Columbia, is
credited with an even dozen Medals of
Flonor, the highest award in the gift of
the nation, which is three more than any
other division received; and the 30th also
won 307 D. S. C’s. The next divisions
m order of honors were the 2d, 1st, and
3d.—Rockingham Post Dispatch.
MILLIONS FOR ROADS
During tin- fiscal year ending June 30,
19, the highway projects in 17 southern
itfcs, autliorized and begun by the states
d the federal government jointly,
vered 2,671 miles of good road and the
penditure of $23,393,827, on a basis of
percent by the federal government and
percent by the states. In our own
Re the basis was half and half! During
is period these state and federal road
ntracts called for 255 miles of road in
MthCaroliua and $l,716,100of expen-
tures. It appears that North Carolina
uiped in ahead of 11 southern states in
Renditures and 14 southern states in
ileage.
During the fiscal year ending June 30,
WELFARE IN FRANKLIN
During tlie month there have been he
tween twenty and tiiirty cases handled
by the juvenile court and the Superin
tendent, out of court.
About 90 trips have been made to
schools looking after the attendance and
more than two hundred and fifty letters
written.
One hundred and fifty permits have
been written excusing children tempora
! rily from attending school to help on the
I farm.
I The school attendance has been in
creased about forty per cent over what it
has been before. *
Tlie outside pauper list was given me
to investigate and several were found on
the list who had no riglit to be there.
A man who had been on the list had
RICH IN MOTOR CARS
North Carolina today has 120,000 li
censed motor vehicles and 1,110 dealers.
This is an increase of fifty per cent over
the corresponding period lasL year, in
the number of cars. Of the 120,000 cars
registered, 109,000 are passeiiaer cars
and 10,500 are trucks, while there are
1,650 licensed motorcycles.
Tliese figures show that the State dur
ing the first nine months of the pre.-ent
fiscal year has registered 40,400 more
motor vehicles than were registered dur
ing tlie whole of last year.-
The first automobile licensed in North
Carolina was on Feb. 1, 1909.
GRAHAM AND CHASE
There is a story to tell in the very re
cent past and the very vivid present of
one of the oldest and greatest of the
southern state universities, In fact, in
point of actual service it^is the oldest
state university in existence; in point of
extended service to its state, in the
quality of its faculty, and in its programs
of culture and democracy, who shall find
its superior? The story—constituting
perhaps the most distinctive cliapter in
educational administration in southern
universities—centers around two leaders,
both of the new generation. In these
leaders were common, to a remarkable
degree, the qualities of young manhood,
loyal service, simple living, genuine and
sincere motives, and calm but resolute
purpose.
The one, the lamented and beloved un
iversity president of the yesteryear, leav
ing a remarkable heritage and notable
inspiration, finds his eulogy written by
the President of the United States “as
one by gift and character alike qualified
to play a distingiiished part and playing
it to the admiration of all who knew
him. ’ ’ The other, the president of today
and tomorrow, confident, clear-eyed,
passionately devoted to the ideals and
service of a great state university
dreams of a living rlemocracy and plans
for its realization through better educa
tion and the new citizenship The one,
tlie university’s own son, “giving him
self freely, wliolly, joyously that she
miglit be strong and large and abound in
the noblest life”, sought to make the
state university “the instrument of de
mocracy for realizing all the high and
healthful inspirations of the state,” and
in so doing he interpreted to tlie people
of the state “democracy, culture, effi
cient citizenship guided by a competent
and confident leadership.” The other, a
student of education, for a decade a
teacher in the university itself and a
worker in the state, winning his way by
simple, quiet worth and deserved merit,
dreams of his state university as one
which ‘ ‘typifies and serves and guides this
new civilization” of the South, “an in
stitution shot through with the spirit of
service, broad and quick in its sympa
thies, practical in its training for the
practical things of that life which in its
astounding complexity confronts the new
generation, 'resolutely keeping in the
foreground those spiritual values by
whicli alone a state can survive.” The
one, a southerner of national reputation,
the planter of good seed which will
“grow up and set in motion potential
evolutionary processes that will go on and
on working themselves out in the life of
tlie university and the state,” held de
mocracy to be the “main and active
manifestation” of culture and magnified
“democracy and work” aS the heart of
American civilization, holding at the
sam^ time that, “culture and work” are
the basis of a sound democracy. The
other, a son of the nation, reaping where
another hath sown, loving the South, ex
presses the strong conviction that “the
next great creative c'lapter in the history
of the nation is to be written here in the
South where is now the real center of that
pioneering spirit which has made Amer
ica possible, ” and sets himself to *the
task of aiding in the building of the greater
South through an education which will
add “to individual competency public
mindedness, and' to public-mindedness
an abiding sense of spiritual realities.”
Surely the story, but faintly suggested
here for fuller investigation and study, is
typical of the South's best hopes and of
its highest aspirations for the newer citi
zenship. And who can measure the in
fluence of the university president in this
new day?—Howard AY. Odum, Kenan
•Professor of Sociology Fllect, University
of North Carolina, in-The Survey.
quired in modern surgery was provided.
The Club Clinic brings along everything
that a first class hospital contains. The
two distinguished doctors—Dr. Gibson of
Raleigh, and Dr. Darden of Durham—
and the six regii-tered nurses are as am
ply provided with the tools of their craft
astho they were working in private san
atoria.
The large rooms at the east and west
ends of the school basement were the'
wards, one for the boys and one for the
girls. The clinic had its own cots, mat
tresses, sheets, etc., and every patient
was kept for at least 24 hours so that no
possible danger could result from too
early removal after operation.
Miss Dunn, the chief nurse of the Slate
Health Board, said that a nominal club
charge was made when the parents were
able^ to pay it. But ever} child that
needed treatment received it, pay or no
pay, and several operations were per
formed free of charge in Chapel Hill.
The six nurses were helped materially
by the mothers and sisters of the brave
little patients. The nurses alone, said
Miss Dunn, could not have handled all
the cases.
The State Health Board, through Aliss
Dunn, wishes to thank Air. Morrison and
Aliss Daks, the Chapel Hill Public Flealth
nurse, for their unceasing cooperation.
Aliss Klink of the University Infirmary
lent extra cots and invited overflow pa
tients into tlie Infirmary. The teachers
cooperated by going out after the chil
dren.
The whole experience was a triumph
for the program of the State Health
Board and for the desire of Chapel Hill
to make its schoolhonse int.o a.real com
munity center in every sense otthe word.
The basement of the school was trans
formed. It was as clean, as orderly, as
quiet, and as precisely administered as
an up-to-date hospital.
In the last year more than 1000 such
operations have been performed in North
Carolina without a single casualty.
Chapel Hill is glad to be added to the
list of North Carolina towns whose chil
dren have benefited by the State Health
Board Tonsils clinic.—E. N.
dreams
THE TONSILS CLINIC
An emergency hospital, in which 51
children of Chapel Hill and Drange
county were operated on for tonsils or
adenoids, transformed our city school-
house F'riday and Saturday.
Colored children were treated in a room
specially provided for them.
The domestic science room was the op
erating room. Every device that is re-
HANGING IN THE BALANCE
Western civilization hangs today in the
balance. Every gain that thfe race has
made is threatened with destruction. Cnly
a thin line separates France and England
and Italy from the menace of barbarism.
Upon our Nation may devolve the respon
sibility of keeping the torch aflame. Up
on the trained intelligence, the clarified
insight and the disciplined will of our
people in all likelihood will depend the
fate of the world in the decades that are
to come. First, last, and all the time it
is an educational problem. It is your
problem and my problem; your duty and
my duty. At no time in the history of
our profession has the need for devoted,
consecrated, and united action been so
imperative as it is today. Let us stand
shoulder to shoulder with unbroken ranks
uud see the battle through to glorious
victory.—AY. G. Bagley.
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