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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Elxtension.
1ST 25,1920
CHAPEL HHX, N. C.
VOL VI, NO. 40
J Board a K. 0. Branson, L, B. Wilson, B. W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bnllltt.
Entered as second-class matter NoTomber 14, 1914, at the Postoffloe at Chapel Hill, N. C., nnder the act of August 24, 1918.
[E SCHOOL OF PUBIC WELFARE
NING FOR SOCIAL WORK
wing the unusually successful
;r Institutes for Public Welfare
;h more than fifty public welfare
ts were enrolled, the University
th Carolina will offer its second
f training for social work begin-
1 September 23rd. This will be
ander the Division of Training for
Work in the School of Public
re, and will constitute the opea-
the regular full-year instruction
continued from this time on.
University ^hrough its School
olic Welfare and its allied Depart-
. will be able to offer unusual ad-
;es and, in some respects, oppor-
lities not found in any other train-
hool for social work. The Univer-
lant, with its libraries, laborato-
)ublic lectures and faculties will
iilable, in addition to the special
!s, lectures, and faculties provided
! School of Public Welfare. In the
• University faculty, for instance,
e available courses in economics,
lerce, psychology, philosophy, ru-
icial science, sociology, education,
•y, government, community music,
lunity drama, health, sanitation,
jy, and other sciences needed.
! courses will be given by men dis-
ished in their respective fields,
as Professors Hamilton, Carroll,
!taff, Koch, Wilson, Bullitt, Bran-
fCnight, Saville, Hobbs, Williams,
fer, Odum, and others,
ewise there will be available for
al lectures, conferences, and di-
>n, the heads of State Departments,
ially Hon. Roland F. Beasley, com- j
oner of Public Welfare, and mem-
of his staff, including Mrs. Clar-
A. Johnson, director of Child Wel-
and Mr. Newman, director of
ty organization; Hon. E. C.
cs, State Superintendent of Public
action, and members of his staff,
ling Mr. W. C. Crosby, secretary
3 Community Service Bureau and
Elizabeth Kelly, in charge of adult
•acy work in the State; Dr. W. S.
in, secretary of the State Board
[ealth; and especially executives
the Southern Division and Nation- |
d Cross, as well as ^specialists in
ational field of social work. I
special interest, however, will be
acuity of the University which is |
alizing for these students of social I
. These include; j
ward W. Odum, Ph. D., Kenan'
issor of Sociology in the Univer-'
ind Director of the School of Pub-'
elfare, who comes to the Univer-
vith training and experience cal-!
ed to give effectiveness to courses
)cial Theory and practical social
ems. Holding the doctorate in'
hology from Clark University and
octorate in Sociology from Colum-
vith several years' of practical ex-
nce in research and promotion
in public education, health and
ties, followed by several years of
ling sociology at the University of
gia and later by administrative
as Dean of Emory University, he
well consider this an ideal field for
ce.
tribution to community work and policy.
Professor Burnett has had peculiar ad
vantages for this work: training in the
New York School for Social Work; res
idence in Greenwich House, New York;
lecturer at the University of Toronto in
the Social Service Department; did pio
neer work in rural districts and log
camps in Canada; member executive
committee National Conference of So
cial Work and was Director of the So
cial Service Department of Public
Health at Toronto. He has made social
surveys and done promotion work in the
earlier days with the Methodist Church.
He is especially adapted in spirit and
enthusiasm for this work.
Jesse F. Steiner, Ph. D., Professor
of Social Technology, comes directly to
the University from National Head
quarters of the American Red Cross,
where he has been, since the creation
of the post. Director of Educational
Service, in which position he has super
vised the training of social workers in
all the Divisions of the National Red
Cross. Prior to this work he was Pro
fessor in the University of Pittsburg,
teaching Social Theory and Practical
Social Problems; was prominent in the
work of directing a number of social
agencies, including social agencies in
Cincinnati and Chicago; he has devoted
a number of years to similar study and
work in the Orient and comes to this
new work with perhaps the best prepa
ration that could be found in this coun
try. He is preparing some special ar
ticles and a text on Education for Social
Work.
MEN TO MAKE A STATE
George Washington Doane
The men, to make a state, are made
by faith.
A man that has no faith is so much
flesh. His heart is a muscle; nothing
more. He has no past, for rever
ence; no future, for reliance. Such
men can never make a state.
There must be faith to look through
clouds and storms up to the sun that
shines as cheerily, on high, as on
creation’s morn. There must be faith
that can afford to sink the present
in the future; and let time go, in its
strong grasp upon eternity. This is the
way that men are made to make a
state.—Masseling’s Ideals of Hero
ism and Patriotism.
COUNTRY HOME CONVENIENCES
LETTER SERIES No. 24
Electric Farm Power from Central Stations-
III
gene Cunningham Branson, Litt.
Cenan Professor of Rural Social
ice in the University, who has pre-
d and directed one of the best,, if
he best, rural life laboratory in the
try. His work in this field has at-
«d national attention and his pub-
ions are used widely throughout
;ountry. He is a member of the
onal Country Life Conference ex-
ive committee, chairman of impor-
committees, and in wide contact
present movements for the study
promotion of country life. AT home,
e State of North Carolina, his Club
ies have become a standard of ex-
nce through which rural sociology
ight and practiced,
thur H. Burnett comes to the
ol of Public Welfare, as Professor
ammunity Organization, from the
don of Secretary of the Public
Ith Federation of Cincinnati, an cr
eation which has, through its eleven
rentjouncils, made distinctive con-
Mary Clarke Burnett, M. A., from
Columbia University, was also a resi
dent at Greenwich House and head
worker for the _ Central Neighborhood
House for three years. She comes di
rectly to the University from the posi
tion of Executive of Social Workers’
Council of the Social Unit Organization
of Cincinnati. This included organiza
tion work among all the social workers
of the District and the giving of lec
tures to Block Workers and to the gen
eral public in Cincinnati, as well as lec
tures on social diagnosis to the nurses
of the Social Unit. Mrs. Burnett will
supervise the Field Work in the School
of Public Welfare and give lectures on
Family case work.
Philip Klein, Ph. D., is Director of
Educational Service in the Southern
Division of the American Red Cross and
holds his doctorate from Columbia Uni
versity and the New York School of So
cial Work. His special work has been
done in the study of prison conditions
and work among prisoners, and he was
assistant secretary of the New York
Prison Commission for six years. He
will cooperate with the School of Pub
lic Welfare to the fullest extent, and
will interpret both the Southern Divis
ion and the National Red Cross cooper
ative measures, and give results of sim
ilar work elsewhere.
Advisory Committeee on Cooperation:
Harry Woodburn Chase, President of
the University; Roland F. Beasley,
Commissioner of Public Welfare of
North Carolina; Howard W. Odum, Di
rector of the School of Public Welfare;
and Philip Klein, Director, Education
and Research, Southern Division, Amer
ican Red Cross.
MAKING HISTORY
get their places; with a new era of school
building that is displacing small, wood
en school houses with modern, commo
dious permanent structures; with a
deep and intelligent interest in rural ed
ucation; with a quickening of the edu
cational impulses all over -the state—
there can be no question that North Ca
rolina is thinking more and demanding
more of education than ever before in
her history.
Add the fact that for the first time
North Carolina is beginning to realize
her material wealth, that she knows
she ranks fourth in the value of her
agricultural products, topped only by
Texas, Illinois, and Iowa, that the
amount she pays in federal taxes is
exceeded by only six states, that she
is buying automobiles at a faster rate
than any state in the union, that she
is rich, rich, rich, and able to do any
thing and get anything she wants—add
this fact to the educational passion that
is sweeping the state and he is blind
who cannot see that the future of North
Carolina rests in the hands of her teach
ers.—University Summer School News.
FARM LIGHTING CONTRACT
We give below a typical simple con
tract which has been used successfully
in supplying farm lighting from central
stations.
BLAZING A TRAIL
Whereas, the , herein
after referred to as the party of the
first part, proposes to construct a trans
mission line for the transmission of
electricity for light, heat and power,
from , to
along the .road, and purposes
to furnish connections with said line to
the various residences, farm and busi
ness places along said line, for the
sum of three hundred dollars, the pay
ment of which shall give to the resi
dence, farm or business owner along
said line the right to connect his resi
dence, farm or business place with said
transmision line and receive electricity
for light, heat or power as long as said
line is in existence, whether maintained
by the or its successors
or assigns, for the rates hereinafter set
out or as shall be otherwise mutually
agreed upon by the parties hereto.
In consideratian of the construction
and maintenance of said transmission
line in accordance with the terms of this
contract, and of the completion thereof
on or before , the undersigned,
hereinafter referred to as the party of
the second part, agrees to pay for the
right to connect his residence, farm or
business place, hereinafter described,
with said transmission line and receive
electreity therefrom for light, heat or
power, the sum of three hundred dollars,
but if said line shall not be completed by
, then this contract to be void
and not binding upon either party.
Upon completion of the transmission
line as hereinbefore described said party
of the first part agrees to furnish a
transformer on said line, at a point in
the public highway on said transmission
line nearest the residence, farm or bus
iness place of the party of the second
part, for the purpose of furnishing elec
tricity, and agrees to furnish electricity
to and through said transformer to par
ty of the second part, single-phase, at
110 or 220 volts, for light, heat and
power at the same rates and charges as
those paid to party of the first part
by users and consumers in the town of
, for the same services ex
cept that the minimum rates charged
for electricity shall. be $4 per month,
where a 3-kw. transformer is used,
which will allow the use of sufficient
lighting for the ordinary farm together
with the electric iron and power up to
0.6 hp. at the same time, or a 3-hp. mo
tor when used alone, or $6 per month
where a transformer is furnished by
party of the first part sufficiently large
to carry a 6-hp. motor, but with said
exception the rates for light, heat and
power shall be the same as those charged
by party of the first part to its pa
trons in the town of
It is agreed and understood that the
party of the second part shall build and
maintain his own line from the trans
former on the transmission line of the
party of the first part, as above de
scribed, to his residence or farm or
business place, and wire his own resi
dence, farm or business place at his
expense; it being understood that this
agreement does not require the party
of the first part to construct or build
any lines or to do any work beyond the
transformer on its own line.
The above is a modification of the as
signment method, the central station
not only furnishing engineering advice
but assuming all responsibility for
building the line, charging the farmer for
it by collecting a connection fee, in this
case $300.
The minimum monthly charge of $4
is probably lower than such service
could profitably be rendered at the
present time. The general opinion seems
to be that a minimum of $6 a month
must be collected if farm line service is
to return any profit to the central sta
tion.-?. H. D.
History is being made in Chapel Hill
this summer. The trail that Dr. How- J
ard Odum and his associates are blazing
in the work of the Public Welfare Insti
tute is a trail that will inevitably widen
into a broad, paved highway along
which all the intelligent social forces of
the country will march. Through keen
ness of perception, desire of service, '
the ability and the passion to prepare
the way, both the University and j
the Red Cross have heard and are anr
swering the clear call from all those '
forces which, in the words of Commis
sioner Beasley, are trying to supplement I
the home, the school, the church, and
the community for the needs of vigor
ous, healthy, wholesome, and more
abundant life. |
It is the beginning of what may be a
complete turnover of educational ideas
and it is being done right here on this
campus. Not only social workers but
educators and broad-minded, thinking
citizens the country over are watching
and will watch more closely in the future
the work of the Public Welfare Insti
tute and of its successor, the School of
Public Welfare of the University. More
power to both of them!—University
Summer School News.
No magician’s eye is needed to see
that an educational revolution is im
pending in North Carolina, the like of
which has never been seen in the South.
With every institution of higher learn
ing in the state chock-a-block with
students so that, as President Chase
said, if they doubled their capacity over
night they could not meet the require
ments of the next few years; with every
summer school so full that hundreds of
students have to be turned away and
the state Department of Education has
to open two new summer schools;with
3,000 graduates from public high schools
in 1920 where five years ago there were
only 800; with 25,000 students in high
schools now and many more trying to
LIGHTING A BONFIRE
There is a city in Michigan whose
citizens once raised a fund of $60,000 to
be spent in what someone has described
as the business of factory grabbing.
The money was so spent, in three years.
It did not bring a single new industry
to the town. When the fund was about
exhausted the organization met to wind
up its affairs. The motion had been
moved and seconded when a leading
citizen arose.
We have spent our money, he said,
and we haven’t a thing to show for it.
This has set me to wondering if we are
not on the wrong track. While we
have been trying to bring factories
here, we have overlooked our own city.
The streets are out of repair. We have
no parks. Our schools, fire and police
departments are a joke. The city
hasn’t enough civic spirit to light a bon
fire. Now, instead of going out of busi
ness, suppose we all chip in to another
fund and spend that money trying to im
prove our home city. Let’s try it for a
year anyway.
His enthusiam prevailed. At the end
of the year the results were such that
the organization financed itself for an
other year, and then a third.
When the third year had run its course
the same leading citizen made another
little speech.
We spent $60,000 to get new facto
ries, he said, and we didn’t get one. We
have spent about the same amount try
ing to see how good a town we could
make of this, and now look at the inven
tory: More than a dozen new industries
have quietly come in and made their
homes here. We have gained 40 per
cent in population. We have good streets,
good schools, several parks, efficient fire
and police protection, and we are all
loudly and proudly telling the rest of the
country that this is the best city on this
continent. We not only believe it, but
we know it, and if called on, we can
prove it.—Municipal Reference Library
Notes, New York.
in the newspaper. It is not the only
pulling force in building circulation. He
likes good advertizing.
The farmer wants a clean, well-print
ed newsy sheet.
The farmer likes to have his news
headed up and featured for easy read
ing as much as the city man.
We have always featured strongly
the work of the County Agent in our
newspaper, believing it to be a splendid
work as well as good news stuff.
The farmer appreciates special sales
days. You do yourself a favor, as well
as your merchants and the farmers,
when you promote special sales days.
The farmer appreciates special atten
tion of any kind.
He sums up his appeal by saying:
There are certain p’s and q’s to the
problem jjf reaching the farmer. The
p’s. I would say, are psychology, pa
tience and persistence. The q’s are
quality, ’quaintance and quest. Give
the farmer the kind of news and adver
tising he needs, cultivate his acquaint
ance, seek his subscription, his farm ad
vertising and his job work with the
same zeal and salesmanship that you do
I the business of your town merchants,
and I verily believe you will find him as
^ loyal and as profitable a patron of your
office as your average merchant.—Wis
consin University Clip Sheet.
WHAT FARMERS WANT
Farmers want a paper, says the In
dependence, Mo., Examiner, to carry
the news in which he is most interested—
the news of the country court, the rural
schools, the country churches and the
farm organizations. Here are some
suggestions made by the editor af this
thriving weekly;
It is important not only to give to the
farmer the kind of paper he wants, but
also to let him know that you are staining
every effort to do it.
News is not all the farmer appreciates
A TOOTHBRUSH
Dr. Hartzell, of Minnesota, recently
declared that clean teeth would mean
the vacating of 20 percent of the hospital
beds now in use. Clean teeth go far
toward preventing indigestion, heart
disease, kidney trouble, brain trouble,
and rheumatism.
Sir William Osier is credited with say
ing: “If I were asked to say whether
more physical deterioration was pro
duced by alcohol than by defective teeth,
I should say, unhesitatingly, defective
teeth.’’-Virginia Rural School Messa
ges.