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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Volume XXVI. No. 16
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 1917
Price, Five Cents
N.C. CLUB HEARS RURAL
SCHOOL PROBLEM TALK
STATE OFFICIAL ABLY SHOWS
WHY COUNTY SUPERVISION
IS BELOW STANDARD
CITY CONDITIONS MUCH BETTER
County Supervisors Need Assistants
81.4 of School Population is
Rural County Spends 2 'ic, City
14c Out of Every Dollar for Schools
That the country child in North
Carolina is far from enjoying
equality of opportunity with the
city child in having his work ade
quately directed and supervised
was clearly shown by L. C. Brog
den, of Raleigh, State Supervisor
of rural schools, in a discussion
before the regular fortnightly
meeting of the North Carolina
Club Monday night. :
Mr. Brogden emphasized the
fact that the administrative duties
of the county superintendent have
so increased within recent years,
thus giving him less time to visit
his schools, that he is barely even
able to approach real supervision
of the rural schools.
Considering the fact that of the
total school population of the State
the rural school population con
stitutes 81.4 per cent, the speaker
declared that it is the quantity
and quality of work they receive
- that is going to determine in a
large measure the degree of effi
ciency attained by this State in
its material, intellectual, and
moral life.
Taking seven representative
counties in North Carolina as a
basis of comparison of rural and
city school supervision, Mr. Brog
den showed : (1) That each of
the seven "county superintendents
has ' on the average about twice
the number of white teachers to
direct and supervise :as his city
school associate; (2) that each
county superintendent has on the
average 59 per cent less of his
teachers college graduates and 75
per cent more of them teaching
their first term , than has the city
school superintendent; (3) that
each county school superintendent
has a rural school term 33 pei
cent less than that of the jcity
school superintendent ; and (4)
that the average area of the coun
ty superintendent's districts is 571
square miles, while that of the
city school superintendent's dis
trict is only seven square miles.
"Yet, notwithstanding the above
facts," the State Supervisor as
serted, "not one of the seven
county superintendents has a su
pervisor to supplement his work."
: Mr. Brogden further called at
tention to the fact that while the
county is spending less than two
and one-half cents out of each dol
lar of its total school fund for the
direction and supervision of its
country children, each of the seven
cities is, on the average spending
14 cents out of each dollar for its
city children.
Mr. Brogden outlined the work
of the rural school supervisors,
who are devoting practically their
entire time to supervising and di
recting the work through the seven
grades of the elementary schools.
Their chief work is to increase the
efficiency of the teachers already
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Attractive Base Ball
Schedule Under Way
University of Virginia, Easter
Monday ; Washington and Lee,
Tuesday; University of Pennsyl
vania, .Wednesday; Princeton,
Thursday ; University of City of
New York, Friday, and Columbia
University on Saturday is part of
the baseball schedule for this
spring which Manager G. Hold
ing has in the making. Manager
Holding says that he is having
great difficulty in securing games
on account of the unusual condi
tions this year, but hopes to com
plete a representative schedule this
spring.
Asked as to the possibility of
arranging the northern trip as it
was planned, Manager Holding
said that it was doubtful although
he was going to exert every effort
to arrange games with the big
northern universities. If the de
sired games can be secured a Uni
versity of NortA Carol jna team
will be seen in action for two con
secutive days in New York City.
Manager Holding says that he
is now negotiating with some of
the state colleges and near-by
southern universities, with . which
he hopes to fill in some good
games.
At a meeting of the Junior
Class Thursday afternoon the
Commencement Marshalls for
1918 were elected. N. G. Good
ing was elected , chief; Rainey
Cuthbertson, Jim Ficklen, T. P.
Brinn, P. O. Jarvis, Walter Feim
ster, Jeff Bynum . and Luther
Hodges were elected assistants.
The coming basketball game
with Guilford College will be
played at Greensboro.
J. E. Massey, a Freshman at
Carolina last year, has arrived in
France. He has been in the ser
vice but a short time.
LIEUT. S. WHITING, '14
DIES ON NEW YEARS DAY
It was with a feeling of keen
regret that Carolina alumni and
students who knew him, learned
of the death of Lieut. Seymore W.
Whiting, '14, on New Years Day
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Lieut.
Whiting had left New York where
he was successfully engaged in a
law-book writing firm and entered
the second Oglethorpe camp, re
ceiving his commission in Decem
ber. He was later sent to Doug
las, Arizona, to train men of the
National Army, and here it was
that he contracted pneumonia
which brought on his death.
Whole ( in college Whiting had
a part in practically every move
ment and activity on the campus.
He was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, the varsity track team,
Golden Fleece, Sigma Chi, and
editor-in-chief of the 1914 Yack-
ety-Yack, which is commonly ad
mitted to be one of the best ever
issued.
"Original, versatile, capable,
he was characterized by the abil
ity to think straight on a subject."
And this probably is why his sen
ior biographer accounted him the
broadest man in the class.
EPIDEMIC WARNING BY
INFIRMARY PHYSICIAN
DUTY OF STUDENT WHO HAS
COLD TO REPORT AND PRE
VENT SPREAD OF MEASLES
CAUSES OF COLDS ARE OUTLINED
It's the same old story "just
a bit too careless" there are al
ready two serious cases of measles
in the Infirmary and three cases
of Pink-eye. The keynote of
warning was sounded in Chapel
Hill last Tuesday morning when
"Doc" Charlie Mamgum an
nounced that there is at this par
ticular time , considerable danger
of infectious diseases which have
been brought back from holiday
trips. - J
"The two diseases which are to
be particularly guarded against at
this time are, measles and cere
brospinal meningitis, which are
prevalent in the military camps.
To prevent the spread of measles,
it is absolutely necessary to isolate
the patient two or three days be-1
lore he breaks out with the dis
ease. Measles begins like an or
dinary bad cold, and on the fourth
day the rash appears."
Therefore, Dr. Mangum de
clared that it is the duty of every
man, who has not already had
measles, to report promptly to the
college physician if he contracts
what he thinks is a. bad cold. Any
one failing to do so is certainly
willfully sacrificing the well-be
ing of his fellow students to his
own selfishness, and may become
the cause of inflicting upon an
other and better man an illness
which might easily result in his
death. At this time of the vear,
large numbers of men have what
are called "acute colds." If these
receive proper treatment within
the first few hours, they seldom
cause the loss of more than one or
two days. If, however, the man
hangs back and fails to report un
til his illness foices him to, he is
due to be absent from duty from
four to seven days; and he may
not recover his strength and effi
ciency for several weeks.
"The common hygienic errors
which cause colds," Dr. Mangum
continued, "are : overeating, con
stipation, wet or cold feet, living
in over-heated or badly ventilated
rooms, and failing to keep moving
when out of doors on a cold or
damp day." He declared that
any man who is unable to procure
over-shoes should see to it that
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What's to Happen and When
Sunday, January 13. -Sunday
School in all the churches. Dr.
Raper at Methodist at 9 :45 A. M. ;
Dr. L. A. Williams at Presbyte
rian at 10 :00 A. M. on "Jesus,
the Lawyer."
Monday, January 14. Presi
dent Graham in Chapel.
Tuesday, January 15. Exami
nation in Military Science at 10
A. M. Y. M. C. A. meeting in
the Beading Boom of the Y. M.
C. A. 'round the fire, at 6:45 P.
M. Bradshaw, Rondthaler and
Wunsch lead the discussion on
"Examinations."
Wednesday, January 16.
Reign of Terror begins at 10 A. M.
Chapel Hill Shivers Its
Way Through Holidays
The only unusual event in
Chapel Hill during the holidays
was the way in which the mercury
deported itself. About Saturday
before Christmas the mercury
dropped at about 32 ft. per sec
ondfrom above thirty degrees to
below 10 degrees. The ' lowest
temperature recorded . was exactly
zero, or in other words there
wasn't any weather. This is cold
er than Chapel Hill has been in 39
years.
Most everything froze, including
ahe Chemistry building and the
faculty, but this latter body will
be hot after 'the exams ; papers
have been turned in and the cas
ualties recorded.
The Chemistry building was
the worst injured of any. Due to
the bad conditions in one series of
pipes, the circulation of heat was
retarded, causing the pipe to burst
and flood the place. But things
have been patched up and Labs
are still with us.
Practically all of - the, other
buildings on the campus came
from the fracas with small damage
done. The South was the only
dormitory inhabited, all the stay-
at-homes hibernating to that place
during the holidays.
The faculty and citizens and
other inhabitants of Chapel Hill
amused themselves by skating on
the water supply reservoir. For
several days this was securely froz
en over, but finally gave way un
der constant " application of the
principle of gravity. The Tar Heel
has not been able to ascertain who
first discovered the fact , that ice
hasn't the patience of Job and can
even get hot under the collar. But
as a general rule Chapel Hill was
too cold to have much action, and
all evidence points to a very sedate
time spent by those on the Hill
this Christmas.
BULLETIN FOR HIGH SCHOOL
DEBATE IS OFF THE PRESS
The High School Debating Bul
letin, issued by the High School
Debating Union, has just come
from the press, and is now being
forwarded to the 250 high schools
which have entered the Union thus
far. The book is the twenty-sixth
of the extension series and con
tains a comprehensive array of
material on compulsory arbitra
tion of industrial disputes, which
is the subject for discussion in the
various hi gh schools of the state
this year.
E. R. Rankin, secretary of the
Union, has an article in the Bulle
tin, giving the history of the
Union since it was founded in
1912. Then comes an explana
tion of the question in a general
way. There are briefs on both
sides of the question with selected
material covering the briefs. In
the back is a bibliography of books,
pamphlets, documents, and mag
azine articles discussing the ques
tion from every possible point of
view.
In many respects Mr. Rankin
says the recent issue is one of the
most comprehensive bulletins yet
compiled by the committee on the
Debating Union.
EPSILON PHI DELTA MEN
RECEIVE SIGNAL HONORS
CHARTER MEMBERS AWARDED
SILVER MEDALS BY BIG JAP
ANESE NEWSPAPER
ONLY GIVEN TO MEN OF SERVICE
Five Men Receive Unique Symbols of
What the Order is Doing to Bring
Japan and . America Closer Se
cured Thru Nagano
-.
The organizers of Epsilon Phi
Delta, John S. Terry, Kameichi
Kato, II. Earl, Marsh, William M.
York and W. Hermas Stephenson,
have been presented by the Hos
hushinpo J ournal, of Oita, J apan,
the Hyosho medal.
Mr. K. Nagano, a student here,
and a member of the Hoshushinpo
firm, to whom the medals were ad
dressed, on Janaury 10th, at the
regular meeting of Epsilon Phi
Delta, presented the medals, and
read the following letter, which
was written in Japanese and trans
lated by him : . . ' ' .,
Dear Sirs : We are in receipt, of
information from Mr. K. Nagano,
our representative, that you have
organized a Japanese American
study club, the purpose of which
is to study the problems concern
ing Japanese American relations
in order to promote permanent
friendship between the two coun
tries. Inasmuch as your organi
zation is the first, as far as we are
aware, of its kind, and your. in
tention is to extend your organiza
tion over the United States '" and
Japan, we sincerely hope for your
success.!
"With a recommendation by Mr.
Nagano, and as a result of a spec
ial conference according to the
regulations, we wish to present our
Hyosho medal to each of the char
ter members in order to express
that our wish and desire is in per
fect accord with that of yours.
With the best wishes, '
HOSHUSHINPO siio,;
Oita, Japan."
The medal is a beautiful silver
medal, on one side of which is., the
name of the giver, the Hoshu
shinpo, and the word "Ilyo Sho,"
and on the other side is a laurel
crown and inscription.
These medals are awarded in
Japan to citizens who have .ac
complished something for the pub
the medal is awarded the newspa
regarded as examples of good eiti-.
zens in public and private life.
They are not frequently awarded,
and convey great honor to the. wear
er, They are usually presented to
inventors, to philanthropists, to
those of exceptionally good family-
conduct, to those who spend their
fortune for the public welfare, and
sometimes to members of the firm
who have done exceptional service,
but only when ho has been in the
service at least ten years. A pres
entation of these medals is gen-
erally accompanied by much cere
mony, which manifests the sinnii
cance of the occasion. There are
written regulations governing the
presentation of the awards, and
there is a committee which has a
conference and decides whether a
medal should be presented. After
the modal is awarded the newspa
per devotes much space to the ca
reer, conduct, and pictures of the
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