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The news in this publica tion is released for the press on die date indicated below. ^mE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolina for its Bureau of Extension. NOVEMBER 3,1915 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. VOL. I, NO. 50 gjitorial Boardi B.C. Branson, J. G. deR, Hamilton, L. B, Wilson, L. A. Williams, R. H. Thornton. NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES 1912 A SMALL DAIRY HOUSE The Federal Farmers’ Bulletin No. 689 is a four' page exhibit of a small dairy liouae, simple, practical, convenient and sanitary. It contains illustrations working plans. Write for it. and raising pork at A PROFIT Tlie October bulletin sent out by the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Hills boro on Kaising Pork at a Profit is good reading for our farmers. Strange to say, we are steadily falling behind in pork production in middle and western North Carolina. The eastern counties are now leading the State in this particular. In the entire State in 1910, only 26 counties were raising pork enough for home consumption; all of them eastern coiintie.s. and a quarter has given to the world 22 ministers, 33 teachers, six of them col lege professors, 2 foreign missionaries, 7 doctors, and 2 lawyers. The church now has 212 members, comfortably housed in a $10,000 building. The church surveys show that country churches served by resident ministers are growing in members, power anil influence as a rule; and also that country churches served by absentee-preachers with once- a-week sermons are marking time, dead or dying, as a rule. GETTING BUSY IN ALABAMA AND GEORGIA There are 1,177 dipping vats now in use in nine tick-infested comities of Ala bama; and 456,500 cattle were dipped in three counties during the single month of August. As a rule, tick eradication talk sounds like nonsense to farmers, until the boll weevil gets into a cotton tf^rritory; and then they learn rapidly, as most of us learn, under the prick and spur of hard necessity. The boll weevil has moved over into 31 counties of Georgia this year; but far bet- than usual the farmers of south-w'est Georgia are prepared for this calamity. SOME FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA An illustrated lecture on Some Fishes of the North Carolina Coast was given to tlie 219th meeting of the Elisha Mitchell Society on Oct. 6th by Dr. H. V. Wilson, a national authority on fishes and sponges. The officers for the new year are James B. Bulhtt, president; T. F. Hickerson, vice-president; J. E. Smith, secretary and treasurer. The editors of the Elisha Mitchell Jour nal are,W. C. Coker, Collier Cobb, and M. H. Stacy. ALL TOGETHER F>om all over the state comes news to the effect that farmers, school men, farm wives, county demonstration agents, and all live citizens are getting together to learn and study rural conditions. The work of farm life schools is more popular than ever. Dairy schools are being estab lished. Catawba county is to organize a community improvement club at Star- town. Gaston county is establishing a Domestic Science course at the Belmont school. It is all together for a solid and united communitv service. A BRAVE ADVENTURE AVe heard the other day of a young Ulan in the twenties just starting to get a school education. He gave up a high good, well established business and sold out in order to attend a high school. When a young North Carolinian gets a vision of the. years to come and realizej the fields of useful endeavor lying open before him, there is a girding up of the loins, and a squaring of the shoulders, in an eager, straight forward endeavor to enter into the inheritance. Success awaits this young man as it does any other who forgeta the things which are behind and presses forward to the prize of the high calling w'hich is be fore, MECKLENBURG LEADS There are seven country churches w'ith resident country pastors in Mecklenburg county. If Mecklenburg does not lead in 18 particular, what county does? The church at Sardis is 125 years old, during tliese long years has had only we pastors. Rev. R. G. Miller is ^ 2Sth year of service. Wliat is a resident country just Worth to a community? In minister answer we THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH The figures given by Mr. John Skelton Williams, the Federal ('oniptroller of Currency, before the Kentucky Bankers’ Association the other day, stagger the im agination. The w'ealth of the United States, said he, is estimated at 210 billion dollars, a total nearly as great as the combined wealth of France, Germany and the whole British Empire. The gold of the United States, he went on to say, is more than two billion dol lars. Our bank deposits ha\'e increased at an average of a billion dollars a year for the last fifteen years. At no time in recorded history have the banks of any country held such resources as the banks of this country hold today. EDUCATION, EMANCIPA- TION, CONSECRATION Dr. Henry Van DyKe Education is more than a drawing out or developing process. It is a progressive creation of the soul, and consists of three great branches: In struction, emancipation which means the ability to think and feel forjoneself, and consecration which may be de fined as a sense of duty plus concen tration. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 49 ay say that Sardis during this century SPEAKING OF BILLIONS If w'e talk about wealth nowadays, the wealth of North Carolina say, we nmst talk in billions. And how much is a bil lion doUars? Expert clerks in the Treasury at Wash ington count 4,000 silver dollars an hour. At this rate, working eight hours a day every working day of the year, it would take an expert 102 years to Comit half of our wealth in North Carolina. And 204 years to comit it all—a little detail that the orphan’s fund committee would have us remember when we say our prayers on Thanksgiving Day. THE ORPHAN’S CRY Messrs. Shipman, Moore, McNairy and Johnson are appealing to the people of North Carolina through the press of the state for the children in our orphan asy lums. They call for a day’s wage from every man, woman and child in the state, as a Thanksgiving offering; and surely they will not call in vain. Our savings account in the banks of the state is $2,779,000 more this year than last. The crops we are now harvesting are worth $7.6,000,000 more than the crops of six years ago. Our total wealth ill North (Carolina three years ago reach ed the grand total of nearly two billion dollars. Surely we cannot remember these things and rejoice in them on Thanksgiving Day and forget the 2400 children in our 27 or|)- hanages in North Carolina! The prayers that reach our orphan asy lums in baskets and hampers will count far more than the prayers of the unco guid that vanish into thin air on Thanks giving Day. HELP FOR WILSON Supt. Charles L. Coon appeals to the citizens of W'ilson for help in conducting the moonlight schools. Two schoolhouses are to be used as the place of meeting and a third house is to be rented particu larly for the purpose. The Junior Order has agreed to help with a contribution of $100. The teachers and others are to render free service for the work. A\'ilson is getting after illiteracy with a ven geance. STARTING RIGHT The County Board of Education in Gaston has started right with its Farm- life School by purchasing an excellent twenty-eight acre tract to be used as a demonstration farm for the county. The principal of the school will live on siter HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES Some time ago, Andrew D. Wliite, at one time president of Cornell University, and later our ambassador to Germany, was quoted by the New York papers as saying: “Human life is so cheap in the United ?5tates that men and women may be mur dered almost \rith impunity. It js safer to kill a man in this state than a deer in the forest. | “Twenty-five years ago there were about 1,500 homicides yearly; there are now 8,000 a year. j “Canada has about three homicides per nnllion of population; Germany less than five; England, Scotland and Wales, about ten; France, about fourteen; Belgium, about sixteen; and the United States nineteen." | How cheap is human life in the United States and in North Carolina? Our Bad Eminence Mr. J. H. Lassiter of Northampton county, a member of tlie North Carohna Club, is hunting down answers to these difficult questions. t’ensus figures for 1913 upon homicide cover only the 24 statjis of the registration area, and only 63,298,000 of our popu lation. In North Carolina, they cover only the population dwelling in 64 to^s having a thousand or more inhabitants, and in 1910 a total population of 354,259 or less than a sixth of our entire population at that time. Our bad eminence is largely due to the fact that the homicide rates in the 1913 census \'olume of Mortality Statistics do not cover the 1^669,000 people in North Carolina who dwell in the open country, outside all incorporated towns of any size whatsoever; and to the further fact that negroes are nearly a third, 31.6 per cent, of our population. Nearly four-fifths, 79 per cent, of the homicides in North Car olina, reported in the 1913 census, were committed by negroes. In Kentucky negroes are only 11.8 i>er cent of the population, but they commit 46 per cent of the homicides. In Vir ginia they are 32.6 ]ier cent of the popu lation but tliey couunit 65 per cent of the honucides. Big Bulh Totals and Amazing Increases The total of homicides in the 24 states of the registration area in 1913 was 4,567. The number in the whole United States at this rate would be 7,,215. In the registration area the increase in four years, 1910-13 inclusive, was 43 per cent. The homicide rate per million of population rose during the period from 59 to 72. In 1885, the homicides in the entire United States (Chicago Tribune count) numbered 1,808; in 1906 they numbered 9,350, an increase, of 417 per cent in twenty-two years; i.)ut the legal execution of murderers fell from 6 per cent to 1 1-3 per cent during these 22 years. Where North Carolina Stands One hundred and seventy-eight homi cide cases came to trial in North Carolina | in the fall court of 1910 and the spring j court of 1911. In 1913-14, the number of homicide cases was 268. Here is an increase of 50 per cent in four years. Tli6 homicide rate rose from 80 to 114 per million of population; against an average rate of 72 per million in the 24 states of the registration area. Here is the best showing that Mr. Las- has been able to make for North A REAL REWARD If a teacher’s promotion is not to be reckoned by the change of position nor yet by the increase in salary, what shall be the criterion? Tlie answer is perfectly plain. A teacher's promotion comes in the increased worth to any given commu.® nity. True Worth That is not a very tangible reward, someone may say. True, in that it rep resents no particular material thi ng. But to the real teacher there is a real delight in securing the confidence of pupils and par ents so that they look to the s(thool for counsel and direction in theiridaily life.jEv- ery teacher who has so won a way into the life of a community that her or his school has become a sourt^e of strength and pow er for community betterment has receiv ed the very highest kind of promotion. A Necessary Condition In order for such a thing to come about continued and sustained effort is neces sary. The perij)atetic teacher can not receive this trae type of promotion. For such a reward to be possible teachers must abide long and intimately with a commu nity. They must ally themselves closely with all the community activities, they must make of themsel ves leaders in every good and perfect work. There is bound to be ofle.i a lack of appreciation, a sur plus of difficult and obstinate situations. These are the materials from which real teachers are made. Teacliers must stick to a community if they' would have the comnuinity stick by them. VANCE IS COMING The citizen.-, of Vance county are de termined to care properly for the educa tion of their children. They have recently voted in Middleburg special tax district for the establishment of a farm-life schod in connection with the good school al ready there. Such schools miglit well be called Ivnapp schools for they are tJie life and immor talization of Dr. Seaman Knapp. He knew the future of North Carolina lay in de veloping her agricultural resources. This, if anything surely, it is the privilege of these farm-life schools to do. WELL CONCEIVED The way in which the school men are using the county papers for arousing pub lic interest in education is very encourag ing. Superintendent A. B. Stalvey of Rox- boro, Person eoiinty urges the patrons of the school to co-operate v\ ith him in se curing attendance at the school. He uses the Roxboro Courier as the medium. His plea is from the heart and his argiunent is sound. His methoil of reaching the school patrons is worthy much imitation. A HAPPY THOUGHT The Belmont Abbey C^ollege sends to us froiu time to time, The Belmout Review, a magazine of the student body and facul ty. We read it with much interest and pleasure. We find it h elps us to believe in the future of the human race. It helps to clear away cobwebs from our brain and it often sends us back to our work With (_iur mouth corners turned up. By the way, should the corner's of a man’s mouth turn up or down? get into the courts. Even in England nearly a third of the cases of manslaugh ter, known to the police from year to year, never come to trial. Nobody knows the number of homicide cases that fail to get upon court records hi North Carolina. Facts Worth Knowing Homicide rates are generally lower in the country than in the towns and cities. They are higher in the country regions of only four states—Colorado, Cali fornia, Montana, and Utah. Honucide rates, urban and rural, are excessi\ e in the threi'Southern states of the registration area, due largely to excessive homicide among the negroes, as above noted. , Eight of tlie ten states with excessive urban homicide rates have capital punish ment for first degree murder. Three of them have state-wide prohibition laws. All told, 24 states of the Union retain capital punishment for first degree mur der ; five of these are registration states. Six of the ten states with the lowest rates of urban homicide have capital pun ishment laws; and one of them, Maine, has a state-wile prohibition law, F"ive states show decreases in urban homicide rates since 1910—Utah, Colora do, Washington, Rhode Island, and New .Jersey; and five show decreases in rural rates—Montana, Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. Mr. Lassiter for the present is consider ing the amount and distrilnition of homi cides. The exhibit for North Carohna, county by county, will appear in a later issue of the University News I.«tter. He is moving from facts to causes—a large undertaking, in this subject. the farm and demonstrate how a high class living can be made from soil wdien given proper cultivation. In other words, a high class living at a low cosVprice. Watch the Gaston county Farm-life School near Dallas! Carolina; 268 homicide cases in 1913-14, and a rate of 114 per miUion of popula tion ! Our rate is 50 per cent higher than the rate for the entire registration area. And remember that a large number of homicide cast® in North Carolina never HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES The 1913 Mortality Statistics of the Census Bureau. Cov- eri^ig 24 States and 65 per cent of our Total Population J. H. 1j.\SSITKR, Northampton County. University of North Carolina. Rates Per Million Inhabitants. 1. North Carohna cp... 2. Virginia c p 3. Kentucky c 4. Missouri c 5. Indiana c 6. California c 7. Montana 8. Utah c 9. Colorado c p 10. Ohio c. 11. Maryland 12. Washington^c p 13. Pennsylvania 14. Michigan 15. New York c 16. New'Jersey c 17. Maine p 18. Minnesota 19. Rhode Island 20. Wisconsin 21. Connecticut c 22. Massacl^usetts c 2o. New Hampshire c 24. Vermont c Urban Rural 274 1. North C&rolina c p... 173 197 2. Kentucky 125 194 2. Colorado c p 125 167 4. Cafifornia c 121 5. Montana —102 116 6. Utah c 74 113 7. .Virginia c p 70 —104 8. Missouri 60 — 97 9. Maryland 55 92 10. Washington c — 50 72 11. Connecticut c 51 — 69 12. Pennsylvania 44 63 13. New .Jersey c ....... 32 59 14. Ohio c 31 58 14. New Hampshire c 31 — 49 16. New York c 46 16. Michigan, 29 45 18. Indiana c 26 — 38 18. Vermont c 36 20. Maine p ' 35 21. Minnesota — 23 34 22. Massachusetts c 18 33 23. Wisconsin 16 31 24. Rhode Island — 9 c Means capital punishment for first degree murder, p Means state-wide prohibition. , Means decrease in rate since 1910.
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