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The aewj in this publica tion is released for the press on the date indicated below. the university of north CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolina for its Bureau of Extension. APRIL 26,1916 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. VOL. U, NO. 22 t •ISditorial Baardi ES. C. Branson, J. a. deB. Hamilton, L. K. Wilaoii, L. A. Willm.us, B. H. Thornton, t+. M. McKie E'lCePHd ».s second'class matter Noyember 14, 19U, at thd.postoffice at Chapel Hill, N. C.t under the act of August 24,19U ■p— — . NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES NOT TOO FAR AWAY it is a far away call, from Nortfi Caro lina to California. Yet not too far to the call of my dear Old .\hna Mater. Like .ludge Bynum I value the good work of Tlie (Iniversity News Letter and p'edge another one luu\dreil dollar.s as he does. Hoping that the liat may grow rapidly and that 1 may have an early notice to make good, I beg to remain with assur- iiBce of high personal regards. Very truly yours, Julian 8. Carr. THE WONDER GROWS JUigh School week at the University at- tuacts a larger crowd of visitors than ■Coniinencement week and arouses even a grater interest on the Hill than Junior week, \This year The Ayeock Memorial Cup ■was won by Miss Myrtle Cooper and Mr, ajoyd Harden representing the Graham -High Wchool. It is a great honor to he, rchoten first among 1300 liehatera repre senting 324 schools in 94 counties. The final victory was over a team tronl the Wilson High School which won out -so handsduiely last year. iThe inter-scholastic honors in the it^ack meet were won by Friendsftip for ;the tliird successive year. The champion- ^ship was « on in tennis doubles by \M1- .miugton; in basket ball by Chapel Hill, -The North Carolina Debating I nion is under the auspices of the Dialectic and ‘Pliilanthropic Literary Societies an(i the ,S:.x.tensioii Bureau at the University. It is properly called by Bresident Grahau'i >the biggest influence today in North Car- •olina in developing public opinion. The Secretary of the Debating Union is Ir. E; K. Kankin and its State-wide suc- “ss is largely due to his genius for organ- ing effort. A Difficult Task The Federal (iovernnieiU is trying to solve the problem of idle labor. The Em ployment Bureau of the Labor Depart ment rnaintains free labor agencies in 48 .■enters scattered from Maine to Texas. There never was a time in the city and country regions of the United States v\ hen the lemand for labor was greater. Nevertheless, in January and February of this year the number of workmen ap plying to the Federal labor agencies for jobs was only 15,000 or so; or about a third of one per cent of the number un employed , The hard fact is that idle people do not for the most part want work, or they do not want the kind of work that ofl'ers. Jobless people in the cities, for instance, turn their hai ks on country jobs. When Dickens visited us a half century or 80 ago, he said that a tramp in Ameri ca would be as rare as"a meteor at mid day, Now our confirmed tramps num ber four millions or more. Helping people who need help is al most the most ditticult task that mortals ever undertook. THE SOUTH The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hallowed and lieroic memories. To that land every drop of my blo''d, ex’ery fiber of my being, every pulsa tion of my heart, is consecrated for ever. I was born of her womb; I was \ nurtured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray (rod that I may be pillowed upon her bovsom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms.—The late Senator E. VV. Carmack, of Tennessee, UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 71 EDUCATION FOR LIFE The old-time advertisement of a once famous pr€'paratory school in North Caro lina ileclared that the object of its Eng lish department was to prepare boys well either for a study of the classics and through them for college or for the ordi nary business of prai;li(«l life. The lit- 'tle fellow entering this school got from the advertisement the comforting assur ance that he had in it two chances at the future, —one by way of the ancient thor oughfare of the classics and the other throngh a .side door from the schoolhouse out into the ordinary business of practi cal life. One good thing about this ad vertisement was that early preparation for life was at least optional and within easy reach of those who might not be able to take the classical studies in the prepar atory school and later on in college. Preparation for Life or College The object of education toda; is becom ing more and more to gi\'e instruction in ^OUR DEFICIENCY IN LIVE STOCK A farm with one anhnal unit for every hree acres is considered heavily stocked, 1th one animal unit for every fi\e acres t is lightly stocked. An animal unit equals one horse, one rule, one milk cow, one t\fo-year old teer; two other cattle; two yearling or our spring colts; five hogs or ten pigs; even sheep or fourteen lambs; or 100 laying hens, IWhat We Need and What We Have Tlie average farm in North Carolina in 910 was 35 cultivated acres, A lightly tocked farm of this size would have do- lestic animals about as follows: 1 horse r mule, 2 milk cows, 2 other cattle, 2 hogs, 6 pigs, 7 sheep, 6 lambs, and 50 ' ay in g hens—tiital 7 animal units. In 1910 we averaged only 4.4 animal units per farm. ^Ve wore 37 per cent be- [.low the lesel of lightly stocked farms. fThat is to say, the hvestock of the state iineeds increasing, all told, at least 40 per :-«ent; while a 50 per cent increase woulil tbe better still. I \Ve needed 1,780,000 animal units on • the farms of the state; we had only 1,- 120,000. We have gained immen.sely since 1910; but we still have a long way •to go. INCREASING SUPPORT On March 29 The University News Let ter published a letter from Judge W. P. Bynum, suggesting that a company of fifty men join him in subscribing $100 a year for five years to ii>creasing the cir culation and the influence of the jjajier tdl it completely covers the State, and reaches the reading public in other states. Since this letter was published, Mr. John Sprunt Hill and General J. S. Carr have joined Judge Bynum, and" Mr. Hugh iiaclia'e has ottered to give $50 a year for five years. The plan and pur pose are a big proposition, and this practical interest of big business men in it gives us confidence and makes us eag er to uiidertake to realize the magnificent opportunity that it opens up to us. A New Suggestion The following letter recei\ed today may every direction within and beyond the State demonstrate the necessity for such a center of ready information in Norih Carolina. The value of it is easily ap parent, It would be another long step forward in putting the University at the Poetical things and to teach in the school service of the state. i of many thmgs that have to be done in every day life. It is an encour aging fact that each succeeding year If you are in any wise interested, write at once to Mr. E. K. Kankin, Secretary of the University Extension Bureau.. The ! responses within the next few days will j enable us to estimate the situation with more accuracy. PROGRESSIVE NORTH CAROLINA “Sometimes by going away from hom^ we can learn better what is l>eing done by our own community,” says The Winston- Salem Journal. “Often great things are transpiring all around us, but our famili- iarity with them causes a tendency on pur part to take them as a matter of course and we seldom stop to tliink about them as anything more than common place occi^rrences. AVonder how many North Carolinians have-' pau.sed to think of the wonderful progress that is being made in their own State? The March is sue of Progress, the organ of the South ern Sociological Congress and a national I journal of education, industry and social marks a nearer ap|)roach 'to the belief that those subjects in the high school curriculum whic h [>repare one for a suc cessful practical life should be continued in the college and taught there more thoroughly and intensively so that wider and jnore effective knowledge may be built upon the good work already be gun in the preparatory schools. College Entrance Requirements Preparation for entrance into the ordi nary business of a practical life ought'by all means to carry with it the idea of preparation for entrance into college, and on the other hand preparation for en trance into college f>ught to prepare one for entrance into life.*In other words, those subjects which are taught in the high school to ^ive preparation for life ought to count for college entrance. Were the old-time college and the old-time life .ao very different from each other? By the way, do some people in^ie.-ie days of progress yet belie\e tiiat i>rei>aration for college is a very diflferent thing from prep aration for life and that one who has in hiah school prepared for life [>ared to enter into college? IS unpre- further poiiit the w dj. [service, has the following editorial on “I note the recent offer ot Judp By-1 num as io The University .News Letter. | News Letter, i I heartily agree with his view as to its I value. The paper is read, witfi interest' by all classes of our people who can get hold of it. I believe its weekly message j is not only invaluable inside the state, but its advertising value outside the state is immense. 1 am not able to put as' much money behind my judgment as some others, but I want the privilege of subscribing !J10 a year for the next five years. I consider tliis an investment in the State. I’ll get that much good out of Carolina shows the most intelligent pro gress. There seems to be a spirit of con- .“tructive activity in that State that is actually doing things, a feelin; of pride in community .service that promises well for the future, A State-wide can:ipaign of 'know-your-hoiue-community’ is in progress, and, with the University as the center, there are radiating into the utter most recesses of the State great influences that work for good. A University of the People the paper directly and indirectly if its capitalization is increased, for I wiilproh-1 “The University of North Carolina is ably ask you to send it to a hundred oth- j perhajis at the present date more nearly ers in my county. In this way -I’ll get at least, and I ai- TWO SIDES OF THE PROB LEM 'Tlie standing army of the unemployed im. the United States ranges from four ' rnillion.s or so in prosperous years to sev en millions or more in periods of depres- : sion—mainly in the city centers. At the same time there is a steady de mand for labor in the farm regions, and I this demand ri.ses into urgency during the harvest seasons. That is to say, there are at all times jobless men and manless jobs in abun dance in this country; and the jobs call for the men in vain. For instance, the deserted farm dwellings and uncultivated farms in Orange county alone number 359. The problem is to connect up the jobs cln tlie farm regions that need men, with oneniutlre city who need jobs. It is a big economic problem in nearly e^ery country in the world. And it is a:i es- J 'Ceedingly ditiieiilt one. my monej's worth, ways try to do that. “j\Iy suggestion then us smaller iry a cluince: give fifty men a chance to subscribe $50 each for five years'; and a hundied men a chance to subscribe $25, $15, or $10 (my size), and ■the thing will go through with a whoop! Then in addition to making us life sub- scribeis, give each of us the privilege of sending it to a hundred people in our county tree." The I'liiversity News Letter heartily ac cepts the suggestion. This is the best possible way, and indeed the only way to realize our dream. If there artj among its readers at present enough people who wish to extend its influence to 50,000 people weekly in and out^ifjh^ state, the paper is at their service. A New and Big Idea: An Econ omic Clearing-House In addition, and this is important: If this plan goes through successfully, we will be able to establish here in connec tion with the paper an efftcient clearing house of economic and soiial information about North Carolina, for the use of edi tors, investors, legislators, students of all sorts, farmers, bankers, and businessmen in general. , r • An Economic and Social Research Li brary of this sort at the University will be something new in the I'nited States. In- (juiries coming to us every day from a univer.=ity of the people than any other Southern institution. The State feels com mendable satisfaction i i the work this that you give educational plant is doing. To fulfill the ideal of wliat a university should be and to serve the people of the State as it should serve theni, the university ha.s^en- larged its campus to include the entire State. With this increased activity, has been fostered a-spirit of altruism that is remarkable. From Chapel Hill there goes out a feeling that no part of the State is separated from any other part and that all the State has the same birth right to progre.sg that any one individual has. There is a i;rowing responsibility in citizenship that is certain to bring rich rewards in the future. High ideals and lofty inspirations are the topics of the day; backing these come a self-sacrificing, fearless warfare against social stagnation upon the part of every North ('arolinian who has the good of the Old North State at heart.” It is indirect, cimibersome. and o]>eii to corruption. It is not truly representative; for the people do not elect their own rep resentatives, and the delegates frej|ueiitly do not carry out the wishes of the ]>eople thata,re supposed to elect them, candi dates not thought of by the people being sometimes nominated in convention. The people take little interest in the conven tion system, for less than 10 per cent par ticipate in the caucuses or primaries for the election of delegates. II. The direct primary is preferable for the fallowing reasons: It is repre sentative, for it puts the nomination in the hands of the people. The people use it where given opportunity, for in schiie states th^ proportion of voters participat ing in the .primaries is 73 per cent, in others 90 per cent, and the average for thirty-two. states is 75 per cent. It has proved a success, for no state that adopt ed it has abandoned it. III. ,The defense of the convention system-'on the ground that it represents the wisdom of the founders of our gov ernment is invalid, for when adopted it was suited to the conditions of difficult travel aud sparse settlement; coni'.ition that no longer prevail. Negative Argument I. The convention is in banhony with our system of government; for it is a system of delegated pov^'ers, and it is rep resentative, the people in caucus Iraving a chance to choose their delegates. II. The convention fixes responsibil ity better than the direct primary does; for under the convention system the par ty is responsible, whereas under the di rect primary the people are responsible. 11,1. The direct primary is actually more cumbersome than the convention system; for under the open primary sys tem, voters from one party can \-ote in the primary of the other party and so nul lify the intent of the other party, and under the closed j)riniary system the in- depenlent voter has no voice—he must declare his loyalty to the party in order to v»tg^ The large number of candidates, too,'con fuses'the voter. I\'. The convention secures the best results for the following reasons; The l>est men of the party are made leaders. It compels the party to'nominate good candidates, for the success of the leaders of the party depends on their winning. It brings the issues directly before the people, for under it, unlike the direct primary, each party must put out a plat form. I well-lighted, well cared for, new, bri(k building. Then there was little or no thought of sending ciiildren away to higher institutions. Last year four hoys, the entire t;raduating class from the hii>h school, went to college and every last one of them has maile gotfd. This year there is a graduating class of ti\'e j^irls and two boys, of which number five are surely going on to higher institutions of learn ing. The Lesson More conipari.-ions might be made but they would all be of the'same nature. The entire situation goes to pl-ove how essential it is for any community to hold its teachers for as long a period of years as is possible. Mr. A. F, Leighton and his wife have been there the entire four years and these changes are largely the result of their tireless otforts in leading the work of the other teachers, as the en tire community will testify. One thing badly needed is more and l>etter equipment for the rooms. Doubt less this will come very soon since the en tire community is now alive to public education and justly proud of its school. In the light of what we saw we cannot believe the people there will allow their school tf) go backward for lack of proper and necessary working tools. DIRECT PRIMARIES IN NORTH CAROLINA A debate outline furnished by the class in English 15-16, University of North Carolina. ^ Kesolved : That North Carolina should adopt t^ie Direct Primary for the nomi nation of state and county officers. Affirmative Argument I. The present convention system is unsatisfactory for the following reasons: CHERRIES ;\R£ RIPE At last .Toe Nixon and his school at CherryvHle have been able to get out the first issue of their school paper. They have called it Cherry Leaves and we look forward to its blossoming out and pro ducing much fruit. f Like e\ ery good tree it lias' several branches and new shoots will no doubt ajipear from time to time. The domestic science class will specialize on cherry pie we presume. Cherryville seemeil to carry away many of the honors at (iaston County Com mencement. W’e wonder if they won. the prize for canned fruit too. rosehill alive We have been running aboyt lately in the eastern part of the state and tak ing a look at school conditions. Among the places visited was Kosehill, in Diipliu County, AVe are very greatly plea.sed with the public school conditions there. Four years ago interest in education at this little village was almost at a stand still. The building was old, out of date, inadequate. Now there is a beautiful, REAL TEACHER HELP Extension Circular No. 8., sent out by the Extension Service of the A. & M. at West Raleigh, contains a st^t of 50 arith metic problems based upon agricultural club work. Twenty problems are typical of the iiuestions a boy must answer in Corn Club work. Twenty more grow' out of work in the Pig Club, and ten more are reprftsentative Poultry Club prob lems. Teachers who are trying to give their students “practical problems” and who are at their wit’s end to find such ques tions in arithmetic should send' for the bulletin. It is a real help to children. There is a heap more goodness in ruost tjien than there is ability to see goodness in other men. It is strange how few people can see the value of education for their children about the time spring plowing, comes along.
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