The oews in this publica
tion IS released for the press od
the date indicated below.
the UNIVERSITY; OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
JUNE H. 1916 CTAPa HILL, N. C. VOL. II, NO. 29
Editorial Boardi B. C. Branson, 3. S. deB, Hamilton, L. B, Wilson L A Williams R H ^ —
— ’ ’ • J-nornton, u. iJl. McKtje,. Batered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the^oostoffice at Chapel Hill, N. C., ander the act of August 24, J913.
NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES
A BRIEF BREATHING SPELL
The University News Letter, .luiie 7,
14, and 21, are sent to the printers far
aliead of these dates. Tiie members of
the editorial board are calendared for
work the whole summer through, and
during the first two weeks of June they
are scattered to the ends of the earth, for
■.a brief breathing spell before the Summer
;hool session begins here June 13.
BRUTALLY FRANK
' "H. G. Wells, in his Social Forces in
'ngland and America, says; The British
eading and thinking public probably
does not number fifty thousand people all
told.
Carlyle was even less complimentary to
his countrymen. Said he, England con
tains thirty million inhabitants—mostly
fools!
As a matter of uncomfortable fact, the
numter of cud-chewing humans is barely
I more than a corporal’s guard in any
ijcountry at any one time.
FOX-FIRE PROSPERITY
"Every fall in the cotton states, we finger
aometiiing like a billioli dollars in cold
^sli. When the cotton is good, debts
are paid up, trade is brisk, the banks are
fcusy, dividends are big, and everybody
feels prosperous and chesty.
But It is.only a kind of fox-fire pros-
rity. Verily, it wouia.s^m. that only
children could be fooled by it.
I’ermanent farm prosperit;; can be
ckoned only in terms of accumulated
ealth. It cannot be estimated in crop
tals however enormous.
PROFESSOR CAIN’S NEW
BOOK
Earth Pressure, Retaining Walls and
Sins is the title of a new book Ijy ^^il-
1am Cain jtrofessor of mathematics in
|the University of North Carolina. It is a
i^ book of 297 pages, 99 figures, numerous
■ahles, and six chapters dealing with the
liitticult subject of earth jjressure as ap-
»lied to the design of retaining walls,
pouiidations, bracing of trenches, tunnel
inings, etc.
Professor Cain’s book i'^ the first and
only English treatise that gives the theory
of coherent earth. The book is notable
both for originality and clearness of i>re-
ientation. It will be particularly useful
0 students and of real value to the prac-
ical engineers.
EMBALMING PLANTS
There is a good deal of frank brutality
|u the world. And it may not be alto
gether amiss.
Emerson was probably right when he
^aid. The truest friendshi]-) is rough elec
tric shock.
A newsjiaper wit remarked the other
day, A friend is somebody who stands up
for us in ])ublic and sits down on us in
private.
But Wells says right out to the public
In general: English universities are poor
pud spiritless, vcith no ambition to lead
tlie country.
And Kussell, in The Irish Homestead,
pecently said: English universities are
[embalming plants where young intelli
gences are mummified.
Here indeed is engaging frankness, and
perha))s a large measure of truth.
the UNIVERSITY COACHING
SCHOOL
The University Coaching School begins
August 15th and continues to September
13th. This school is doing a splendid
^■and helpful work in ]>reparing boys to
■enter the University, and other colleges
in the State. Many students who fail in
their college work are taking advantage
of the review courses given in the Coach
ing School before standing the examina-
jtions for the removal of conditions.
Courses
High School and first and second year
i!ollege courses are given in Latin, Greek,
I Mathematics, Physics, English, French,
[^erman, and History.
The School is conducted at Chapel Hill
ifcy Professors G. K. G. Henry, and W.
sW. Rankin, Jr. A catalogue may be ob-
itained by writing to the manager (W. W.
|J^ankin, Jr.) Chapel Hill, N. C.
POVERTY AND PIETY
Almost every day we fall in with good
peo))le who have a deep-seattd conviction
that poverty promotes piety, that wealth
breeds wickedness, and that the church
has nothing to do with treasure on earth,
and the problems of material welfare
and well-being.
We never argue these questions, but we
always wonder what the Master meant
when:he Counseled the disciples to make
for themselves friends of the Mammon Of
unrighteousness. Is it not possible that
in this matter the children of this world
are wiser than the children of light?
Dr. George Adam Smith, the noted
Scotch minister and author, has an in
teresting chapter on this subject. He
contends that the great spiritual awaken
ings of history have been preceded by
conditions of wealth and comfort.
Lollardy, says he, grew out of the opu
lence of Norfolk, Puritanism out of the
trading prosperity of England, and Meth
odism out of the improved wages of Eng
lish toilers.
As a matter of fact, are efforts for im
proved social conditions a preparation
for the Gospel? Or is the Gospel a prep
aration for improved social conditions—a
prelude to abundant corn and oil and
wine, to use Joel’s phrase?
Here are fundamental questions that
call for definite, certain answers in these
times of social ferment.
POST GRADUATE WORK FOR
DOCTORS
The University of North Carolina has
arranged courses of post-graduate study
fojpra{:tiping;.phj^#ioia'fis; in tlteir home
towns.
To bring ))ost-graduate medical instruc
tion to the doors of North Carolina doc
tors is a new but jiractical plan recently
worked out by the University of North
Carolina and the State Board of Health,
in the interest of the physicians of this
State. Tlie plan in general is to put with
in financial and physical reach of the
general practitioner the means whereby
hp may become acquainted with the lat
est and best methods of diagnosis and
treatment of diseases and know the latest
advances made in scientific medicine,
and meanwhile stay in his practice. This
can be done, according to the University
authorities, by bringing the instructor
to the physicians instead of the reverse,
which has proven almost impossible for
the average physician. For the sum of $30
a member, which is less than one twelfth
of what it would cost a physician to take
even a summer course at some distant
school, to say nothing of the practice he
would permanently lose meanwhile to
his competitor, the University has ar
ranged a class ot post-graduate study to
start June 5 with seventy or more doctors
as members.
Diseases of Children
This first class, which is a course in
diseases of children, will embrace sec
tions in the towns of Raleigh, Weldon,
Tarboro, Wilson, Goldsboro, and Selma.
On Mondays, beginning June 5, the lec
turer or instructor will meet hia class in
Raleigh; on Tuesdays, in Weldon; on
Wednesdays, in Tarboro; on Thursdays,
in Wilson; on Fridays, in Goldsboro, and
on Saturdays, in Selma. At each place
he will give a one-hour lecture followed ^
by a two-hour clinic, and the class will ^
be continued for seventeen weeks, closing '
.September 23. Proper academic credits '
will be given the physicians who attend
85 per cent of the lecturer and clinics by
the University.
Dr. Louis Webb Hill, of Boston, Mas
sachusetts, who will be the instructor of
the class, is eminently fitted for his posi
tion. He Is a graduate of Harvard Uni
versity and an honor graduate of Har
vard University Medical School. He has
given service iii Hie Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital, ia the Floating Hospital,
in the Children’s Hospital and has had
charge of one of the Boston Milk and
Baby Hygiene Stations. He is at present
assistant to Doctor Morse in the Out-Pa
tient Department of the Children’s Hos
pital in Boston. Dr. Hill is author of a
small book on diabetes, and a number of
important papers on scientific medicine.
Just recently he has written a book on
laboratory methods in the diagnosis of
diseases of 'children, which will soon be
from the press.
THE GREATEST CITY
The city of grt^atest^growth in the
future will be that city which gets the
largest number of people to acknowl
edge the superior quality of its human
back-ground. — Bulletin, Board of
Trade, Madison, Wis.
ALERT IN SOUTH CAROLINA
The Piedmont Presbytery in South Car
olina passed the following resolutions at
the April session. i
In view of the fact that a large interest
of this Presbytery centers in the Country
Church, one-half of jur churches being
located in the oj^en country, and the fur
ther fact of the exodus of their former
members from the open country, and the
consequent decadence of these churches,
therefore.
Be it Resolved: that this Presbytery
begin an aggressive and constructive pol
icy for the rehabilitating of our country
communities and the upbuilding of our
country churches.And to this end.
First; that all ouj ministers be urged
to urged to study the problems of our
present Country lif^, and the relation of
a prosperous agriculture to a prosperous
Country Church. 4
Second; that ouB^iuinisters continue to
give time and attei|tion to our country
churches as they may have opportunity,
as pastors, or supplies, or through occa
sional services.
Third; that thei^Committee on Local
Home Jlissions b» histructed to endeavor
to, secu}-e,_^,iJ^i^v..fliir oue of the projjosed
g’roups, who shall be charged with the
leadership in developing the rural
churches in the bounds of the Presbytery;
and tliat the funds secured by Rev. J. E.
AVallace be turned over to this cause,
provided the donors consent thereto.
Fourth; that the Presbytery urge its
ministers and jieople to study the rela
tion of Man to Land, especially as taught
in the Scripture; and to do all in their
power to further Home-Osvnership.
Fifth; that the Presbytery urge also
upon all to study the relation of Man to
his Fellow-Man, and to further Organiza
tion and Co-operatioii in the Country.
Sixth; that the Presbytery, through
the Chairman of the Local Home Mis
sions Committee, maintain a correspond
ence with proper persons and authorities
at ports of entry, and with our people
who have to sell at reasonable terms,
with the purpose of assisting in the settle
ment of these lands by desirable Presby
terian emigranta.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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LETTER SERIES NO. 78
A NEW TEACHER
It is at once evident that with this new
education, or this old education with a
new sentiment, there will be, there is 'a
demand for a new kind of teacher. No
longer can a teacher “hear classes recite.”
There must be a readjustment of the ma
terial and of the child to be educated.
There must be more than an ability to
keep order and preserve discipline. The
job is too big for ove*yone indiscrimi
nately to tackle and think of success.
Teaching will become more than ever a
specialized process.
The material is different and must be
adapted to the making of man-power and
woman-power. Teachers must under
stand how to weave this new material in
to the warp and woof of young life so the
fabric will be fast color, hard wearing,
non-shrinkable.
, Requirements
i To do this requires men and women
with a vision, men and women who be-
I lieve in young life, who are in sympathy
I with it, who can recognize the weakness-
j es but utilize the points of strength as a
' bulwark in the time of stress and strain.
The new teacher must know something
about the nature of boy life and girl life.
The new teacher must understand how
mental traits bud, blossom, and either
fruit or die according as they are proper
ly or improperly treated.
Interests
The new teacher will be interested in
county life and in country folks and in
providing ways and means whereby they
may secure not only a meagre but a good
living. This new teacher will help make
country life a life of pleasure and of en
joyment, of interest and of worth, in
stead of its being so dead lonely and
without interest or zest. Best of all, the
new teacher will make possible more
comfortable homes, better equipped
kitchens and better filled bins, barns and
larders.
Results
The way to live and the comforts of liv
ing, the way to produce and the things to
produce, the animals to feed and how to
feed them, the books to read and how to
read them, the sums to do and how to do
them, these and other topics like them
will be the subjects of study.
The kitchen, the farm, the pasture, the
lawn will be the classrooms and the lab
oratories, all outdoors will be the audi
torium, nature will be the lecturer, hap
piness and content will be the result.
Hopes
But it cannot come in a day. It is a
something worth while and will take time.
Slowly the hours and the days creep on
but everj day and every hour brings
nearer the time when the teacher, the
school, the home, the occupation, the
recreation, the church and the whole cre
ation of modern civilized society shall
unite in protecting, educating, training
all our child life and its limitless store of
resources.
THE COUNTRY-LIFE INSTI-
TUTE, JULY 5-9
As a result of the conference of minis
ters at the Unis^ersity some time ago,
July 5-9 has been set as the date for the
Country-Life Institute during the Sum
mer School session at Chapel pill.
The program is now being elaborated,
but it can hardly be published in full
detail before June 28. In general the
work will be scheduled as follows;
Country Church and Sunday
School Day
Wednesday July 5. Subjects: The
Status and Mission of the Country Church
Evangelism in the Country Church.
The Country Sunday School. Promoting
Sunday School Attendance. Organizing
Sunday School Work. Country Church
Menaces. Country Church Homes and
Resident Pastors.
Country WorK and Wealth
Day
Thursday July 6. Subjects: The Coun
try-Life Problem. Boys’ and Girls’ Club
Work. The Country Home. ThI Coun
try Community. Farm Cooperation.
Farm Credit. Improved Public High
ways. Farm Tenancy in the South.
Country Health Day
Friday. July 7. Subjects: The Church
and Community Health. Whole-Time
Health Officers and Community Nurses.
Tlie Orange Sanitary Survey. Child Wel
fare Campaigns. Preventable Disease
and Postponable Death. Our State Health
Board.
Country School Day
Saturday July 9. Subjects: Country
High Schools and Farm-Lite Schools.
The County-AVide School Systeuj. (boun
ty Commencements and SchoolFairs.
Religion and Recreation. Home and
School Recreations. Neighborhood So
cials and Field Days.
The Church and the Com
munity
Sunday July 9. Model Sunday School
Hours in the Village Sunday Schools;
and Sermons in the A'arious Churches on
some phase of Church and Community
Welfare.
THE INSTITUTE BULLETIN
A thirty page bulletin on Country-Life
Institutes is nearly ready for the printers.
It is the work of the committee appointed
by the ministers conference at the Uni
versity on May 8th: E. C. Branson of
the University Faculty, Dr. Archibald
Johnson, Thomasville, and Rev. F. M.
Hawley, Mebane, N. C.
This committee has been aided every
step of the way by Rev. T. M. Grant,
Hillsboro, Dr. G. W. Lay, Raleigh, Rev.
W. E. Kennett, Blebane, Dr. W. A.
Harper, Elon College, Rev. Walter Pat
ten, Dr. W. R. L. Smith, Dr. W. S.
Long, and Dr. L. A. Williams of Chapel
Hill, Dr. W. S. Rankin, Dr. Clarence
Poe, and Dr. J. Y. Joyner of Raleigh,
Dr. H. Q. Alexander of Matthews, and
Mr. J. Z. Green of *Marshville.
A Big New Idea
The Country-Life Institute bulletin out
lines a new idea; new in three essential
particulars:
First. There have been numerous
Country - Life Conferences, Country
Church Conferences, Sunday School In
stitutes, Farmers’ Institutes, Teachers’
Institutes, Medical Associations, and the
like the whole country over; but the
Country-Life Institute proposed by Mr.
Coble and President Graham bring all
these various social agencies together and
center their attention'jointly upon the
fundamental concerns of Country-Life.
Second. The initiative and leadership
in the proposed Country-Life Institutes
are undertaken by devoted ministers who
are concerned about the efficient pastoral
care of country congregations, who are
anxious to strike hands in Christian fel-
lowsliip in solving the problems of coun
try life, economic, educational, social and
spiritual, and who realize that these
problems can be solved only by a federa
tion of all the forces of Country Life.
And third. The proposed Institutes are
of the people, by the people, and for the
people. The bulletin is intended to make
it possible for any community to organize
and conduct its own Country-Life Insti
tute. It (1) organizes and outlines su])-
jects, (2) it indicates for the workers en
gaged helpful books, bulletins and pam
phlets—few books that need to be bought
and many bulletins that may be had free
upon postcard reijuest, and (3) it gives
the addresses of various 'oflicials who are
expert in these dififerent fieUls of activity,
many or most of whom can be secured
upon timely invitations for definite dates
well in advance.
Country people, country workers, and
country leaders cannot or do not attend
the liig Country-Life Conferences. But
nobody can have bigger occasions of their
own' than these same country people.
Country-Life Institutes by
Country People
The plan is not to take the Country-
Life Institutes to them, but to enable them,
where they are so minded, to have their
own Institutes; and to make out their
own programs, to invite their own pre
ferred speakers, to lay burdens on and to
develop their own home-bred leadera,
and to vary these Institutes to suit their
own community needs here and there.
For Interested People Only
Only a small edition of this bulletin
can be issued by the University. It can
not be widely distributed. It will be sent
only to the people who are interested in
the movement and its purposes.
AVrite to the University Extension Bu
reau, if you want 'it, or would like to
have it .sent to particular addresses. And
write at once, please, before we go to
press.
HELPING THE BOYS
AV'inston-Salem schools are planning to
help the boys of that city this summer in
a most effective manner. So far as we
know the idea is entirely new to North
Carolina.
Supt. Latham is sending out cards to
the parents of the city which read;
What is Your Boy Going To Do This
Summer? The Manual Training and
Printing Departments of the Winston-
Salem High School will be Open for the
Practical Training of Boys During Vaca
tion.
The Manual Training Department is
prepared to do general carpenter’s work,
repairing old or broken furniture, up
holstering, picture framing, etc. For
further information see Mr. L. M. Mahn,
424 Pine St., Phone 1646.
The Printing Department is prepared
to do the usual forms of printing required
by the public: programs, tickets, letters,
invitations, order blanks, bill heads, pos
ters, catalogues, etc. For further infor
mation see Mr. R. B. Falls, 209 W. Third
Street.
Keep this card where it will remind
you.
This is real help. AVhile it utilizes the
school plant, it is keeping the boys profit
ably engaged, it is teaching them a trade,
it is meeting a need of the community.
Here is a school system alive to its op-
portunities through the skill of its lead
ers.