The news in this publica-
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the date indicated below.
the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
news letter
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Elxtension.
JULY 5, 1916
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
gdit«ri.» Board. B.C. Branson, J. Ci. deR. Hamilton, L. B. Wilson, L. A. Williams, B. H.
Thornton, (>. n, MoKie. Entered as seoond-olaas matter November U, 1914, at thp,oostoflloe at Chapel Hill, N. C.,
VOL. n, NO. 32
ander the act of Aug^ost 34,1918.
NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES
PROGRAM
Country-Life Institute
Summer School, University of North Carolina
July 5-9, 1916, Gerrard Hall
ORGANIZATION
PRESIDENT: Rev. T. M. Grant, Hillsboro, N. 0.
SECRETARY: E. 0. Bransoii, University of North Carolina.
PR OGRAM COMMITTEE; E a Branson, Dr. Archibald Jolin.son, Thoniasville
and Rev. P. M. Hawley, Mebane, ’
PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY OOMMM Rev. Walter Patten, Chapel
Hill, Rev. F M. Hawley, Mebane, Dr. L. A. Wil
liams and E.G. Branson, University of North Carolina.
MUSIC COMMITTEi;: Misses Margaret Anderson and Annie Lee Webb Mrs J
M. Williams and Professors Gustav Hagedorn and
Preston Epps.
KKCEPTION COMMITTEE; Messrs. S. H. DeVault, S. H. Hobbs, Jr., and Eu
gene Sugg;
WEDNESDAY JULY 5
COUNTRY CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY
MORNING SESSION
A Word of Greeting.—Dr. Edward Kidder Graham, President Universitv'of
North Carolina.
Status and Mission of the Country Church.—Rev. J. M. Arnette,? Mebane!
Discussion led by Rev. T. S. Coble, Mocksville.
Devotional Period, Memorial Hall.
Evangelism in the Country Church.—Rev. J. M. Ormond, Hertford.
The Country Sunday School.-Mr. J. M. Broughton, Jr., Raleigh.
Promoting Sunday School Attendance.—Prof. E. L. Middleton, Raleigh.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Organizing Country Sunday School Work.—Messrs. Middleton]'and
Broughton.
Country Church Homes and Resident Ministers.-Dr. Archibald .Johnson,
Thomasville. ’
EVENING SESSION
Dr. Edgar J. Banks, Alpine, N. J.
8:30
;3:45
4:00
5:00
S:30
■3:30
■9:25
'9:45
a0:40
11:35
4:00
5:00
:S:30
THURSDAY JULY 6
COUNTRY WORK AND WEALTH DAY
MORNING SESSION
The Country Community.—Prof. W. (J. Crosby, Raleigh. Discussion lead
by Mr. J. Z. Green, Marshville.
Devotional Period, Memorial Hall.
The Country Home.—Mrs. W. N. Hutt, Raleigh.
Girls’ Club AV’ork.—Miss Lulu M. Caasidey, Hillsboro.
Boys’ Club Work.—Mr. T. E. Brown, Raleigh.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Farm Cooperation.—Dr. H. Q. Alexander, Matthews.
Farm Credit.—Mr. John Sprunt Hill, Durham. Discussion lead by Prof.
Wm. R. Camp, W^est Raleigh.
EVENING SE.SSION
Dr. Edgar J. Banks, Alpine, N. J.
THE FOOT-PATH TO PEACE
Dr. Henry L. Van DyKe
To be glad of life because it gives
you the chance to love and to work
and to play and to look up at the
stars,
To l)e satisfied with your possessions
but not contented with yourself until
you have made the best of them.
To despise nothing in the world ex
cept falsehood and meanness, and to
fear nothing except cowardice,
To be governed by your admirations
rather than by your disgust.
To covet nothing that is your neigh
bor’s except his kindness of heart and
gentleness of manner,
To think seldom of your enemies,
often of your friends, and every day
of Christ,
And to spend as much time as you
can with body and with spirit in
God’s out of doors—
These are little guide posts on the
foot-path of life.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 80
ALUMNI GIFTS
Alumni interest in the University is
rapidly taking the form of gifts. On
Alumni Day during the recent commence
ment the Class of 1911 handed to Presi
dent Graham a check for $860, and the
Class of 1906 a check for $1,000.
General Julian S. Carr, Class of ’66,
gave $4,000 to establish a fellowship.
Ten diplomas of the University, said
General Carr, hang on the walls of the
Carr home in Durham.
Judge Francis D. Winston in his trib
ute to him said, He is the loving son of
the old University and the devoted father
of the new.
There is no doubt about the effective
use the University mtikes of the $115,000
given for maintenance by our state legis
lature. We fervently wish that the work
ing income could be larger.
The loyalty of University alumni prom
ises increasing private generosity and en
larging public support.
FRIDAY JULY 7
COUNTRY HEALTH DAY
MORNING SESSION
Tlie Church and Community Health.—Rev. Walter Patten, Chapel Hill.
Devotional Period, Memorial Hall.
Whole-Time Healtli Officers and Community Nurses.—Dr. W. S. Rankin,
Raleigh.
10:40 Child Welfare Campaigns.—Dr. G. M. Cooper, Raleigh.
11:35 The Orange Health Survey.—E. C. Branson, University of North Carolina.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The Health of Rural Children,—Dr. Frances Sage Bradley, Children’s Bu
reau, Washington, D. C.
Preventable Blindness.—Dr. S. D. McPherson, Durham.
V EVENING SESSION
Dr. Edgar J. Banks, Alpine, N. J.
8:30
9:25
9:45
4:00
'5:00
.8:30
SATURDAY JULY 8
COUNTRY SCHOOL DAY
MORNING SESSION
'8:30 Country High Schools and Farm Life Schools.—Prof. N. W. Walker, Chapel
Hill.
‘9:25 Devotional Period, Memorial Hall.
45 County CommencementsandSchoolFairs.—Miss Lulu M. Caasidey, Hillsboro.
40 Religion and Recreation.—Rev. T. M. Grant, Hillsboro.
35 Neighborhood Socials and Field Days.—Mrs. Neva S. Burgess, Charlotte.
AFTERNOON SESSION
4:00 The Moonlight School Campaign.—Prof. W. C. Crosby, Raleigh.
-5:00 Home and School Recreations.—Miss Henriette M. Masseling, Atlanta,
Georgia.
SUNDAY JULY 9
RELIGION AND SOCIAL MINISTRATION
11:00 Methodist Church, Rev. Walter Patten, Subject: Torch-Bearers.
Baptist Church, Dr. W. R. L. Smith, Subject: Co-Workers with God.
Christian“Church, Dr. W. S. Long, Subject.- Service.
^ .30 Memorial Hall, Rev. Walter Patten, Subject: Salvation.
NEARLY A THOUSAND
The registration at the University Sum
mer School reached 939 the second week
Virginia is represented by 13 teachers,
South Carolina by 4, Tennessee 3, Okla
homa 2, and Florida, New Jersey, New
York, Wisconsin, Cuba, and Japan by
one each. ,
This summer school host comes up from
93 counties of the state. Orange Icais
with 47 teachers, followed by Wake with
39, and Robeson with 35.
Alamance, Columbus, Durham, Gran
ville, Guilford, Johnston, Mecklenburg,
Sampson, and Wayne have each between
20 and 30 teachers here.
Twenty-flve counties more have regis
tered between 10 and 20 teachers each;
Beaufort, Halifax, and Person, each 17,
and Anson, Bladen, Duplin, and Vance
15 each.
Fifty-five counties are represented by
from one to nine teachers.
The full capacity of our dormitories and
village homes is nearly reached before
the Summer School is a fortnight old.
COUNTRY-LIFE INSTITUTES
Country-Life Institutes is the title of
the new thirty-page bulletin issued by the
Extension Bureau of the University of
North Carolina.
It is the work of the program commit
tee appointed by the ministers of various
denominations in their conference at the
University in early May.
It outlines subjects, indicates available
speakers, and names bulletins and books
for (1) a Country Church and Sunday
School Day, (2) A Rural Work and
Wealth Day, (3) A Country School Day,
(4) A Country Health Day, (5) A Rural
Recreation Day, (6) A Rural Organiza
tion Day, and (7) A Sunday program de
voted to the Church and Community ser
vice.
This Bulletin makes it possible for any
community to hold its own Country-Life
Institute; or so wherever there is alert
ministerial leadership and sufficient
Christian fellowship.
It will be ready for mailing on June
30, and will be sent to those who write
for it. Address the University Extension
Bureau, Chapel Hill, N. C.
A TEACHER WANTED
A member of one of our school commit
tees wrote recently to a gentleman well
acquainted with the school people of the
state and asked his help in finding a
teacher for next year.
The school in question had been taught
for the last several years by a lady who
had gradfiated from an institution of
high rank and had taken special training
to fit herself for the teacher profession.
In addition, she had attended a teacher’s
institute or a summer school every sum
mer since her graduation. In the school
room she had shown special apitude as
an instructor and she was very popular
with the patrons of the school
Why
It was a fact, however, that two or
three of the larger boys gave so much
trouble that the committee finally de
cided that it would be best not to employ
the lady again but elect a man who could
manage these two or three larger boys
and make them behave.
! Therefore the committee was looking
for a man—some college sophomore pos
sibly, who for the lack of funds, was go
ing to drop out of college for a year or
two and teach so as to be able to return
soon to his college w'ork.
Just think of it! Here was a school
committee willing to dismiss a trained
teacher and successful instructor and em
ploy in her stead a young college sopho
more with no experience and no profes
sional training provided only he had
brute force enough to control two or three
nnruly boys in the school.
Good Advice
The gentleman very properly replied
that he thought that the young lady they
had dismissed was far better than any
young an inexperienced student with no
professional training and no intention of
making teaching a business.
But there is another thought or two
provoked by this dismissal of a good
teacher because of the bad deportment of
two or three of the larger boys in the
school. How would the reader of these
lines like to be the father of one of these
boys whose conduct was such that the
school committee deliberately decided
that the proper person to teach him was
a young fellow of muscle rather than a
lady of training and success in teaching
the other children of the community?
Home Training
The conduct of a child in the school
is pretty fair index of the home he has
been reared in, and it is a pretty fair
record of his parents’ daily instruction in
good manners and gentlemanly conduct.
It is safe to say that the matter of dis-
cipline in the school will disappear when
parents will so train their children at
honie that they will behav^e well from
habit when they go to school. The bad
conduct of no two or three pupils should
be permitted to’cause the dismissal of a
teacher whose services are entirely satis-
factory to all others interested.
AVho wants to be the father or mother
of the pupil whose bad conduct causes a
teacher to lose her position?
A GREAT SOUTHERN STATE
Recently on a zigzag journey through
Mississippi from north to south, through
the heart of the State, we had the oppor
tunity of addressing some 3,000 teachers
in the summer schools at Blue Mountain
College, the State University at Oxford,
the A. 4.M. College atStarkville, the Mis
sissippi College at Clinton, the State Nor
mal School and the Woman’s College at
Hattiesburg.
Mississippi has a right to be proud of
these institutions of learning. They
would do credit to any state in the Union.
The state University at Oxford is not the
most extensive plant of this sort in the
South, but it is the most beautiful and
charming, bar none. Tiie University,
the Industrial Institute and College for
Women at Columbus, the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, and the State
Normal School have always maintained
high levels of efficiency. The campus
areas, the buildings, and the equipments
of all these institutions are extensive—
surprisingly so, the wealth of the state
considered. Evidently Mississippi has
been endowed with rare educational
statesmanship.
On every hand we found evidences of
originality, initiative and capable leader
ship in Mississippi. There are 43 agri
cultural high schools in the state, and
the average value of Miese properties is
around ii50,000.
The cost of student living in the teach
er training schools, the colleges and the
University has certainly been lowered to
an irreducible minimum—from JilO to
$14 per month for table board, light,
heat, water, and attendance in the col
lege dormitories and mess halls.
School laundries are the rule, and this
expense is unbelievably small everywhere.
Also, the cost of living for the faculty
members is kept at the lowest possible
figures by campus residences for faculty
families—11 on the campus at Oxford,
and 43 at Starkville. At the University
the faculty family that cannot occupy a
campus home is allowed |300 a year for
rent.
They even take care of the bachelor
members of the A. & M. faculty, in a
Bachelor’s Hall. They are wise enough
to put this building side by side with the
Spinsters’ Retreat. And every once in a
while a new campus residence must be
built.
SMALL WEALTH, LARGE
WILLINGNESS
The development of elementary public
schools, high schools, technical schools,
and the University in Mississippi is re
markable, considering the small per capi
ta wealth of her people. The willingness
of ]\Ii8sissippi to invest in school advan
tages is far beyond the wealth' of the
State.
From every angle of approach, it is evi
dent that the wealth of Mississippi is
small. The per capita country wealth in
farm proi>erties in 1910 was only f300,
and only two states, Alabama and Louis
iana, made a poorer showing in this par
ticular. All properties whatsoever con
sidered, the per capita wealth of the state
in 1912 was only $726, and in this partic
ular Mississippi stood at the bottom of
the list.
The total savings deposited in all hef
banks in 1915 were only a little more than
eleven million dollars, and her rank was
41st among the 48 states of the Union.
Her per capita savings, counting the
white population alone, were only $13
against ji75 in the country-at-large.
The total capital stock of her 322 banks
in March 1915 was less than fourteen
million dollars, her total bank deposits
less than 64 million dollars, and her total
bank resources less than 95 million dol
lars. Her per capita bank resources
were only $49 against •1-269 in the United
States.
The really remarkable progress of edu
cation in Mississippi is due to the will
ingness of the people to convert their
wealth, small as it is, into' community
welfare aud well-being. Taxes and bond
issues for school buildings, school sup
port and good roads meet with almost no
opposition anywhere in Mississippi; or so
w'e are informed ail over the state.
CASHING IN
Farmers need to know how to make
the science of agriculture -boost the busi-
ness of farming.
The farmer who robs his soil is sawing
oft the limb upon which he is sitting.
The farmer w'ho sells all his crops and
then burns all liis cornstalks and straw
reminds one of the burglar who takas ail
the valuables he can carry oflf and sets
fire to what is left.
When you break even on your beeves
you are ahead of the game provided you
save manure—especially if you have kept
hogs following the cattle.
The problem of keeping livestock with
profit is largely a matter of using roughage
as silage, or bedding the stuff that is
wasted on the average farm.
Weeds aud weed seeds, usually counted
worse than nothing, may be put on the
right side of the ledger by means of a
few sheep.
Catch but one bad ear in testing seed
corn and you save a good day’s wages.
Find the average number of bad ones and
you save a week’s wages in a winter’s af
ternoon. Buying seed is a business propo
sition—not an exercise of faith.—Carl W.
V room an. ’