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The news in this publica- tioa U released for the press on the date indicated below. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER CTOBER 18, 1916 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. jitorial Boardi B. C. Branson, J. a. deB. Hamilton, L,. B. Wilson J H Tr>ht,afr.T. e tr 7 ~~ ' ^ R H- Thornton, &. M. McKie. Entered as seoond.olass matter Published weekly by the University of North Carolina (or its Bureau of Extension. VOL. II, NO. 47 November 14, 1914, at 6he«D09t0fflce at Chapel Hill, N. 0.| under the act of August 24,1918. NORTH CAROLINA CLUB STUDIES J»HODUCTIVE SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY Books by members of the University faculty this fall, already issued or in the press, are as follows: Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835- 0—Dr. J. G. deRoulhac Hamilton. James gprunt Historical Publications, Vol. 15, io8. 1 and 2. Radio-Activity—Dr. Francis P. Ven- ble. The first work on this subject in nglish. Outline of the Literature of the English enaisaance—Dr. Edwin Greenlaw. Nine American Prose Writers—Profes- or Norman Foerster. Die Journalisten—Professor W. D. Toy. The Modern Drama and Opera; Intro- uction to the Drama in America; and rancois de Curel’s L’Envers d’Une ainte, under the title A False Giant. THE MIDIANITES Tl*e otlier Sunday our Bible lesson was n Gideon and his Band. It was fairly ay to say who the Midianites were in -ideon’s day, but we found it hard to ay in definite, graphic ways who the idianites are in our day. ;Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins s not in any doubt about who they are n his home city. We are indebted to for his pamphlet on The Double hame of Baltimore. It concerns the un- jublished report of her vice commission nd her utter indifference to her shame. He reprints from The Survey Winthrop Lane’s two reviews of this report, and lows Gideon’s mighty trumpet blast, :mt all in vain, it seems—there is no -ideon’s Band in Baltimore. And he pours out the vials of ineffable oru upon the smug hypocrisy w'hich lustily sings Onward, Christian Soldiers, nd cries Ivord, Lord, from cushioned 3WS, indirt'erent to social conditions that 'ggar description and unwilling to light or civic righteousness. in' buying and selling. He was sober, industrious, independent, a stickler for the last pound of flesh allowed by law. He has passed to his reward. —The Marquette Tribune. IT HAS BEEN DONE A recent report of the British Sanitary Commissioner in India gives striking evi dence of the results of modern preventive medicine in the native army. The death rate per 100,000 was 41.12 in 1880; 16.09 in 1885; 18.60 in 1890; 15.71 in 1895; 18.57 in 1900; 9.50 in 1905; 7.12 in 1910: 6.78 in 1911; 5.66 in 1912; 4.55 in 1913; 3.73 in 1915. The mortality among the British troops fell during the same period from 24.8 to 4.3. The great drop between 1880 and 1885 was coincident with the general accept ance of the germ theory of disease; w'hile that between 1900 and 1905 coincided! with Sir Ronald Ross’s proof of the trans- i mission of malaria by the mosquito. Dr., Ross’s demonstrative work, by the way, ■ was done in India. | Belated and Befogged | The germ theory is one of the accepted bases of modern preventive medicine. It is a third of a century old, but only the other day a minister of the gospel asked Dr. T. M. Jordan, if he really thought that disease could be prevented. Think of that, will you, in this year of our Lord, 1916! The gospel of saved lives and post poned deaths is a kind of good news that this minister needs to preach with all his might and main, in our opinion, if he would serve the Great Physician acceptably. A TRANSFORMED COM- MUNITY ROAD-MAKING JBultetin 373 of the United States De- &rtment of Agriculture on Brick Roads as.this to say about the importance of roper engineering supervision in road uilding. 'In the past many communities have xpended large sums in efforts to improve heir public highw'ays without first hav- g secured the services of some one com- tent to plan and direct the w'ork. The ults have usually been very unsatisfac- ry under such circumstances and have requently served to discourage further fibrt. One of the mistakes most com- ouly observed consists in constructing ome expensive type of pavement on a oad w'here the location is faulty or the ; rades are impracticable. Not infrequent ly sharp angles in the alignment or ab-1 upt changes in the grade, which might ^ e easily and inexpensively remedied by i n experienced engineer, are left to im- [ de traffic throughout the life of a costly ' nd perhaps durable pavement. Even in constructing common earth oads it is doubtful economy to dispense witli the services of a competent engineer, nd if any considerable quantity of work i to be done, such services should cer- inly be secured. NEW UNIVERSITY BULLETIN A bulletin entitled “North Carolina Club Studies, 1915-16,” is now ready for the printers. Only a small edition can be issued. If you want it let us know at an early date. It deals with North Carolina: Her Re sources, Advantages and Opportunities. The twenty-one chapters are as follows; 1. Our Mineral Resources, Joseph Henry Allred, Surry County. 2. Our Timber Resources; Forestand Wood Lot, J. H. Lassiter, Northampton County. 3. Our Water-Powers: Available and Developed, D. E. Eagle, Iredell County. 4. Ou» Diversity of Products, R. E. Price, Rutherford County. 5. Our Industrial Development in 1910, H. M. Smith, Henderson County. 6. Our Industries in 1914, University News Letter, V'ol. II., No. 38. 7. Our Soils and Seasons, M. H. Ran dolph, Mecklenburg County. Or. Archibald Johnson I hav'e in mind a congregation in North Carolina and not very far from here, that two decades ago had preach ing once a month, and paid the preacher |100 a year. It is a real country church and at that time was typical. It was a bleak and barren old building, and the brethren heard a gospel sermon an hour long once every month and that was all. But a change came over the spirit of their dreams. Some man filled with the fire that comes from above arose in conference and moved that the pastor be paid $250 and the ser vices be doubled. It worked well. The bies-^ed contagion spread from |heart to heart. The Sunday school revived. There was a warmtli and gbw about theservice they had not known before. They tore down the old building and built a larger and more beautiful one. They finally decided that they had lost so much of the joy of Christian service that they would in some meas ure atone for it, and so they called a preacher at $1000 a year and a good houue. Land ailvanced in value. The farmers found a new joy in farming. The yoraig people went to college. The neighborhood was transformed. They are now engaged in building a 8>12,000 house which will be to them what the holy city wa.s to the He brew ! This is not a rich church. It is' composed of small farmers who own their farms and its ujembership has never gone beyond 1^ '/ ' Status, Agriculture, Industries, Educa tion, C. 0. Miller, Watauga County. (3) Social Status, Classes and Conditions, J. B. Huff, Madison County. GIRLS’ CLUBS IN THE SOUTH An increase since the beginning of the present calendar year from approximate ly 6,800 to 15,455 in the number of the women of the South enrolled in home demonstration work, carried on under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and State agricultural col leges, is shown in figures for enrollment, June 30, 1916, just announced by the Office of Extension Work, South. In the same period, the number of girls Food and Feed Crops in 1915 : Our enrolled in the canning, poultry and other agricultural clubs carried on under the Six-Year Gains, University News Letter, ^'ol. II., Nos. 7 and 10. 9. The Crop-Producing Power of Car olina Farms, J. B. Huff', Madison County. 10. The Crop-Producing Power of Car olina Farmers, F. H. Deaton, County. supervision of the same office, increased from approximately 42,500 to 47,749. The extension work among girls and ivomen was being carried on at the end of the fiscal year in 420 counties in all of Iredell 15 Southern States through 420 coun ty agents and 50 specialists. In addition, 11. Per-Acre and Per-Worker Crop North Carolina had 200 sub-agents, and Production, University News Letter. V'ol. Alabama 16 assistant county agents, who II No 18. i devoted their time to the extension activ- 12. Livestock Farming: Our Advan- ities. HUE LIVED IN MICHIGAN iFrank Waller was a unique character. honest comment is difficult to make n a: newspaper. We do not want to say I mikirul thing about him. He put I othing into this world and got nothing ut of it. His hoarded wealth brought | him an early grave, and he could take one of it with him. He was honest as e saw honesty, obeyed the laws of the and-when it cost him nothing, neighbor- d with no one, trusted no one, got all e could and kept all he got. His upper- oat philosophy of life was a false one; liat is, that a man w ith money in his ockets must of necessity have friends nd happiness. He contracted no debts, gave nothing charity or public enterprise, knew othing ab®ut the high cost of living, ever spent a cent foolishly, never in- 'Vested or gambled. Many a lad of 10 has en more of life worth living tlian he. He belonged to no societies, fraternal or liglous. He enjoyed making good deals tages and Opportunities, Wilkes County. D. N. Edwards, The largest enrollment of the girl dem onstrators was in the canning clubs, 13. Co-operative Enterprise in North which had 32,965 memoers. Inthepoul- Carolina, L. P. Gwaltney, Alexander County. 14. Economic Freedom in North Caro lina, M. B. Fowler, Orange County. 15. Our Twenty-Two Million Wilder ness Acres, Lawton Blanton, Cleveland County. 16. Our Need For Greater Wealth, R. E. Price, Rutherford County. 17. Taxation and Home Ownership in North Carolina, A. 0. Joines, Alleghauy County. ' 18. Elbow-Room for Home-seekers in North Carolina, G. H. Cooper, Rowan County. 19. A State Publicity Bureau, R. E. Price, Rutherford County. 20. The Fair: A Means of Stimulation and Advertisement, M. H. Randolph, Mecklenburg County. 21. OurCarolina Highlanders (1> Geo graphic Conditions and Influences, D. Edward.>^, Wilkes County. (2) Economic try clubs 10,205 girls are learning, through their local groups, under expert leadership, the details of raising domestic fowls. In the clubs devoted to bread making, 3,721 girls were enrolled, and in other clubs, 858. The home demonstration work for wo men has only one organization, but cov- er.i a number of different activities, in cluding various phases of home econom ics, cooperative Selling and buying, sani tation, and other home interests. —In formation Sheet, Federal Agricultural Department. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO, 95 THE RURAL SCHOOL TERM To get a clear understanding of this question of the length of the rural school term w'e must distingush betw'een the theoretical or possible school term and the actual school term. By the theoreti cal or possible rural school term we mean the legal rural school term, that is, the time school is legally kept open to all ru ral pupils who may desire to attend school in any one year. By the actual school term we mean the actual time, on the average, that all rural pupils enrolled on the school register actually attend school during the year. Only Eighty Days In theory, the North Atlantic States have a rural school term of 159.7 days, but in practice, because of the poor av erage daily attendance, the actual school term is less than 120 days; in theory, in the South Atlantic States it is 119.5 days, but in practice, because of the poor aver age daily attendance, it is less than 80 days; in theory, in the South Central States, it is 117.6 days, but in practice, because of the poor average daily attend ance, it is only 65 days; in theory, in the North Central States it is 152.7 days, but in practice, because of the poor average daily attendance, it is only 109 days; in theory, in Western States it is 145 davs, but in practice, because of the poor av erage daily attendance, it is only 101.5 days. Who is to Blame It must be remembered that these fig ures deal only with the average length of the rural school term as based upon the enrollment of pupils in rural schools. No attempt is made to take into considera tion the large number of rural pupils who should have been enrolled but who were not because of a lax enforcement of com pulsory attendance laws, or on account of ignorant or selfish parents who kept their children out of school for the pur pose of coining their own flesh and blood into a few paltry dollars—or worse still, allowed their children to grow up in idle ness and ignorance.— J. L. McBrien, School Extension Agent, Federal Educa tion Bureau. not? We have raw materials and labor in lavish abundance. AVhat we need is capital, industrial engineering skill, and business management. Our wooded area is some twenty mil lion acres. Our standing timber amounts to more than 400 billion board feet; in which particular North Carolina ranks among the first four .states of the Union. We lead tlie whole United States in the value of farm wood lot products—fire wood, posts, sills, poles, fencing and the like. We stand among the first four | states in the production of pine and other | softwood lumber; and among the first ten in hardwood products. We burned five and three i|uarter mil lion cords of wood in our stoves and fire : places in 1910, As firewood it was worth | eleven million dollars, but turned into paper it would have yielded profits amounting to 300 million dollars—profits, mind you. Tempting Profits in Sight Only about a third of the average yel low pine tree reaches the market as a merchantable product, says Dr. Arthur D. Little, formerly of the Boston School of Technology; two-thirds >f the tree is field w aste or mill waste. Some of the hmbs and slabs are used as firewood, but most of it rots in the woods. But a cord and a half of yellow pine waste makes a ton of kraft paper, and the profit on a ton of such paper in a well designed, well managed mill should not be less than jUlOO. These figures are illu minating ; and they are the figures of Dr. Little who is an expert chemical engineer in this field. If capital, technical skill, and business efficiency can get a clear profit of $100 out of a cord and a half of firewood or mill waste, then there seems to be a chance for wood pulp plants in North Caroliaa—in Wilmington and a dozen other localities. And the margin of profit on pulp and paper has been tremendously increased by the rise in paper prices. Print paper, for instance, ^has risen from $3.00 to $6.50 per hundred pounds within the last few' months; while the prices of stationery stock and wrapping paper have also more than doubled. But it is a far cry from a cord and a half of pine waste worth $4.13 at the mill to a ton of kraft paper bags worth $240 when unloaded in a grocery store. Be tween these two extremes lie specially trained chemical engineering and skilled workers in a technical trade. We have the raw material and crude labor; we need the capital and tlie technical skill. WOOD-PULP PLANTS Mr. Bion H. Butler is campaigning wood-pulp plants in North Carolina. So far we have only three wood pulp: and paper plants—one at Canton in Haywood county and two at Roanoke Falls. We might have a do/^n or so. Why THE STRUGGLE The hunger for riches in these days of luxurious living is lamentable. It is found among all ranks of life. It is the struggle of the poor who have nothing, of the thrifty who have some thing, and of the wealthy who have much. In this fierce contest for filthy lucre, honesty in business is sacrificed, the hon or of men forgotten and the virtue of women made a commodity. It is no longer sufficient to be comfort able in life, to have an abundance of ne cessities for the cable, a good home aud the joys of the simple life. It is the age of luxury and gayety—of diniug, wining and dancing. No one has enough. Everyone w'ants more. Comforts of life are in the discard. We must all eat, drink and be merry, but we forget that tomorrow we die. Tliere is pathos in the struggle of the unfortunate to put bread upon his table, shoes upon his children’s feet, and to pro vide an education for his boys and girls and a good home for his family. It is still more pathetic to find one who has accumulated riches thinking of noth ing except a greater accumulation of wealth and length of dajs to walk tiie primrose path of dalliance. Such as these plead with the doctor to prolong their feverish life, while they flit from health resort to health resort to find the fabled spring of perennial youth, the while retaining their grasp on accumu lated treasures. The world despises the miser and it despises still more the utterly selfish rich who turn away from the suffering and poverty that have alwaye existed and must alw'ays exist as long as the world lasts. But it is a mistake to believe tliat the people of this great country are divided into only two classes, the suffering poor and the insufferable rich. In this land of golden opportunity the toiler who is satisfied with the condi tions of simple living and who is not swept off his feet by the eager pursuit o a luxurious life can look forward hope fully to the day when he shall have achieved a competence, educated his children and provided satisfactorily for his declining years. It is for him to win or lose. In this Republic—so highly favored of God—the miserly rich and the struggling poor are exceptions, not the rule. On every side great institutions of learning, hospitals for the care of the sick, estab lishments for scientific development, foundations for promoting the public welfare, and libraries for free instruction are provided with a hand so generous that we are the envy of the Old World. This is the substantial and recognized fact. It should make the nation grateful and appreciative not only of the bounty of Providence, but also of the intelligence, the high-mindedness and noble purposes that animate the American people and that make wretched poverty, and still more wretched miserliness, the exception and not the rule.—Leslie’s Weekly. COUNTRY.HOME COMFORTS The teachers and school children in a south Wisconsin county have been look ing into the matter of home and farm equipments aud conveniences. They found 358 country homes in the county Supplied with running water, 308 with bath rooms, 113 with septic tanks for sewage disposal, 102 with electric lights, 141 with acetylene lights, and 819 farms equipped with silos. It is a livestock, dairy farming county; which means country prosperity, home comforts, conveniences, and culture.
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