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THE UNIVERSSTY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau oi Extension.
JANUARY 16, 1918
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. IV, 8
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Ediiorial Board . B. C. Branaon, J. Q. deK. Hamilton, L. K. Wilson, R. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie.
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the PostolBce at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912.
THE NEW CLUB YEAR-BOOK
The 1916-17 Year-Book of the North
Carolina Club at the University—the sec
ond so far—is now going into tlie mails.
It goes free of cliarge to anybody in the
State wlio wants and writes for it; and
for 25 cents to anybody outside the state.
It is a bulletin of 140 pages and con
tains 24 chapters, by various members of
the club, on (1) the Sources of Primary
AVealth in North Carolina, (2) the Accu
mulated Wealth of the State, and the
Forms of it, (3) the Business Uses of our
AVealth, (4) the Civic and Social Uses of
it, and (5) the Rank of North Carolina
among the states of tlie Union in all
these particulars.
A Unique Volume
Our Year-Book is a look-in at the
forces and agencies that are making or
marring, creating or crippling North
Carolina today. It is not a volume of
state liistory, but a volume of state eco
nomics and sociology—of history in the
making.
So far as we know, it is the only vol
ume of its sort in the United States. It
is a microscopic examination of the eco
nomic and social forces of a single state;
not a volume of dry facts aud figures,
but a lively interpretation of causes, con
sequences, and remedies by a group of
University students.
It is really a little text-book on AVealth
and Welfare in North Carolina, worth put
ting—as we hoj>eour readers will think—in- ,
to tlie liands of every thinker and leader
among tlie teacliers, preadiers, doctors,
fanners, bankers, merchants, and man-
ufacturers of the state. j
A Home-State Text-BooK
Is tliere any text better wortli tlie while
of our fourth year Idgh ^cllool students?
Or of our teacliers in their prescribed ;
study courses? We should be glad to ,
have you think about that lis you go
througli tliis Year-Book.
Just a few cop es are being sent un
solicited to tlie people who can help the
Club create an interest in tlie study of
Home-State economics and sociology,
If tliey deem it wortli while, tlie Club
would he grateful for a brief word in the
pullio prints about it. Tlie contents of
this imlletin must get into tlie public
miiil ill Nortli Carolina—a difficult mat
ter, at tliis moment of pre-occupation
about tlie AA'^orld AYar.
Y'e arc asking thoughtful people to
read it and to help us to get it across to
the folks—if they think our New Year
gift ,‘-.)rtli the trouble.
Ellis of tlie University of Texas:
Uneducated laborers earn on an av
erage $500 a year for 40 years—total
$20,000.
Higli scliool graduates earn on an av
erage $1000 a year for 40 years—total
$40,000.
This education requires twelve years of
school of 180 days each, or 2L60 days in
school.
If 2160 days in school adds $20,000 to
tlie income for life, then each day in
school adds $9.02.
It is a very simple lesson in figuring.
Tlie point is tliis^—
The child that stays out of school to
earn less than $9.00 a day is losing
money.
These facts are based on field investiga
tions in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Spring-
field, Mass., in 1908 and 1909. They are
not guesses—but facts.—The Money
Value of Education by A. Caswell Ellis,
Federal Education Bureau Bulletin, No.
22, (1917).
AN ALERT REGISTER
Ji;. C. U. Amick, the register of deeds
ini’ - -dolph, gives to the taxpayers, in
the ‘ r liehoro Courier of December 6, a
m M analysis of the tax situation in his
county.
1 !. I'ery simple. It is easily under-
stu.^ . hihle. It gives information that every
ta. ; , 'r ought to have every year in
.ev ly county. It throws a flood of light
..up I! lie of the hardest problems of or
gan! i societies.
1' 1 every county can have such a
pin.li analy.si.s of its taxes—provided (1)
eve ■ ; $unty has a wide-awake, capable,
w'Fl'.a register of Mr. Amick’s sort, or
'.(2) . Local Study-Club like the N. C.
iCl"'- •( tlie University, busy digging out
su. facts for the public eye.
' suggest that the Registers of the
St write for it, study it, and duplicate
it ' Mio public prints of every county.
, Hiat intelligent citizens in every
e, send for it and get behind the
p ation of such facts in their home
c. ■ , Tiie folks are entitled to know
■v^ witli their tax money year by
year
• '•,,,,,1 I- ircludo the Ran-
^ ■ ‘ '■’■hind Now UuWersity
J • ’ ”i, iiu that is now about
J, ' ' , ro to tiie printers—on l.ocal
: np • Nnrtii Carolina.
'.J way, if you want tliis latest
\ •: -in, drop us a card at once. The
,1 , i; ! 'isl 19 already making up.
!NE DOLLARS A DAY
.I'vry day sjient in scliool pays the
. ..iac dollars. This is what he loses
4?.\'ci,v day he is absent. ^ n
Here i.s the proof, says Dr. A. Caswell
MUNICIPAL WOOD-YARDS
AVeather around zero tlie last week
and six inches of snow* on tlie ground
this morning. The coa) supply of the
country fifty million tons'short, and not
to be had in the homes of the land at
any price. Timely solemn warnings by
our fuel administrator, and dilly-dallying
here and tliere witli tlie question of mu
nicipal wood-yards!
AA’e have wasted time drawing distinc
tions and splitting differences. AA'e have
been vexing our souls with theories. In
tlie comfort of our firesides we have been
dismissing from our minds a situation
that now' distresses numberless homes
rich and poor. We liave been gumming
tile game, as the boys say in the trenches;
ami now the poor shiver and freeze in our
towns and cities. Of all the horrors of
poverty, surely pincliing cold is the worst.
Notliing in this world is without a
cause for being—not even social unrest;
and vvldli- we lialk bonfires are building
in tile brains of the poor the w’orld
around. Wiio does not know that mucli,
knows little these days. Prudent men
foresee the evil but the foolish pass on
and are punished.
AA’ise men everywhere are more and
more busy with tlie causes of social up
heaval, and it is high time. These causes
must be remov'ed as far as it is humanly
possible to remove them, or w'e shall run
full-tilt into situations that will smash
our theories to smithereens. We can not
afford to parley with academic doctrines
while bitter cold wracks the bodies of
vast multitudes.
Blessed is he tiiat considereth the poor;
the Lord will deliver him in time of
trouble, said David of old, and America
can very well afford to agree with tlie
Psalmist. Wlierever we have not been
willing to consider the conditions that
call for municipal fuel centers, we are
now busy—perhaps—stirring about in
person in the cold and snow getting wood
and coal into tlie homes of the poor and
tlie poverty stricken of the community.
A heavy personal responsibility of tliis
sort certainly rests upon some of us liere
and there, in view of tlie sad and sorry
Christmas season in millions of homes in
our land.
HAMILTONS’ LIFE OF LEE
Tlie Life of Robert E. Lee for Boys and
Girls, by J. G. DeRoulhac and Mary
Thonipmn Hamilton, has just come to us.
It is c’,' inning. It ought to be iu every
home in the land.
Belii- we reproduce Dr. N. W. AA'^alk-
er’s ri' k'w of it in the January number
of tliv 'Rgii Scliool Journal.
i ' E. I./ee was not only a great
Soi; ’•- ■ but a great American, and as
sue!; authors of this little volume have
faitld ’ J .'ind well portrayed him. He is
mad 1 stand out in bold-relief against
tl 10 l a :L -ground of American history as
the 11and superb national character
tliat’vas. The book is well balanced,
scl.o’ -1^., and free from sectionaPsm and
bias. Siioli a volume could not have been
writtei a generation ago nor o , .. I wv-uiy
years ago. Only now is the nation as a
whole : oniing to see the great Confederate
general in proper perspective and to ap-
LEE’S BIRTHDAY, JAN. 19
AViien the future historian shall
come to survey tlie cliaracter of J.ee,
lie will find it rising like a huge moun
tain above the undulating plain of hu
manity and he must lift ids eyes lilgh
toward lieaven to catcli its summit.
He possessed every virtue of other
great commanders without their vices.
He was a foe without hate, a friend
without treachery, a soldier without
oppression, and a victim witliout mur
muring. He was a public officer with
out vices, a private citizen without
wrong, a neiglibor without reproach,
a Christian without hypocrisy, and a
man without guile.
He was Caesar without his ambi
tion, Frederick without his tyranny,
Napoleon without his selfishness, and
AVasliington witliout liis reward.
He was obedient to authority as a
servant, and royal in authority as a
true king.
He was as gentle as a woman in life,
modest and pure as a virgin in
thought, w'atcliful as a Roman vestal
in duty, submissive to law as Socrates,
and grand in battle as Achilles.—
Benj. H. Hill in Address at Atlanta,
1874.
preciate his true greatness and worth as a
national figure.
This story of his career comes at an op
portune time, opportune not only be
cause the Nation is at last ready to count
him among its heroes but because at this
crisis ill our history such an inspiring
story must have telling effect in shaping
and fixing in young Americans higher
and truer ideals of patriotism, of supreme
devotion to duty, trutli and justice. |
Tliis story of his remarkable career is |
told ill a simple and graceful style quite
befitting his noble character, and told
withal in a manner tliat will seize the in
terest and compel tlie attention of young
and old alike. No more admirable juve
nile hook of biography for young Ameri
cans has come to my attention, nor have
I ever seen a more readalile book on Lee.
Any boy or girl will be a better American
for having read and re-read this story.
Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, price
$1.25 net.
WHAT AND WHY WE FIGHT
AVe are not fighting a war, but AYar it
self. AYe have no quarrel with kings and
empires, but are extirpating the cause of
every quarrel lietween ail sovereigns and
sovereignties. This, the supreme conflict
of the ages, is Democracy’s first concerted
attack upon satrapy and liereditary priv-
ilege=-by God’.s will and the strength of
just arms it shall be the last.
AVe, the allied armies of the Free, are
storming the Castle on the Hill, which
alone holds the liighroad against thor
oughfare. No race shall henceforth exact
toll from Civilization to profit its own
despotic ambitions. No little state shall
again tremble in the shadow of political
ogres. No sea shall ever be vassal water
to a bully-flag. No coming generation
shall raise stalwarts. for cannon-fodder
and drain its stores of wealth for Gar
gantuan armaments.
Reason Alone Shall Rule
No power shall blackmail Peace with
the bayonet and defy world-wili from be
hind a hedge of steel. The ghosts of Alex
ander and Attila must be laid—never to
stalk another century, never to lead an
other people to vandalage.
These things we have resolved—so that
reason alone may rule the universe, that
women may breed worthy sons and de
serving daughters in undreading wombs,
that opportunity may be weighed upon
uncheating scales, that thought and
mercy rnay control the hemispheres and
persecution and barbarity be banished.
This is our Cause: who serves it serves
Humanity.—Herbert Kaufman.
THE SOUTH IS AROUSED
The South as a section was not as bel
licose in the earlier stage.9 of the war as
the New England States were. But on
the other hand never has it had many
pacifists; and the relative purity of its
white race stock—either Anglo-Celtic or
French (as in Louisiana)—has not given
to eitlier its urban or its rural communi
ties any of the difficult problems of pre
serving peace and detecting treason that
officials and citizens of states in the mid
west have been facing. Now that the
w'ar is on wdih the United States as a
mighty partner, the South is aroused;
and from that reigon are coming exam
ples whicii may well be imitated in the
North.
University War-WorR
educator and the school, whether the
teacher be white or black and the pupils
Causaaian or Negro, will rise to a higher
plane of importance in the community
life through this particular form of pa
triotic service at a crucial hour in nation
al life; and with the crisis past, commun
ity life never again will be as it was.—
The Christian Science Monitor.
AN EDGE OF STEEL
THE RANGE FINDER
For several days the mysterious letters
‘‘R. F.” have appeared on bulletin
bo»rds and drug store windows in Chapel
Hill, but it was not until yesterday that
the meaning was revealed. “R. F.” it
may be said, stands for “Range Finder,”
a new publication whicli lias just made
its debut on the campus. This magazine,
gotten up somewhat in tlie form of the
New Republic, is published by Dr. Green
law’s class in English composition, Eng
lish 21. It represents the tliemes and
class work of the individual students in
this class.
The magazine of 16 pages, 2-columns to
page, is most attractive mechanically and
is equally attractive in its contents. The
general divisions of tlie magazine are sug
gestive of war-time: From the Trenches,
Orders of tlie Day; Line of March; The
Periscope; Bugles; 21’s. The editorial
committee for this issue consists of N. G.
Gooding, T. E. Rondthaler, AY. H.
Stephenson, R. I). AAYlliams, and AY. M.
York. Other contributors are A'’. S. Bry
ant, Jr. L. B. AVillis, 0. A. Hoyle, E. J.
Crowell, Miss Elizabeth Lay, F. D. Bell,
H. F. Henson, Jr., Leo Carr and AY. 0.
Ea,ton.
The foreword says: If the salt of college
viewpoint hatli not lost its savor we in
tend, interested reader, to season up a
platterfol of these ordinary happenings
of the week, garnisii them round about
with campus sidelights, and through the
agency of the Range Finder, set tliem be
fore you: a disli to be relished. There
are plentiful accounts of the trend of
events as seen by the legislator, the dip
lomat, the financier, the soldier and a
host of others—but not as seen by the
college man. It is his point of view that
wew’ish to present.—Press Report.
Thus the University of North Carolina
has quickly adjusted its extension de
partment so tliat centers are being estab
lished, where students in communities in
all parts of the State will have a choice
between one or all of the following sub
jects of study: Theories of State, Europe
since 1815, South American relations, po
litical idealism in British and American
literature, economic and social aspects 1
th,e war, and the war as reflected in re
cent literature. Correspondence courses,
using a newly combined book called
American Ideals, are being worked \
out for the benefit of isolated individuals
who are or sliould be patriots The Uni
versity library, aided by the faculty, is
distributing to all applicants information
as to books and articles on special sub
jects relating to the war, and is sending
forth literature in pamphlet form, acting
as a distributing agency for the federal
Government and for the many special
patriotic societies that have their propa
ganda headquarters in the large northern
publishing centers. In addition to this,
members of the faculty are writing special
articles for the press of the State, and are
seeing to it that people influential in their
local communities receive bulletins cov
ering latest developments in the politics
and economics of the war.
Lafayette Associations
Last but not least, through the La
fayette Associations, made up 6f parents
and of youth in the educational institu
tions of the State, including the public
schools, the scliool is being made the
community center for “nourishing, de
veloping and crystallizing, through ex
pression, the national spirit of present
and future America.” In other words
the schoolhouse is to be to the North
Carolina of today and of tomorrow what
the town meeting and town house have
been to New England for generations.
The choice of the name of Lafayette for
this ramifying educational movement
hardly needs explanation, but it is none
the less admirable because so obvious
and commendable.
North Carolina’s example, if followed
by the Soutli generally, will have a reflex
influence on the social structure of tliat
reigon which will be incalculable, t'i...
“In France the men are wrought to an
edge of steel, and the women are a line
of fire behind them.”
An edge of steel—a line of fire. The
image of a nation energized for war!
But this is France. And we, the men
and w. men of America, are we too of
steel and fire? Fine as our national tem
per lia- become it falls far short of this.
The war is too remote. No cannon thun
der at ..ur ports. No liustile airplanes
liover in our skies.
In a trench or two along the battle
from there lie and watcli a few to whom
America is liome. They liave already
suffered. They liave paid tlieir first toll
in pri oner.H ami in blood. Tliey are in
C'.iitact with tlie foe. Otliers behind him
lieftr I 111' roar of distant guns, titill more
aie oil die sea, conscious of the vague
presence of an enemy beneath. At home
bu.sy [iieparation goes on among half a
million U) whom the war is still far
away—a thing heard of, waited for, not
yet seen.
And tlie rest? The hundred odd mil
lions of men and women in their homes!
In the main, we go on tlie even tenor of
our way. AYe eat—enough as yet; we
work—a little liarder than last year; we
take many of our accustomed pleasures;
and, save for occasional liad dreams, we
sleep. The thought of war comes to us
not above a dozen times a day.
Tlie til’:ig that will make us steel and
fire dra" s v o.arer every hour. Iu some
few moa ”'.before the leaves are come
and goiv : pon tlie trees, that half mil
lion wi!' 1)0 side by side witli Pershiijg’s
handfnll -it tiie front. Long before that
time ani'iii:';- lialf million will have feft
their k a’ul play for the bustle of the
camps.
Mon-
us. T-
France, i.-
it is hecvji
and b; .>
breathing
feet.” 7
energy ; a
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gin
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It is
in our
adiin
soul.,
to
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NEW BULLETINS
Following its established policy the
General Education Board has just issued
two more of its Occasional Papers. Pa
per No. ” is ■' summary and discussion of
tlie practice among Universities and col-
. ! i -'quiring Latin for the A. B.
degree. The paper was written by Dr.
Charles AY. Eliot, President Emeritus of
Harvard College.
Paper No. 6 is an interesting discussion
of the worth to our modern life of a study
of ancient literature. This term of an
cient literature is most broadly interpret
ed to mean the life of the ancient world
as revealed in its literature. The author
is Viscount Bryce, the former British
Ambassador to the United States.
These papers are for free distribution
and may be secured by writing to the
General Education Board, 61 Broadway,
N. Y. City, asking for Occasional Pa
pers Nos. 5 and 6.
qa
'* Line of Fire
more the war comes hom'^ to
---.’..'.-line, that cutting edge in
;ii)t a remote aud alien thing;
iug, it has become our flesh
. It is “closer to us than
c.ad dearer than hands find
d)raiit currents of sensation and
i a; .: from us to it and from it
.. . .. ves of our whole being
laoiD in it.
more the war comes home.
, ;gcr “the stranger that iswith-
. ’ It imperatively demands
. 10 our inmost tliought.
. . tiie times that try men’s
• a' Tliomas Paine in 1775, and
k-ap fresh into our hearts to-
-j.aii so uuli that he
.i. .,siuivmgs, cas-
... ...jvo .I'oui unexpected
S I., disasters, new loans,
.vndeos—we
shall
A).,'
h.,i-
sh,-
cat.
“ouj ’
we hni
shall I
u.
- / ;all meet tliem—as Prance
■ ? it is impossible that',we
, To tliat higli call to dedi-
'10 :if liberty ai'id right
; ' and fortunes, everything
ii-id everything tliat we are”
“pend.—.1. H. Hanford, N.
that
we
University Faculty.
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