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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Oirolina
for its Bureau of Eortension.
FEBRUARY 13, 1918
CHAPEL HHJU N. C
VOL. IV, NO. 12
EdUorial Board . E. C. Branson, J. W. deK. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, B. H. Thornton, G. M. MoKie.
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the Postolfice at Chapel Hill, N. C., under the act of August 34,
1912.
DEMOCRACY AT SCHOOL
Kigbt of tiie social science associations
of tlie United States were in session in
Piiiladelphia during the Christmas holi
days.
Everywhere it came out in the discus
sions, says Deardorff in The Survey,
that civic and political education for the
mass of people is the sine qua non of the
democracy to which the Tinited States is
now committed, and tliat tills educa
tion is to be socio economic rather than
historico-juridical.
And so it appears that our doctrinaires
have at last come to realize a fundamen
tal necessity in our developing democracy.
We do not mean to tie impertinent when
we say that the State and County Clubs
at the University got there first.
For three years they have been hard at
work on the assumption that effective
cifcizensliip is based on first-hand ac
quaintance with the economic and social
problems of the home county and the
home state, and on competent interpre
tation of nearby puzzles in the light of
world-wide condilions and universal
laws of life and business. The Club
Sc.lirdules and Year-Books tell in detail
the fltory of their efforts to prepare for
iaUiUigent, effective citizenship. They
lis.ye been trying to escape the “econom- ,
i-. illiteracy" that Mr. Vanderlip says j
A.-'r-rica is afflicted with. And they have |
Ir'ini going at this difficult task right- I
eo.j foremost, as the Georgia Crackers
say.
Local Essays at Democracy
Wfiat these University students have
hvvm doing here in their club studies
th MC last tliree years is exactly what
similar clubs ought to be doing in every
coiwty and community in the state.
Whicli is to say, Local Study-Clubs com-
of sturdy, public spirited people
oogid' to lie working at the local prob-
lewiu of business and life in a hundred
comities. This is the^suggestion of R. 1).
\J. Connor, our state historian; but
since we threshed out this idea in his
othce some months ago, the suggestion
has cxime from a score or more of other
devoted citizen.? of North Carolina.
And so the Bureau of Extension of the
University has published a bulletin of 70
jingofi showing in detail (1) What Local
Stody-Clubs are, (2) The plans and
methods of organization, and (3) The
riirijw and variety of local problems that
clulletige mastery and constructive effort.
Thixie typical club studies are offered in
ration.
This bulletin which will be going into
tie' mails next week makes it easily pos
sible for alert (leople in any community
t', Imnoh-up for self-tuition in essential
(leiw icratic concerns.
Local Study-Clubs
Tlie title of this bulletin is lascal Study
Du.hs: 1 Issay.s at Uemocracy. The chaji-
-teiM are (1) Wliat sucli Clubs are—ideals,
filmui, purposes, methods, and details of
V'lrli, i2) Vitalizing County History, (3)
Vitalizing School Activities, (4) Home
s'-. nV> Studie.s at the University, (S)
rif-eh'AS in County Government and Coun
ty Affairs. 16) A laical Tax-List Sthdy,
(T) Rroperty Values and Taxes in Uan-
hdpL, (B) Our Fee and Salary .Systems in
N .vUi Carolina, (9) Tlie Schools and the
G;nm>u-at-War, (a) The Teacher’s Chance
Hvr.ve the Flag, (b) University War
Lectures, and (c) University War-Iaiaf-
1 vou want this bulletin drop us a post-
cjr? at oiice. It will be sent without
to anybody that applies for it
vjvithm the state, and for 25c a copy to
s.n.ifl4ody outside the state.
coarse of the year, this meeting to be
called, for the time being, a Lafayette
Association. No other organization is
necessary than the appointment of the
chairman from one society and a secre
tary from anotlier and a program com
mittee representing all school literary
organizations.
3. The suggestions made in the Uni
versity War leaflet may be applied also
to meetings of parents’ associations, joint
meetings of women’s clubs, etc. Speci
men programs will be supplied by the
Bureau of Extension to any schools or
organizations desiring to follow out these
suggestions.
4. In the regular work of the school,
or in connection with the work of some
school organization, or in a specially
formed reading circle there should be a
copy of some such book as ‘‘American
Ideals,’' published by Houghton Miffiin
Company, Boston, “American Patriotic
Prose,’’ published by D,. 0. Heath &
Company, Boston, “The Battle Line of
Democracy,” published by the Commit
tee on Public Information, Washington,
or the community leaflets pnblislied by
the Bureau of Education, Washington.
A full list of such books with suggestions
for tlieir use will be supplied by the Uni
versity Bureau of Extension to tiiose who
are interested.
5. It is suggested that a part of the
program in any meeting such as has
been suggested under the various head
ings shall consist of reports of the va
rious community activities that are asso
ciated with war work, such as, for ins
tance, the Red Cross, the Junior Red
Cross, various relief organizations and
otlier work for community welfare. By
this means coordination and unity of ef
fect may be gained.
6. It will 'oe observed from the above
suggestions that the Lafayette Associa
tion seeks more the expression of an
ideal than the addition of a new and
complicated organization to those already
in existence. An example of the sort of
thing that is contemplated may be found
in the visit of the British and the French
Commissions to the tomb of Washington,
or the words of General Pershing in
Paris before the Lafayette monument,
“Lafayette, we are here!”
7. By some such simple means as are
outlined above we may accomplish the
following results: (1) to give expression
to our feeling for France and all that
France stands for in this trying hour,
(2) to see clearly that in paying tliis debt
to France we are doing just what Lafay
ette himself did at tlie birth of our na
tion, and (3) to realize that it is neces
sary for us to get into the minds of
American citizens a knowledge of what
American ideals are, of their significance
to ourselves, and of their relations to the
struggle that is now going on tliroughout
the world.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
George Morrow Mayo,
Gunmate U. S. Navy
Here’s to the blue of the wind swept
North,
When we meet on the fields of
France!
May the spirit of Grant be with you
all
As the Sons of the North advance.
And, here’s to the Gray of the sun-
kissed South,
When we meet on the fields of
France!
May the spirit of Lee be with you all
As the Sons of the South advance.
And, here’s to the Blue and Gray as
one,
When we meet on the fields of
France!
May the spirit of God be with us all.
As the Sons of the Flag advance.
What’s the answer? We leave it to
you, Have you our new Year-Book? If
you want this University Bulletin, let us
know it at once before the edition is ex
hausted. It goes free of charge to those
that write for it.
Six high school principals have order
ed supplies of it for their senior classes.
They are pronounced and emphatic in
stating the value of “Wealth and Wel
fare in North Carolina.”
Is it worth adopting as a required
text-book in the t'rofessional reading
courses of our public school teachers?
We are hoping tliat our State aiitliorities
will tliink so.
A note from one of our splendid tarm
women comes to town today calling for
material for hospital shirts. ‘ ‘I shall un
dertake to make 100,’’ she says, “before
garden crops and fruit come on ' to be
taken care of.” Think of that—for a
busy farm woman 1 It means an average
of about one shirt a day for the next
three months or so.
Blessings on the women—the town
women and their sister women in the
country, in the greatest charity Christen
dom has yet discovered.
THE DEBATING UNION
More than 250 high schools have en
rolled in the High .School Debating Un
ion of North Carolina for this year’s con
test. The query which is to be dis
cussed is. Resolved, That Congress
should enact a law providing for the
compulsory arbitration of industrial. dis
putes.
A great interest is being taken in the
High School Debating Union throughout
the State and indications are that the
contest to be held this spring will be one
of the most comprehensive and instruct
ive in the history of the Union. This is
the sixth of the State-wide contests of the
Union, the debates having been inaugu
rated in the college year, 1912-13.
The query of last year was. Resolved,
That the Government should own and
operate the railways. The Waynesville
hiah school debaters, representing the
affirmative side of the query, were victo
rious ill the final debate and were award
ed the Aycock Cup.
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A MILLION ON DEPOSIT
The tliree banks in Lee now have
cool million dollars on deposit, says
Sanford Express.
Never in tlie history of the county lias
tliere been as much money on deposit in
tlie local banks or in tlie hands of the
people generally. High prices and good
crops have brought this great prosperity
to our people. The farmers can sell
everything they raise on their farms at
higher prices than they ever received for
farm produce before. The manufactur
ers of Sanford and the other towns of the
county are selling their output at high,
prices. Our merchants have had a
splendid trade this year. Wages are
higher than ever before and the people
generally are enjoying prosperity.—The
Sanford Express.
cai?ayette associations
Th ' following suggestions have been
THE TEACHERS WANT IT
The superintendents and teacliers of
the State are sending in a steady stream
of letters for the War-Time Special is
sues of the University News Letter tliese
days.
We iiave added to our regular mailing
list nearly 5,000 names in the last eight
weeks, and letters from 425 teachers are
stacked on our desk in waiting.
This word of earnest request for 6ur
readers who cliange tlieir post office ad-
dresse.s—to preacliera and teachers in
particular because tliey are most careless
and most need it: Drop us a postcard
when you move, that is to say if you still
want the paper. Don’t—please don’t—
fail to do it, because your paper goes to
waste until the postmaster notifies us of
your removal.
Four hundred and twenty-five people
are now waiting for the paper you waste
in this way.
RICHER BY 275 MILLIONS
The value of farm crops in Nortli Garo-
lina in 1917 was 145 million dollars more
than the total for 1916, and 275 million
dollars more than the total for 1909.
In eigiit years the money value of our
crops lias risen from 142 millions to 417
million dollars. Here is an average an
nual increase of nearly 40 millions a
year in crop values alone.
It sounds like Die abundant corn, oil,
and wine of Joel’s prophecy, in his day
the revival of material prosperity was the
forunner of a great spiritual awakening.
We wonder if it is a prelude to a great
spiritual awakening in North Carolina
today—to a great revival of interest
children and schools and churches,
books and libraries and tlie larger mean
ings of time and eternity.
Our abounding prosperity is a great
problem for the ciiurch. The church
must either spiritualize tlie wealth of the
world, or the wealth of the world will
materialize the church. Tlie.se are the
horns of a great dilemma.
The President holds this opinion of Mr.
Baker, and the country at large can well
afford to agree with liim.
of es-
• concerning ways and mean.?
trj.h1ii.hing I.afayette Associatiora;
I lave A patriotic meeting once
tiie hiffh school devoted
i
a
in Die high school devoted to
ono'. i.il prO‘grains about Lafayette, french
.virvico to America, England in its rela-
ti jini io democracy and to the United
£ The literary societies in the high
fKlioot or the college may appropriately
hold n joint meeting several times in the
A TEXT-BOOK ON CAROLINA
Ought any liigh school graduate or any
public school teaclier to know any less
about the State than the new North
Carolina Club Year-Book can teach
him?
A high scliool principal and a county
school superintendent fire this inquiry at
us 111 the same mail in almost
these words.
COUNTY RED CROSS WORK
The town women have everywhere
been busy knitting sweaters, socks, and
helmets, and making bandages, napkins,
and hospital kits, and tliey liave been
more in the' public eye than the farm
women in the remote country homes.
Blit the country women have also been
busy in Red Cross work. If they have
been busier in otiier counties than in
Orange then it is a glorious chapter of
patriotism the country women of
Carolina are writing witli their
of mercy.
Some day when the record is complete
exactly we sliall tell the story of country
i Gross work in Orange in full detail.
Nori;h
needles
Red
A JOB FOR SUPERMEN
Not merely training an army but train
ing and shaping a nation for war is
President Wilson’s job—to use his own
phrase; and to do in' eighteen months
what Germany spent forty years in doing
is a job so huge tliat it staggers the im
agination. It is a job not for men but
for supermen, and no country turns out
more than half a dozen of them in as
many centuries.
It is the job of organizing a hundred
million people with two hundred and
fifty billions of wealth scattered over
three and a half million square miles.
The change from a peace to a war basis
in the United States means an upheaval
in life and business so radical in nature
that mistakes are inevitable. Mr. Wil
son admits them.
The war end of the job—that alone—
involves a payroll of two million names
and a business of nine billion dollars.
It is a business many times bigger than
the biggest private business in America.
And mistakes have been made. Air.
Baker confesses them.
What Good Men Will Say
It takes rare greatness of soul to con
fess mistakes. Robert E. Lee did it at
Gettysburg. After the assault of that
fateful third day, he said to General Wil
cox, “It’s not your mistake, it is my
mistake; and all good men must help me
out of it.’ ’
Ami so will all good men now say to
the men in executive authority who are
struggling with the difficulties of trans
portation, with food and fuel shortage
for ourselves and our Allies, with the ob
stacles offered by a cruel winter, with
the critical necessity for men and war
materials on the fighting front—the
struggling most of all against delays in
this year of destiny.
So they will say and so they will do-
all good men.
Instead of being set by the ears, Y'asli-
ington ought to be set unitedly upon the
job of winning this war.
Jockeying for political advantage now,
when time is so precious, is quite of a
sort with Nero’s fiddling while Rome
burned; and not impossibly it stands a
chance of being just as famous or as in
famous for a thousand years or so.
Superman Results
Never before in the history of time has
a nation been so quickly mobilized for
war as ours, or an army of its size raised,
equipped, trained and prepared for
battle. So say our President and our
Secretary of War. And it’s true.
The tragic necessity now is time, and
Mr. Baker’s time is being wasted in Star
Chambers, exactly when he needs it else
where for tlie superman job tliat he is
working at in superman ways.
THE WOMEN’S DIVISION
An important part of the work of the
University Bureau of Extension has been
recognized by the creation of a special
division—the Division for Women.
This does not separate women and their
needs from men and their needs, on the
contrary it gives emphasis to the fact that
women have a place in the work of a
great state University. Any institution
which would today serve the people of
the State must acknowledge with Presi
dent Graham that “women are people.’'
That the women of North Carolina look
to their state university for help and in
formation is evident by the fact that
many scores of individuals are in con
stant touch with the correspondence de
partment.
Women in all ranks of life are begin
ning to write to the University when they
want information along any line, and the
range of inquiries is limited only by the
variety of the activities of women of
today.
Mrs. Lingle in Charge
In a sincere desire to meet these needs
more fully the University has established
the Division for Women, and placed Mrs.
Thomas W. Lingle.in charge of it. Mrs.
Lingle’s connection with the women of
North Carolina is already vital and inti
mate. She is well fitted to understand
and even to foresee their desires. With
the resources of the University at her dis
posal, tlie head of this division will be
able to meet the present demands and to
direct the unfolding of plans for stimu
lating and encouraging North Carolina
women along the lines of higher educa
tion, social welfare and individual re
search.
The hearty welcome that Airs. Lingle
has received in the University circle
proves that Dr. Graham is not the only
one who has a dream of the future use
fulness of the institution to the mothers
and daughters of North Carolina.
The women of the state will not be slow
in their appreciation of this definite effort
to meet them more than half w'ay in their
search for information and encourage
ment. Tlie help that is offered is abso
lutely gratuitous, and is not limited to
those already known or enrolled in study
courses. Any woman or girl is invited to
write to Airs. Lingle about any phase of
her activities. A separate office has been
given over to this work and each request
will receive consideration.
The generous cooperation of other de
partment specialists, the resources of the
library and her own wide experience witli
women and tlieir work will enable Mrs.
Lingle to put each inquirer in touch witii
the source of the desired information.
Studying Latin America
Over four hundred club women are en
rolled in the Latin America Study Course
which was published ikst year in booklet
form by' Dr. Pierson with the cooperation
of Airs. Lingle and Miss Roberson. Other
courses for club and private study are
now in course of preparation. Club
women are invited .to offer suggestions
both as to the topics and the methods
which would interest them for use now
and next winter.
Airs. Lingle asks that in writing for
suggestions and help for club papers,
members will give date of the club meet
ing, and will also write early for this as
sistance. It is well also to give some idea
of the entire program for the meeting as
well as the topic for the specific paper,
and to state what material is at hand for
reference.
The correspondence, however, is not
limited to clubs, but is especially directed
to serve rural women, individual readers,
teachers, college graduates, and commu
nity workers.
The News letter is offering to give
some space in its columns from time to
time to this Division for Women. AVe
are therefore sending this copy to a large
circle of women not hitherto on the mail
ing list. All that you have to do to get
your name permanently on the list of
subscribers is to mail a jiost card to the
News Letter or to Mrs. Lingle giving your
name and address very plainly. You
may also add the words ‘ ‘ Woman’s Di
vision” if you are interested in this
8}iecial feature.