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■1^1 DT ar V 'hcj.pel Hill The news in this publica tion is released lor the press on receipt. MAY 29,1918 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Csuolina for its Bureau of Extension. CHAPEL HHX, N. C. VOL. rV, NO. 27 Ediiorial Board s 0. C. Branson, J. G, deK. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, R. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie. Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the Po.stoffloe at Chapel HIU, Nt C., under the act of August 24,1912. WORTH MILLIONS OF MEN Red Cross Week in the United States is the week beginning; May 20. So by proclamation of the President. It ought to be usliered in on the Sunday before by Red Cross sermons in every clmrcli in the land. The call is for another hundred million dollars. Our quota in North Carolina is $675,000. Everybody down to the tiniest tot ought to have a share in it. A thous and people giving 50 cents apiece is a hundred times better than a hundred people giving 5 dollars each, and the hope is that the people in every com munity will feel this way about it. Twenfy-tive thousand more Red Cross nurses must be recruited and trained, and millions more of dressings, banda ges, and hospital supplies must be pro vided for our armies and for the people in the war stricken countries of onr al lies. must do our part and we will. The Millions of Last Year Seventy-seven million dollars of mercy and healing were spent by the American Red Cross during the year ending April 1. In Foreign relief, $47,326,000, as fol lows: Relief in France $30,936,103 Relief in Belgium. 2,086,131 Relief in Russia 1,243,845 Relief in Roumania 2,676,368 Relief in Italy 3,588,826 Relief in Serbia 875,180 Relief in Great Britain 1,885,750 Relief in otlier Foreign Countries 3,576,300 Relief for prisoners, etc 343,304 Equipment and expenses ... .113,800 In the United States, $8,580,000, as follows: Army base hospitals $54,000 Navy base hospitals 32,000 Medical and hospital service,531,000 Sanitary Service 403,000 Camp Service 6,451,150 Miscellaneous 1,118,743 And $21,806,409 for special purposes, as follows: Uses named by donors $2,520,4o9 Cliapter supplies, home and abroad 15,000,000 Working cash advances... .4,286,000 “The American Red Cross in France has been worth more this winter than a million and a half of American soldiers,” said General Petain. in every country community that we have visited during the last six months. AVe hear it over and over again. And they want an answer. We have therefore asked the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America to send us a hundred copies of their booklet on A AYar- Time Program for Country Churches. We tiave secured these primarily for tlie preachers in charge of country con gregations; but they will also be sent free of charge to anybody else that sends us a postcard request. The other day in Atlanta the delegates of a great church conference shouted themselves hoarse over a minister who had four sons in France. But the women at home are willing to work their fingers to the bone, and to save and lend the last penny if only our preachers will tell them what to do, and how it can be done, church by church. THE COUNTRY RED CROSS The American Red Cross is earnestly calling in advice trom the preachers in charge ot country churches. 'How can the Red Cross get to the 51 million country people of America with its message and mission? ^liow far can the country churclies be 'depended on in the task of civilian relief and home service? How can the country churches become active, cll'ective Re.d Cross agencies? These are the questions the American -Red Cross is asking in letters of inquiry that are now going out by tho usands to thougbtful people everywhere. Will the church authorities, and in particular the country mini.sters, think out their best answers to these questions and send them in at once to Dr. Edmund deS Brunner, 105 East 22nd St., New York City. WAR AND THE CHURCHES Pershing’s army in France already tneans a half million vacant chairs in as nany American homes. In sixty days , nore the number will reach a full million and in six months more a million and a alf. Our boy-) are going just a.s fast as trains and transports can be found to move them to the front. The troop trains pass ing Hamlet a little while ago numbered !5 in a single twenty-four hours. There i-i hardly a country or village jhurch anywhere in the laud, that is not ■epreseiited abroad by one or more sons if its bosom. AVliat can we do for our boys? i.s the luestion that anxious mothers are asking THE GREAT NEIGHBOR Josephus Daniels The Red Cross recognizes neither party, nor race, nor creed. It is world wide in scope and humane in purpose. It has no political nor economic ends to serve. It only asks where it can be help ful to men and women in distress— afflicted by disease, overtaken by some sudden disaster or caught in the ordeal of war. There it fiiida its place and op portunity. There it springs to serve. The Red Cross is the Great Neighbor, it treats every man as a brother, and asks no return. If the world of toiling people is made a little more comfortable, a little happier, a little stronger for the struggle of life through its effort, the Red Cross is content. And while it is not af filiated exclusively with any religious body, it is essentially a Lay Brotherhood and Lay Sisterhood of all denominations, putting in practice the teachings of all religions,—unselfish service and good deeds. The works of mercy which it is banded together to accomplish are the result a nd evidence of its noble sincerity and inspiring faith. In the great emergency of the present war the Red Cross is doubly enlisted. In all it does to help us to win, it is helping to save and maintain those ideals of faithfulness and honor, kindness and loyalty on which its own existence rests. And every man, woman and child who realizes this—realizes the peril we are in —and who can help the Great Cause in in no other way, can at least support the generous efforts of the Red Cross. It is the best equipped agency in the world to bring succor in the day when only organized and well directed help can avail. THE RED CROSS SPEAKS John H. Finley I kneel behind the soldiers’ trench I walk with shambles’ smear and stench. The dead I mourn. I tear the stretcher and I bend O’er Sammy, I’ierre and Jack, and mend AVhat shells have torn. f go wherever men may dare, I go wherever woman’s care And love can live. AVherever strength and skill can bring Surcease to human suffering Or solace give. I am your pennies and your pounds; I am your bodies on their rounds Of pain afar; I am you, doing what you would If you were only where you could—I Your avatar. The cross which on my arm I wear. The flag which o’er my breast I bear, Is but the sign Of what you’d sacrifice for him AA’ho suffers on the hellish rirp • Of war’s red line. OUR MERCIFUL MILLIONS One Hundred Millions for the Red Cros.s and not one penny of it for red tape. The mightiest charity, the noblest and broadest volunteer movement of history. The Red Cross shares no enmities, .serves no Hag but its own. It is God’s agent. His healing, merciful will—the answer of twenty ever-gentler centuries to red barbarism. Twelve million orphan cliildren are wandering about Europe—twelve million frightened little boys and terrorized little girls, sent adrift to sob alone and perish in tlie wastes—to live like swine and die like curs, unless magnificent America ransoms them from death—and worse. flow many of A'OUR pitying dollars will search the desolatations and save them for Tomorrow’s work? The Red Cross needs another Hnndred -Million to glean the battle areas for this precious seed before it rots in mind and body—before grief and liorror and dis ease and unrestraint irrevocably blight thinn. One Hundred Millions to (irevent fam ine and stifle pestilence, to stamp out hideous fevers, to check an earth-wide wave of tuberculosis, to destroy slmddfr- ing filths where verminous plagues feed ami breed and tiireaten all the universe. One Hundred Alillions to fc>und licspi- tals and build rest stations, to sene i ur- j aes to the Front and refugees back, to forw-'ard surgical units and furnish arti ficial limbs, to buy medicines and opera ting instruments, to re-educate the muti lated and show the blind where hope still shines. One Hundred Millions to maintain communication with detention camps, to provide war prisoners with food and de cencies, to take messages out and bring letters in, to negotiate comforts and privileges for tire captured, to buy blank ets for them and clothes and books and tobacco. One Hundred Millions for No Man’s Land—for stretchers and ambulai^e.s, for anesthesia and bandages and antiseptics; to train nurses and orderlies, to outfit and transport skilled specialists, to make sure that a dear one shall have a clean, sw'eet cot and a sweet, clean girl from home beside it. One Hundred Millions to keep the world sound and wholesome, while arm ies of Justice hold it safe.—Herbert Kaufman. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 148 A WAR SUBSTITUTE A prominent school man in this state wrote in to us the other day saying it had been necessary to close his high school because of a lack ot teachers, a condition caused by the AVar. Another teacher wrote in that if she could not find re- numerative work during the summer months she would be compelled to leave the teaching profession and get into some sort of work that will yield a sufficient in come to live on throughout the year. Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the number of available teachers next year will be much smaller than ever. For one cause or another the ranks of the teachers are being thinned, and there seems small chance that these ranks can be re filled readily and quickly. A Suggestion Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, makes a suggestion as to one means by which the places of teach ers who have resigned can be filled and the suggestjon is most applicable to this State. AVe iiave a great number of wc^iien who have had successful expe rience in teaching but who are now en- ' gaged in home-making. These ex-teach- I era may be called into the service of the ' schools and thus render a genuine patri otic service. Ample opportunity will be offered by the State Boards of Examiners and Institute Conductors for the granting of the necessary certificates and the sup plementary income will help mightily in these times of high prices. A DifRculty Met Only one difficulty stands in the way, so far as we can see. A few school boards have passed rules and regulations forbid ding the employment of local residents or married women as teachers. Dr. Claxton suggests that in all such communities a supplementary or emergency rule be passed making this regulation regarding the employment of married women and local residents a law of none effect for the period of the War. Certainly this is a suggestion worth se rious consideration. Unless some effec tive means of meeting the unavoidable conditions is found at once, the situation will grow worse instead of better. The problem ot attending to the educational needs of our boys and girls is second only to the problem of winning the war, and as we are straining every possible nerve to punish the Hun so we must take every possible means within our power to keeo our our schools open and running at maximum capacity. THENATION’SSUPREMETASK The nation's one job is to make war with every ounce of material, moral, phy sical and financial strength. Nothing else counts now. AA'ar, war, vigorous, aggressive, all- powerful war, is our one supreme work. To that end the fullest measure of the nation’s life must be given and ujron if the utmost potentialities of our resources be concentrated. Banish everything else but the things which arm us with the power to strike for life and liberty. Produce Everything This means crowd every coal mine to the utmost of its capacity, run every fur nace and steel plant as though the na tion’s life depended on it, which it does; build every ship, big and small, steel and wood, for which men and materials can be found, and count not the cost; run every cotton mill to its limit. Produce every bale of cotton, every bushel of grain that can be grown, raise livestock and poultry, and keep on rais ing them, for our allies are hungry, and soon will starve if we cannot supply them bread and meat. Alake guns, the biggest and the best; produce explosives without limit; crowd all the potentialities of chemistry to the last notch of human energy; expand rail roads ; build permanent highways; make money with all possible energy, and turn it into liberty Bonds and into Red Cross or kindred interests. You Dare Not ShirK AA^ork, work, work, and keep on work ing, be you day laborer, mechanic clerk, banker, manufacturer, merchant, capi talist, preacher or teacher, or whatever may be your occupation. All that you have, all tliat you prize in life, the honor of womanhood —your women, be it re membered—the safety of the prattling baby, the child yet unborn, the religion of Christ, civilization, your own America, land of liberty, the home of the free, are now staked upon how you meet your in dividual responsibility in this, earth’s su- premest hour. You cannot, you dare not shirk. You cannot throw the burden upon others. From the women, the babies, your coun try, your God, comes the call to you in thunder tones to do your duty and do it novv.—Captain Tilghman. OUR NEED TO STEP LIVELY Our share of war sayings stamps in Orange county is $331,400. Up to May 1, the sales receipts reported by the cen tral clearing office of the county were on ly $51,331.06 or $61,800 at maturity values. AA'e must sell $270,000 worth of these stamps before the year ends, or we fall into the list of slacker counties. , The postofficeieaJes to May 1 were as follows: Hillsboro Chapel Hill Efland Cedar Grove University Teer - ^ Carrboro $34,755.48 - 9,188.92 - 3,294.56 - 3,014.93 506.13 - 355.80 - 215.24 ant to individuals and communities. The counties that lead in atamj) sales so far are counties where the county school superintendent has been most ac tive, as in Richmond and Beaufort; or the school principal as in Shelby, Elizabeth City, AA’'hiteville, and Stony Point. Or where the AVomen’s Clubs have been taking an active part in the campaign; or the postmasters and the rural mail carriers have been busy outside their reg ular duties, or a Sunday school superin tendent as at Clyde in Haywood county. Cannot we get briskly busy in Orange about this matter? Manifestly some parts of the county are dead asleeri, or nearly so—or apparently so. And they are about to fall into dis grace. AA^ar Savings Societies have been or ganized in 46 schools of Orange, bat we have no reports from them in detail. Our women and children can put this thing across if only they will. ■ A full fourth of the Chapel Hill sales really belongs to Carrboro, whose people have bought from one interested, active, private citizen over $2800 wortj;i. On the other hand' the sales at the Hillsboro of fice on May 1 were $7,715 more than the above table shows. So Mr. Strudvvick phones us this morning. Everywhere popular interest has been sluggish because in Orange as every- were else the liberty bond sales have been on a grand, spectacular scale. The more important matter of AA'^ar Savings Stamps has not caught the attention of the public. Besides, 25 cent stamps and $4.15 cer tificates appeal to the little fellows with small means. The small fish have not yet gotten into the fry. Why We Need to Wake Up AA’’e say more important; we mean more important to the vast majority of the people in every community who have never saved anything, who ought to form the habit, and who now have the loftiest possible motive for doing so— the children in our homes, the careless people on wages and s.ilaries who live from day to day, from hand to mouth with notliing ahead, whose silver always seems to be quicksilver. The liberty bond buyers already have thrift habits, impulses, and capabilities; the war savings stamp buyers are the vast multitude that ought to develop thrift habit;-. That’s why the saving) stamp cam paign is more impc riant; no 1 more im- porta-it to the (ause, but more import- WHITEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL The pupils of the state high school at Whiteville down in Columbus ha\e bought and marketed over $10,500 worth of war savings stamps to date. Tley have set $20,000 as a mark for May 31. AA’herever a school has a live principal it has a great record in patriotic activi ties. How about your school? BEAUFORT COUNTY IS BUSY The last report of the AVar Savings ; Stamp director for the state shows no war savings societies in Beaufort County, no limit club members, and thrift stamp sales up to April 1 amounting to less than $12,000 for the whole county. I But Mr. Carl Goerch, editor of the AVashingtofl Daily News, writes us that war savings societies have been organized in every school community, and that in numerable meetings have been held at which prominent local citizens have vol unteered to explain the issue to the peo ple. Beaufort has a hard working organ ization and is nfslacker county, he says; and we can easily believe all he says about these noble people. AA’e should be glad to have the number of W. S. S. in Beauf jrt, the record of sales by tlie various schools, the number of limit club members in tlie county, and the total sales to datd. The various counties anct communities of North Carolina need fuller reports in detail, both for encouragement and re- biike. AA'‘e’ll have to wake up if we take 50 million dollars worth of war stamps in this state by Jan. 1; The sales so far re ported amount to less than two and a half million dollars.
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