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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
JULY 17, 1918
CHAPEL HULL, N. C.
VOL. IV, NO. 34
Bditorial Board . E, C. Branson, J. G. deK. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, R. H. Thornton, G. M. McKie.
Entered as second-olass matter November 14,1914, at the Postoffloe at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912.
A HARD YEAR AHEAD
111 the fiscal year that ends this month
tlie Government will have spent about
twelve billion dollars. In the coming
year it will undertake to spend at least
twenty.
These are no mere figures on a printed
page. They are no mere problems in
bankers’ finance, to be disposed of by
clever bookkeeping entries. They are ex
igent and intimate personal notice that a
hundred million people must do at least
one-half better in the opening year than
than they did in the closing one.
We got through the closing year very
easily. We practiced, more or less, the
most obvious and convenient economies
—those that involved only some little
bother in changing our habits, like eating
corn and rye bread instead of wheat, but
left us on the whole, living quite as agree
ably as before.
Our rich folk cheerfully adopted the
new fashion of given fewer parties, as
they would have adopted any other fash
ion not disagreeable in itself. But we
have not noticed anybody who got so j
close to a war regimen that he barked his '
shin against it. And that was not actually |
needed. With such easy sacrifices as we ;
made the country got through the year
adequately and creditably. Probably
there is no point in barking your shin
until the actual need is at hand.
These Treasury figures certify the need.
They are notice that we are now coming
under a more rigorous war regimen, com
parable to that of Europe. AVe must pro
duce and save one-half more. It means
you. It means every person capable of
directing his production and consump
tion. It is an exigent personal message.
Overhaul your budget now.—Saturday
Evening Post.
PINT-CUP PATRIOTISM
The other day a middle aged man
stepped up to the postoflice window, paid
in his $4.17 and received therefor a five
dollar War Savings Certificate. As he
settled it safely in his inside pocket he
remarked to the clerk, “I consider that
just so much charity. I never expect to
see my money any more, but win or lose
I’m willing to go that much on your war
stamp proposition.”
Five dollars, you see, is the value he
sets on the civilization his forefathers
fought and died for. Freedom for Amer
ica and humanity is worth just $4.17 to
him—just that and no more.
Two hundred and sixty-six men in his
county are daring to give their lives. He
does not have privilege of being counted
in this number, but he offers four dollars
and a few odd cents instead—and calls it
charity.
The Measure of a Man
The measure of a man is his power of
response to the challenge of great issues.
The measure of this man is fewer dollars
than you count on the fingers of one
hand.
And he flings these few paltry dollars
at humanity in this hour of extreme peril,
about as he’d flip a few pennies at a beg
gar.
Civilization is ablaze. The world is
afire. The fate of Christendom hangs
trembhug in the balance. This man is
living in the most momentous hour in the
history of mankind since Christ hung on
the Cross.
And all it means to him is $4.17.
They say he’s worth $10,000. The fact
is he has $10,0Q0 or thereabouts in prop
erties of one sort or another; but he s
■worth loss than five dollars.
But there are others whose measure is
smaller than that. They cannot or will
not fight. And they will not save and
lend!
Not one cent as yet! To the Bed Cross,
the Army Y. M. C. A. or any other pa
triotic purpose!
Is it you? or you?
What is your measure?
The rim of a pint-cup or the rim of the
nniverse?
WAR AND THE UNIVERSITY
The University of North Carolina has
been designated by the AVar Department
as a Keserve Officers’ Training Corps, the
training to begin with the opening of the
University this Fafl.
It has just been announced from Wash
ington that Lieutenant-Colonel G. AV. S.
Stevens, U. S. A., has been selected as
Commandant to be in charge of the
Training Corps and will report in person
within the next few days. Captain J.
Stuart Allen, of the Princess “Pat’s”
Canadian Light Infantry, and Mr. J. A’.
AA’hitfield will also be back in September
to help in the military training.
Under the provisions of this new classi
fication students at the University taking
the full military course will be eligible to
appointment as commissioned officers in
the army. Students taking the full course
will also receive compensation during
their senior year.
Engineering Courses
In response to urgent appeals from the
government to speed up the training of
technical men, the University of North
Carolina will offer a special three year
war-course in Engineering leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Science in Engin
eering. This course will provided three
ways in which a young man may obtain
a thorough intensive training in engin
eering..
In the first year all students will take
the same courses in the fundamental
sciences. Specialization will begin in the
second year, one group of courses prepar
ing for service in the engineer’s corps,
another for the signal corps, and a third
for steam enginering in the Navy.
These courses will not only furnish a
fine opportunity for young men who have
a liking for science to train themselves
for immediate practical service in the
Army and Navy, but the times imme
diately following the end of the w'ar will
demand trained men in greater numbers
than ever before.
GIVE WHAT YOU HAVE
Maybe you’re a millionaire.
That isn’t much.
Money is only a token.
But give your million.
A young man said to me: I wish I had
more to give. I can only offer my life.
And in his eyes there was a look that
might have been in the eyes of the Maid
of Orleans—that might have gone out
through the darkness from the Cross on
Calvary.
He was just a boy—as young as would
be accepted for over-sea service.
His resources had never been w'eighed,
inventoried or tested.
He just put everything personal in a
lump and gave it all—regretting it was
not enough.
He didn’t call or feel it a sacrifice.
Rather, a glad tribute to world-democ
racy; a consecrated investment in hu
manity.
He had so little—no great, accepted
talent; no envied, golden treasure; no
swelling sense of importance—just his
life and youth and devotion—and these
he gladly gave.
Armies so constituted don’t go out to
defeat, nor come back to betrayal.
What Are We Giving?
AYhat have we to give?
A desire to do may be worth more than
dollars.
The spirit counts.
Maybe your life is only a remnant.
Maybe most of it has gone into other
things.
Give what you have—experience, en
thusiasm, wisdom.
All these are needed.
Patience, forbearance, fortitude and
faith.
These may be needed more.
Search yourself!
There always are forgotten things, like
courage, hurrying initiative, resolution.
There always are hidden things, like
pride and honor and renunciation.
You may be poor in dollars and rich
in qualities.
All are needed.
There’s a war to be won.
Or a world to be lost.
Search yourself.
Give what you have!—George E. Bow
en, of the A’igilantes.
THE HOME FIRES
Lena Gilbert Ford
They were summoned from the hillside.
They were called in from the glen,
And the country found them ready
At the stirring call for men.
Let no tears add to^their hardship,
As the soldiers pass along.
And although your heart is breaking.
Make it sing this cheery song.
Keep the home fires burning,
AVhile your hearts are yearning.
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home;
There’s a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining.
Turn the dark cloud inside out.
Till the boys come Home.
Over seas there came a pleading,
“Help a Nation in distress!”
And we gave our glorious laddies;
Honour made us do no less;
For no gallant Son of Freedom
To a tyrant’s yoke should bend.
And a noble heart must answer
To the sacred call of “Friend.”
A JOB OR A JAIL
The jig’s up for the loafer, no matter
what his income is. President AA’ilson is
recommending that every state legislature
pass the Alaryland anti-loafing law, and
what the President says ^oes with the
American people these days.
AVork or fight or go to jail, he says.
The Government makes that manda
tory upon every man within the draft age.
Self-respect makes it mandatory upon
every man of every age.
If, perchance, there are any idlers and
loafers continuing to lead lives of useless
ness in your town despite war needs for
man power, you can do a great deal to
cause them to change their course. You
can make a complaint to the sheriff or
chief of police, or any officer, charging
them with vagrancy.
If the vagrancy laws are not being
strictly and unrelentingly enforced in your
community, yours is one of the very few
places in the United States where those
laws are not enforced. You can help to
see that they are enforced. You can see
that loafers in your section get a job or
go to jail. Every loafer put to work re
leases a man who may help on the farm.
Farmers need hands. Soldiers must
have food. Farmers can’t produce food
unless they have help. The loafer is aid
ing the enemy whether he means to do
so or not. The man so dead of spirit as
not to realize his patriotic obligation must
be forced to see it.
Give the loafers of your town a straight-
from-the-shoulder understanding of their
alternatives. This is no time for word
mincing or baby talk.
Make him go to work or go to jail.—
Federal AVeekly News Letter.
WAKE AND NEW HANOVER
AA'^ake voted on a county-wide issue of
an additional 30 cents for schools, in or
der, as was fully shown, to supply the
schools with teachers, and keep up the
education of the children. The issue was
overwhelmingly defeated; as a result,
some of the schools will not open at all
next year in AA'^ake, and all the schools
will be sadly crippled.
New Hanover voted on a quarter mil
lion dollar bond issue, and an additional
tax of 10 cents for schools. The result
was a decision for schools. The schools
of New Hanover will be greatly improved,
the terms lengthened, and the best teach
ers will seek employment there. Intelli
gence will thrive and prosper, and all the
blessings and tremendous profits of intel
ligence will accrue to tlie people of New
Hanover.
In AA'ake, the schools will drag, and
eke out a miserable existence. The bet
ter class of teachers will leave, and
untrained, unskilled, time-serving teach
ers will fill their places. Ignorance will
prosper, and accelerate its wonderful
powers of self-perpetuation. Poverty will
increase, the helpless will go unschooled,
untrained and undeveloped, and in the end
rise up to curse those who blighted their
chances in life. The state and the sa-
tion will go without their powers for good
and be not richer but poorer by reason of
the factional strife of AA’'ake. God be
thanked for counties like New Hanover
to offset such counties as AA’’ake.—H. B.
Smith in the New Bernian.
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
LETTER SERIES NO. 153
EDUCATION IN PATRIOTISM
Education in j)atriotism and its agen
cies, official and unofficial, engaged in
in promoting patriotic work in the schools
are reviewed in Teachers’ Leaflet No. 2,
just issued by the Bureau of Education of
the Department of the Interior.
The work of the Council of National
Defense, the National Security League,
the National Comilaittee of Patriotic So
cieties, the National Board for Historical
Service, the Bureau of Education, the Na
tional Education Association, and the
Committee on Public Information, is de
scribed in some detail so that teachers
and school officers may have ready at
hand abundant sources of help,in spread
ing the teaching of true Americanism.
The Btisiness of Schools
It is the contribution of American j
schools, and particularly of colleges and
universities, says the leaflet, to further the
teaching of patriotism in the present
emergency, and the opportunity to ren
der such service has everywhere been
eagerly accepted. Since, however, a num
ber of organizations of national scope,
some governmental, others privately sup
ported, are now endeavoring to work
through the schools of the country in the
cause of education in patriotism, consid-
siderable confusion has arisen in the
minds of school men regarding the origin
and purpose of the various agencies at
work. This leaflet aims to put them in
touch with the material available and to
describe the work of the leading organiza
tions already in the field.
Copies of Education in Patriotism will
be sent on application to the Commis
sioner of Education, AA'ashington, D. C.
WHEN TOWNS WAX FAT
The old fashioned chamber of com
merce with its cash bonuses and free fac
tory sites, is rapidly passing away. In
stead of grabbing business from each
other, towns are beginning to look to the
country, to growing corn and wheat and
hay. Here. lies the opportunity; for the
great city, strange as it may seem, is out
in the country, hidden in the fertility of
the soil.
A successful hay campaign will bring
factories to the town. Hay means beef
and pork, which beckon the packing house
and storage plant.
More corn means cereal n.ils, glucose
factories, starch factories. Flo'ir mills
locate in wheat producing aerrirnis.
Creameries follow the dairy cow and the
truck patch calls for the can!\;i!g factory.
Towns are the natural evolution and
growth of necessity-places to store and
distribute the world’s surplus products
through the channels of commerce. There
is but one road to permanent city build
ing—that road leads to the farm. Busi
ness is so sympathetic, so senstive to crop
producing, that the forecast of a poor
wheat or corn crop effects the markets of
the world.
AA’hen the harvest fields smile, towns
wax fat, and factories increase the pay roll.
Corn, wdieat and hay, beef, pork and
poultry—these are the soil builders, the
home builders, the builders of great cities.
Let us have more chambers of agricul
ture and commerce and fewer commercial
clubs.—International Harvester Co.
HOME-GUARD DUTIES
AA’’e are called upon to buy war stamps
because, as President AVilson says, this is
a war of nations, not of armies, and every
one in the land must do his share. So far,
more than 2,000,000 men have gone to the
Army and Navy and 1,000,000 more
are to join before August 1. These 3,000,
000 men give themselves as their donation
to the war. The remaning 97,000,000
people left at home must give something
else as their share.
This savings pledge gives the stay-at-
home an opportunity for service. AA’'e
are asked to pledge ourselves to save and
economize, to use labor and materials
only as necessity demands, and to invest
in AVar Saving Stamps.
The Government asks us to do this be
cause the amount of labor and materials
in the country is limited; there is not
enough of either to permit us to use it in
the same free way that we did in peace
times and at the same time to leave enough
in the markets for the Government. It
is purely a question of supply and de
mand. If we use the supply, the Govern
ment does not have it for war needs. And
the smaller amount the Government has
for use the longer will the war last. This
is the primary reason for the saving cam
paign.
But there is another side to the question.
The Government asks us to pledge our
selves to save and help win the war. It
does not ask us to give it anything except
our cooperation. In return for our help
w'e receive government security which
pays us a good rate of interest.
If we do as the Government asks, and
as we should, this then would be the re
sult : (1) AVe shall buy only those
things necessary to maintain us in the best
of health and spirits; (2) by refraining
from buying unnecessary things we shall
leave in the markets for government
use a greater supply of labor and mate
rial with which to win a quicker victory;
(3) by not frittering our money away on
things that do not make for efficiency
we shall keep ourselves in better health
and increase our powers of production;
(4) by investing our savings in AVar Sav
ings Stamps we shall be putting aside for
those days which inevitably come if we
live long enough, the means to greater
happiness.—War Stamp News.
GERMAN PHILOSOPHY
Down with the world-conscience! Away
with the spirit of world-brotherhood I
let the German spirit alone be our com
mander and leader! Its cry is more
power! More German power! That is
the legacy bequeathed to us by our dead
heroes, and written in the flame-red
letters of their blood. May those wffio
trifle with this legacy be struck by the
curse which will rise from their graves
to God’s heaven! He whose world con
science’ or sense of responsibility toward
humanity causes him to say or write
anything else than that which the power
of the German sword commands is, and
ways will be, a feeble political dreamer,
a gloomy wanderer in the clouds.—Ber
lin Deutsche Zeitung.
THREE GERMAN RIGHTS
AVe Germans in Prussia have three car
dinal rights; the right to be soldiers, to
pay taxes, to keep our tongues between our
teeth. Consider well this fact; as long as
the German people do not rise and en
force their own will, the assassination of
the people will continue. Let thousands of
voices shout, Down with the shameless ex
termination of nations! Down with
those who are responsible for these
crimes!—Liebnecht in Militarism.
BOY AND GIRL PATRIOTS
More than 2,400,000 boys and gir.’s
were reached through club work last
year, according to a compilation recently
made by the United States Department
of Agriculture, which supervises this work
in cooperation with the State agricultural
colleges. Of this number approximately
350,000 made complete reports, which
show that they produced and conserved
products amounting to $10,000,000.
In 33 northern and western States 840, «
606 boys and girls were enrolled. Of this
number 160,625 made complete reports
and produced and conserved products
valued to $3,700,000.
In the South there were 115,745 boys
enrolled in the regular work, who
produced products valued at $4,500,000,
and 73,306 girls who produced and con
served products valued at $1,500,000.
In the emergency club [work in the
South the club leaders reached over 400,-
000 boys and approximately 1,000,000
girls who produced and conserved prod
ucts valued at more than $4,000,000.—
Federal News Letter.