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the university of north CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by th*
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Elxtension.
SEPTEMBER 25, 1918
CHAPEL HHX. N. C.
VOL. IV, NO. 44
EdUorial Board . E. 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 Postoffloe at Chapel HIU, N. C., under the act of August 24,1912.
OUR SCHOOLROOM PATRIOTS
ITHE UNIVERSITY OPENING
The University of North Carolina
will open for registration September
24 and 25 instead of September 11 and
12, as previously announced. The
change in date is due to the delay in
the announcement by the War Depart
ment of the details of the regulations
for organizing the student army train
ing corps. It will be necessary for
students to register on the opening
days. Examinations for the removal
of conditions will be held September
18 to 21. The first meeting of the
faculty for the new year will take
place on the 17th.
Prospects for a large regista’ation
are bright. Many more entrance cer
tificates have been received than at
the corresponding time last year. The
new army regulations will fill the col
leges t)o their capacity.
60,000 Officers Needed
All of the University men in the
officers training school at Camp Gor
don, just graduated, received commis
sion. Twenty recent graduates are in
the present training school at Camp
Jackson.
In response to an overwhelming
number of inquiries from this and oth
Stamp week in North Carolina was the
pledge of 428 teachers in the Univer
sity Summer School to sell $42,800
worth of war stamps in their school
communities before January 1.
They will do that), and much more,
because they are under a great head
way of patriotic steam.
A CALL TO THE COLORS
To the School Teachers of the Unit
ed States: You are hereby called to
the colors of the American republic.
The teaching force of the United
States is summoned to serve anew in
the great world crisis that is at hand.
The war for human freedom cannot
be won unless the army of soldiers of
the common good—the public school
army—gives the fullest measure of
sacrifice and service. Still more im
portant, a new and fairer civilization
will not take the place of the one that
has broken down under the stress of
conflict unless the molders of the soul-
stuff of the world—teachers—dedicate
themselves afresh to the mighty task
of rebuilding the national institutions
as an expression of the highest ideal
of humanity.
OUR SCHOOL CREED
We believe with Dr. William T.
The schools are the laboratory of
er states in regard to the status of, good citizenship. The children are lit-
the college student for the academic ] Ge citizens and must be guided in such
year 918-19, President Edward K. • present experiences as will make cer-
Graham, Regional Director of the ' tain their future dedication to the wel-
Student Army Training Corps for the fare of the republic. The junior mem
South Atlantic States, has just issued
the followin,g statement:
“No definite statement can be made
now as to how long students will be
allowed to remain in college. They
will be allowed to remain as long as
the war emergency will permit. Under
present plans it is probable tliat a
proportional part of the 20 year old
men will be withdrawn in January; a
lu'oportional part of those 19 in April,
while the 18 year old sol&iers will re
main in college to the end of the year.
“Under the revised plan of the War
Depaiffment the Government pays to
the college the tuition, lodging, and
subsistence charges of accepted stud
ents who voluntarily enlist in this pre
liminary training urged by the needs
of the government for trained men.
“Young men who are qualified foi
the work offered by the various col
leges apply for admission exactly as
heretofore. Students who are under
18 and students who are not physically
fit for military service may take col
lege work under conditions that have
heretofore existed. They may “enroll”
for military training and later “enlist”
when they meet the qualifications.”
Camp or College
The boys from 18 to 20 who are call
ed to the colors under the new draft
law must be trained intensively for
war, either in camps or colleges. They
are not exempted when under training
in the army camps; neither are they
exempted when under training in the
colleges.
They must be trained somewhere,
and whenever they are prepared for it,
it is better for them to be trained in
the colleges tihan in the camps.
The camps are nowhere large
enough for the men already under
training. They are greatly overcrowd
ed, and when the number of soldiers
that must be trained for service under
the new law is suddenly doubled, the
ample provisions and equipment of the
colleges become a national necessity.
TEACHER-PATRIOTS
Around twenty-five hundred teach
ers have this year been at work in the
summer session of the University ot
North Carolina and other institutions
of the state. They have paid their
own way out of salaries that average
the state over less than $300 a
Their summer school expense bill has
been more than a tithe of their
incomes; often it has been a full fifth
or even a full fourth of their meager
salaries. They are getting reacW to
render better seiwice in the school
rooms of North Carolina. It is thmi
contribution to the education of the
children of the state; and it is a con
tribution of fervent patriotism. It
goes without saying that they are one
hundred per cent patriots.
War Stamp Patriotism
From time to time the University
News Letter has carried accounts of
the activities of teachers and school
systems in the sale of war savings
stamps—in Forsyth and Richmond
counties, in Shelby, Elizabeth City,
Statesville, Rockingham and Durham,
and in the little country schools of
Stony Point and The Fork.
Undoubtedly the teachers of the
state have had a, creditable _ part in
marketing war stamps and it is re
grettable that the story in full detail
has not been given to the state by the
authorities in charge.
The most conspicuous event of War
bership of the Red Cross, through the
school auxiliary, offers an unsurpass
able medium tlirough which the patri
otic activities of the children can make
themselves felt. Beginning with Lin
coln’s Birthday and lasting until
Washington’s Birthday a nation-wide
effort is to be made in behalf of in-
treasing the junior membership. This
call to the colors is for your service
in this campaign.
You are hereby called to the colors
by all the great ideals through which
Today is acting on Tomorrow to the end
that Tomorrow may see the sunrise of
a world life dedicated to straight
thinking, hard work, mighty loving.
You are tailed to the colors by the
Spirit of America, by the needs of
childhood, by the Soul of Civilization.
Yours is the privilege of sacrificing,
serving, and loving.
I salute you upon your great oppor
tunity. I thank you for the way in
which you are certain to rise to its
farthest heights.
Soldiers of the Common Good! Re
builders of Civilization! Molders of
the Destiny of the World! Your great
task is ready. Assume it.—Dr. Mary
C. C. Bradford, President National
Educational Association.
THE TEACHER’S COTTAGE
It has long been accepted by obsei-v-
ing people that the shifting, uncertain
service of the rural school teacher was
so great that no real progress can be
hoped for in country schools until this
condition is corrected. The teacher’s
cottage in village and in country
schools, if properly administered, will
make for very rapid improvement. The
essential gain is permanency.
The teacher’s cottage means per
manency in service, in responsibility
and in progress.
The School Garden Association of
America is interested in teachers’ cot
tages, particularly on account of two
fundamental factors in educational up
lift. First, the teachers.’cottage makes
possible an all-year school. Not that
reading, writing and arithmetic should
be gone over every day in the year, but
that the school is always equipped and
ready to serve the community in edu
cation. The school should be looked
upon as a broad institution.
A ten-acre field containing a school
house, a school cottage, a school barn
and other necessary farm buildings, a
playground, a garden, an orchard and
other typical agricultural industries of
the community, is a broadening of the
educational horizon worth while. Such
a plant needs a live man, a leader, and
a teacher and a father in the communi
ty. The establishment of the cottage
plan must tiherefore result in bring
ing a better form of home life into the
school work. The Outdoor Education
can be easily carried on, because a re
sponsible teacher is on hand both sum
mer and winter to look after the entire
school plant.
The traditional country school is not
a country school at all. It is a city
school. It has deliberately prepared
boys and girls for city living. Agricul
ture has been good enough for father,
but not good enough for teacher, and,
therefore, it is not good enough for the
girl or the boy of the country. Conse
quently agricultural living conditions
and remuneration have not advanced
as they should. Every school should
first of all express the community life
in a better form. If the community life
is worth while, it is worth bettering.
■The first work of the school is to do
just that thing, therefore the teacher’s
Harris that education is a recipro
cal union with society.
We believe that .social conditions
determined efficient school func
tioning.
We believe that the output of our
school should be graduates who are
aflame with rational ideals and pur
poses; but who are also steeped in
reality, to their very throat-latches.
We believe that our teachers
should be intimately acquainted
with the best that the great world
is thinking and doing in their chos
en subjects; but also that they
should be accurately schooled in
outdoor economic and social condi
tions, bauses, and consequences in
their home state, in direct, first
hand ways.
We believe that the school is one
of the mightiest agencies of social
uplift; and that no teacher can help
to make his school such an agency
unless he is directly and vitally re
lated to the human-life problems of
the home comrnunity, the mother
State, and the big wide world.
We believe that the teacher has
a right to be a citizen and a pat
riot ; that to be less than either or both
is to be a mere teacher; and that a
mere teacher is something less than
a full statiured man or woman—a
tertium quid, a third sex, it may
be, a neuter!
We believe that our school has
betrayed the high calling whereun-
to the state has called it if its
graduates do not set their hands
to their tasks as teacher-citizeii-
patriotis, as lovers of their kind and
their country, with keen realization
of home conditions and needs, with
mighty and mellow sympathy and
concern, with growing love for com
munity and county, state and coun
try, and with high resolve to glorify
common duties, and common rela
tionship in faithful, self-forgetful
devotion.
We believe that in tlte measure in
which we shall satisfy these ideals
shall we all love our school more,
our home counties more, our moth
er state more, our fellow-kind
more—and serve them better, both
now and in all years to come.—E.
C. Branson, University of North
Carolina.
cottage should be the social center and
at the same time lead in a higher
idealization of all that that community
stands for.—Van Evrie Kilpatricli,
President School Garden Association
of America.
THEIREAL RURAL TEACHER
A iTiral teacher is one:
Who knows her work and works her
knowledge.
Who loves the bee in spite of its
sting.
Who can pat a puppy that bespatters
his gai-ments with mud.
Who is born, bred and buttered on
the farm and is proud of it.
Who has originality and leadership
and wishes to develop them.
Who not only shouts Long Live the
farmer, but who lives with the far
mer.
Who not only spends his vacation in
the country, but vacates the city for
the country.
Who not only stays close to nature
but occasionally catches up with it.
Who not only enjoys the fried chick
en and brown gravy but respects th ■,
method by which they were produced.
Who can be generously sympathetic
with nature without being patronizing.
Who can sacrifice a few^man-mado
pleasures for the greater joy of com
muning with God’s great out-of-doors
Who has no time tracing ancestors
because he is so busy ascending.
Who understands that it is foolish to
wait! for his ship to tome in when it
has never been launched.
Who knows that he must not be ovo
cautious about where he is to land, for
he who always looks before he leaps,
usually decides to hunt a soft spot, and
so never jumps.—The School News and
Practical Education.
A MEMORY OF A TEACHER
It is amusing what things we re
member from our own teachers: From
one, an anecdote; from another a scrap
of information; from another, a con
viction; and, sad to relate, from many,
nothing. They talked to us, let their
personalties play upon us, advised us,
scolded, bored, cajoled. Undoubtedly,
the sum of their influence went to
make us different from what we should
have been without it; yet often the
last thing we remember about them is
the facts they taught us. The one who
made us work Jjardest may be the least
remembered and the one through
whose classes we dozed and dreamed
may be speaking to us clearly still.—
Robert M. Gay, in the Atlantic.
A PREACHER-PATRIOT
There is a preacher at Bamardsville,
Buncombe county. Rev. R. L. Philips,
whose name should go high on the
list. Our understanding is that he is
a Baptist, but no matter about the
denomination, he’s a patriot of the first
class and high up in the first class at
that.
The Landmark finds the story in the ;—
news columns of the Asheville Citizen. I from each crop were
BE YOUR OWN SEEDMAN
In pioneer days seeds of grain,
vegetables, fruit, flowers brought from
the old country were worth their
weight in gold. Flowers and homely
vegetables familiar in gardens across
the sea, and therefore dear, bloomed
here side by side with plants from the
woods and fields of the new world.
Speakers went to Bamardsville to pre
sent the tause of the Red Cross. The
meeting had not been well advertised
and the crowd was small. Mr. Philips
abandoned his preaching service and
gave the Red Cross the right of way.
When the appeal was made for sub
scriptions, the response was weak.
Then Preacher Philips took the floor
and here’s what he said, as quoted by
the Citizen:
“I will pledge to the Red Cross
funds from Bamardsville district the
sum of $250 and I will promise you
that unless the people of this district
stand back of me in this, that I will
pay it myself, but the day after I am
forced to pay it, I will pack up my
suit case and leave this community,
because I will not live in a community
of slackers.”
The Citizen adds that word soon
came to headquarters at Asheville that
the $250 had been subscribed. Mr.
Philips didn’t live in a community of
slackers.
Glory to the Buncombe preacher,
and may his tribe increase!—The
Landmark.
WOMEN-PATRIOTS
The other evening I dined with ten
women, every one of whom had given
up, set aside, even forfeited, from ten
to fifty thousand dollar a year jobs, for
dollar a year service to Country!
A woman editor helping Hoover; a
woman author co-operating to organ
ize the new Liberty Loan drive; a fam
ous actress on an eight hour a day war
relief duty.
What a bugle call to the latent
woman power of America to lift its
head!
This war has already shunted into
undreamed of activities the bridge
whist players, the tea fighters and
i poodle dog coddlers of this vast coun
try, but much of that same dilettante
spirit is still evident.
The gigantic business of war is going
forward by organized and consistent
labor. If fifty thousand dollars a year
and nine hours a day can be one busy
woman’s quiet and voluntary offering
at the shrine of future world democ-
lacy, what of the leisure women who
are salving their patriotism with one
afternoon of knitting, or passively
lending their names to the letterhead
stationery of this or that war Commit
tee.
Street car knitting, hotel-veranda-
made trench candles, plate glass-win
dow-rolled bandages are mere crumbs
from a rich man’s table.
The woman editor who laid aside her
job and twelve thousand a year for
subordinate and routine work in a
dingy Washington office, has just
pledged herself for a second year of
service!
Why not, Mrs.’Suburbanite, increase
that one afternoon a week of yours
with a Red Cross knitting, bandage or
kit Circle, to two, three, four, five, even
six!—Fannie Hurst of The Vigilantes.
saved the best seed against the time of
another planting.
But with growing abundance the
saving of seeds came to be less and
less a concern of homely thrift. The
custom of saving one’s own seed was
no longer general. The seed merchant
became a most useful member of the
commercial world. In our own day it
has been easier to buy seed than to
save them. Therefore we have bought.
The farmers have saved seed, wheat
com and other grains, while the thrif
ty farmer’s wife has saved the seed of
her favorite vegetables, but the towns
man has forgotten the art of selecting
and keeping his own seed and the
store has been too easy of access.
This year the supply of seed is
short, alarmingly short, and the prices ab
normally high. The government calls
upon the individual gardener to return
to the ways of his thrifty forefathers,
to make a study of seed selection and
in so doing to manifest the same
patriotic pride he has shown in his
garden.
One of the most striking develop
ments of the day is the war-garden
movement. Together with the thrift
stamp habit, it promises to convert the
spend-thrift American into the sturdy
self-respecting citizen that his great
grandfather was.
The gardener who takes pains to
save a quarter for a thrift stamp be-
Ca,use his country asks him to do it,
will by and by be saving his garden
seed because his government savs it
will help feed the country.—Mrs. W.
D. Toy.
ON THE SAVING OF SEED
GO AFTER HIM HOTFOOT
The other day the grocer charged us
15 cents for a pound of sugar. Here
and there this kind of thing is happen
ing often enough to set sensible people
to looking for crows.
We shall have to go after petty pro
fiteers hotfoot. The kick of a mule is
far more endurable than a stream of
ants along your spinal column.
A writer in The New York Sun Jabs
his grocer under the fifth rib after a
fashion. It pleases us immensely.
This is what he says to him.
“I would like to say to a certain
firm nameless because it will apply to
all others who get into the same boat:
‘Not another pound of your goods shall
I buy. I can’t this week for your store
has been closed by the Government,
but, you needn’t open it next week on
my account, nor any other week.
‘ “If you wouldn’t join the conserva
tion movement from partiotism, you
might have done so from policy. Your
selfishness lacked shrewdness.
‘ “Get your ear to the ground and
you will find that this country is in
this war to win it. Nothing short of
that, and slackers of every sort are
grit in the machine and prolongers of
the war and are going to be ostra
cized.’ ”
The boycott or ostracism is drastic
procedure. But then we are at war
and simple remedies are not now al
ways efficacious. We are not so sure
but what some such policy would prove
beneficial. At any rate those who have
been and still are violating the regula
tions laid down by the President and
tarried out by Mr. Hoover in the na
tion and Mr. Page in this state might
think on the possibility of these things
and determine whether the chance is
worth the gain.—Greensboro News.
Gardeners in Chapel Hill are this
year paying 90 cents a quart for seed
beans, and proportionately high prices
for other seed. Why ?
For several years there has been an
increasing shortage of seeds. The sup
ply of imported seed, a quantity so
large as to be almost beyond belief,
has been almost cut off by war condi
tions. The shortage of labor has ser
iously affected the seed farms and
firms. Thousands of men, women, and
children have taken to gardening
where formerly one went into it. Re
sult—not enough seed to go around.
What is the Remedy?
Save your own seed, says the gov
ernment. Having become skilled gard
eners and produced fine vegetables for
home use and canning, why not learn
to select and save your own seed for
the lean years to come?
Send today to the U. S. Dept. Agri
culture in Washington, D. C., for Bul-
letip No. 884. It will give you val
uable help in selecting and preseiwing
seed. It is worth while.—Mrs. W. D.
Toy.
PAN-GERMAN RELIGION
The Pan-German view of the world
is consciously aimed at the rooting out
of the Christian religion and the sys
tem of ethics derived from it. A Ger
man religion is to arise, linked to the
belief in W^odan of our ancestors,
which, in tum, is to be so refined by
the results of the modern theory of
races and the teachings of the Dar
winian theory of evolution that what
remains will be Atheism, framed in
high-sounding phrases. The German
people, as the noblest and most favor
ed of all races, as the highest manifes
tation of humanity, will have become
its own god.
Christianity will be done away with
according to the ideas of Nietzche, as
the great weakening and enervating
influence. The only great person is he
who has power and uses it. Sin, re
demption, repentance, the greatest and
most profound things that human
thought tries to fathom, do not exist for
this company of heartless bullies,
whose members, with monocles in their
left eyes and rattling sabres in their
right hands, challenge the world in
order to place the German heel upon its
neck in ‘ancient Roman fashion.’—
Adam Roder, Editor-in-chief of Seud-
deutsche Konservative Korrespondenz
of Karlsruhe.
FOCH AND THE BIBLE
Commander-in-Chief Foch has ex
pressed his opinion of the value of the
Bible. He sent a message to the
American Bible Society eloquent in its
forcefulness. The French Commander
said, “The Bible is certainly the best
preparation that you can give to an
American soldier going into battle to
sustain his magnificent ideal and
faith.”—The wonderful success of
Marshal Foch is more easily under
stood since the message was read.—
Asheville Times.