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The news in this publica tion is released for the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolina for its Bureau of Extension. JANUARY 29, 1919 CHAPEL BILL, N. C. VOL. V, NO. 10 fidHorial Board 1 E. C. Branson, J. G, deK. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, D. D Carroll, G, M, McKie Entered as seoond-olass matter November 14,1914, at the iPostoffloe at Chapel Hill, N. C., under the act of August 24,1912. BUILDING ON EDUCATION THE NEW CALENDAR YEAR. The new calendar year will mark the beginning of a new scholastic year. .Stud ents can enter college or university in .January as if the happenings since last September were a dream. Courses that ordinarily could be entered upon at the beginning of the, second semester only by those who had been taking suitable work during the first, are now but a small part of the entire number offered. The University of North Carolina , for e-xample, invites obi students and new to its dormitories and classrooms on the day after New Year’s with the admoni tion: “ To postpone the continuation or the beginning of a college course until »ext September means the loss of a year.” Nor does the endeavor to recover lost ground stop here. The second semester is divided into quarters, and the number of hours given to work is increased in many courses from three a w'eek to five. With the summer session, 'it thus be comes po.ssible for a student to stand next fall where he would have stood if he had not been withdrawn from his studies by the call of his country. If the student is left in somewhat awake to the situation and are attacking the social evils of the world in an earnest and effective way. We have learned to look upon every enemy of man as our enemy, and upon every institution or organization that does injury to man as our foe,, let it be grog shop, place of evil, power or em pire. Every genuine Methodist feels that he is a man, and that nothing that concerns mankind is foreign to him.— E. L. Stack, Raleigh Christian Advocate. SEVENTEEN NOBLE YEARS Just as we go to the printer’s with the copy for this issue, the daily press an nounces Dr. J. Y. Joyner’s resignation as State Superintendent of I’ublie In struction in North Carolina, after seven teen years of faithful, fruitful service. On the eve of his retirement his co laborers in the office at the Capitol pre sented him with a handsome silver lov ing-cup. The remarkable achievements of Dr. Joyner’s long administration are sum- I marized by Professor L. C. Brogden, the of a ' .State Rural School Agent, as follows: d.aze by these sudden changes of occupa tion, "it may be assumed that he will quickly adapt himself to the latest of them, with perhaps, an enhanced respect for his alma mater as having proved her self enterprising as well as learned.— New York Evening Post. A GRAHAM MEMORIAL. Essays and Addresses on Education, 'Citizenship, and Democracy, by Edward K.-Graham, is the title of a memorial volume of the works of the late President of the University of North Carolina. It will be ready for the mails in a few weeks. It is necessary to know the number of people desiring copies of this book in or der to determine the size of the edition. If you desire a copy please write at once to Albert M. Coates, Secretary, Chapel Hill, N, C. The price is $1.50. THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE. One hundred and fifty high schools have enrolled in the High School Debat ing Union of North Carolina for the sev enth annual State-wide contest. The query is: Resolved, That the Gov ernment of the United States should adopt a policy of requiring a year of mil itary training for all able-bodied men be fore they reach the age of 21. Bulletin No. 31, entitled “Compulsory .Military Training”, has just been issued by tiie Bureau of Extension of the Uni versity, and will be used as a handbook •of material by the debaters. This bul letin, 100 pages in length, contains briefs, outlines, and selected articles bearing on Ihoth sides of the query. Y; Tlie indications are that this year’s ’ v «ontest of the Union will be a very suc- ■ ■ i 'cessful one. The AVilson High School i won the Aycock Memorial Cup in last year’s contest. “Anew school house for each day in the year; two hundred and twenty-seven local tax, districts increased to approxi mately two thousand; approximately two hundred and fifty public high schools for the education of country children; twen ty farm life schools for the proper educa tion and training of country boys and girls for happy and efficient life out there under God’s blue sky; teachers and county superintendents working with unity of purpose and with unity of eflort; the teaching profession being rapidly and efficiently standardized; the work of the country teacher being effectively system- ized, supervised and/directed; the pub lic school system given form and content; the dark cloud of illiteracy being system atically and rapidly dispelled; public conscience for the proper education of all the children of all the people quick ened as never before, and, reaching a triumphant note, culminating with an almost unanimous mandate by the peo ple of the state for a minimum six months school term.” A rarely noble record. There is none greater, all told, in the history of public education in the entire United .States. Distinction at home and perhaps an even greater fame abroad are Dr. Joyner’s re wards. It is Democracy’s w'ay of re warding public servants. He is succeeded by Dr. E. C. Brooks, professor of education in Trinity Col lege—a w'orthy successor to a great pub lic official. Our best wishes to them both for long life and usefulness. GOSPEL. is also the “ WESLEY’S SOCIAL The gospel of Methodism a gospel of social redemption. Take the I; first great Methodist Church ever opened, Tlie 1'c«tndry. Here we see exemplified ;tlie social im[»ulse of AVesley and his fol- lower.s. The Foundry was a publishing lioHse as well as a place for preaching and worship. Indeed, .John AA esley w'as the dis coverer of the power of the printing press ■as a. means of Christianizing the world. 'The Foiiudry was also a loan office where the v/orthy poor were assisted tow’ard indepcmlence. Here was also, so far as I know, the first free medical dispensary in the history of the world. A great many of the w'riters nowadays wite a.s though Christianity was just be- 'coiiting conscious of her social mission. They are ignorant of Methodist history or they have forgotten it, Methodists have always advocated a Ctiri,sti;xnity that loves and helps men. R 'ad the General Rules in our Discipline and you will have a pretty good text from wliicli to preach the Methodist doctrine of social regeneration. Surely we have a niis.sion to society as well as to the indiv idual, and I fool sure that we are fully VALUABLE STUDY OUTLINES AA’hat kind of a world ought this world to be, now that the war is over? AVhat are the problems that readers, thinkers, and leaders ought to be familiar with in thorough-going sort, and w’hat are the sources of information? Here and there will be intelligent peo pie who will like to bunch up for serious study of the issues that confront us in the New Day that President AVilson talks about. It is for the people of student like aptitudes and abilities that The Fed eral Council of the Churches of Christ in America is broadcasting a little pamph let entitled On tline Studies of the Prob lems of the Reconstruction Period. It can be had for 25 cents by writing to The Association I’ress, 347 Madison Ave., New York City. Thirteen topics are outlined, with read ing references, as follows: Alcohol ism, Social Vice, The Broken Family The Status of AVomen, The Home-coming Alen, Democracy and the AA’ar, Industry The Ending of AVar, Nationalism and Internationalism, AVar Finance and the Increased Burden of Living, The New Task of Organiz d Religion, The Spirit of Cooperation and Service, and The Goal of Civilization. Peace Issues are now just as urgent as War Issues ever were in the courses of the S. .A-. T. C. colleges, and with this booklet in hand they can be courses in self-tuition by local study-clubs these long winter nights.—E. C. B. A FARMER’S CREED 1. I believe in red clover, in white clover, in sweet clover, in cowpeas, in soybeans, and above all, 1 believe in alfalfa, the queen of forage plants. 2. I believe in a permanent agri culture, in a soil that grows richer rather than poorer from year to year. 3. I believe in 60 bushel corn and 40 bushel wheat and shall not be sat isfied with less. 4. I believe that the only good weed is a dead weed, and that a clean farm is as important as a clean con- science 5. I believe in the farm boy and the farm girl, the farmer’s best crop and the future’s l)est hope. 6. I believe in the farm woman, and will do all in my power to make her life easier and happier. 7. I believe in the country scliool that prepares for country life, and in a country church tliat teaches its peo ple to love deeply and live honorably. 8. I believe in community spirit, a pride in the home and neighbors, and I will do my part to make my own community the best in the state to live in. 9. I believe in better roads, and I will use the road drag whenever the roads are ready for it. 10. I believe in happiness. I be lieve in the power of a smile, and will use mine on every possible occasion. 11. I believe in the farmer. I be lieve in the farm life. I believe in the inspiration of the open country. 12. I am proud to be a farmer, 1 am proud to be a member of a farm bureau, and I will try earnestly to up hold the worthy name.—E. J. K. in the Kansas Industrialist. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 155 LOOKING FORWARD The war is over! Victory is now an assured fact to the arms of the Allies. The useless slaughter of men, the sense less waste of m.gterial, the bloody rule of might, has been brought to a close—over there. How about victory—over here? Does the coming of victory overseas mean that we are now free to settle back into the old ruts and carry on as we did before August 19i4? A look about, a mere glance at facts revealed by war conditions answers the questions in the negative. The foes we have most to fear are those of our own household. The Enemies at Home AVe have heard and read much about our determination to make the world sale for democracy. Have we proven that democracy is itself a safe instrument of government? Under a democracy we have allowed ten per pent of our total population to come to’inan’s estate with out sufficient schooling to enable them to read and write. AVe so fail to enforce our school attendance laws that nearly twenty per cent of the boys and girls who should go to school are not there. AVe spend more for autcmobiles every year than we do to provide elementary and secondary education for our chil dren. AVe pay our school teachers less, on the average, than we pay the laborer on our roads and bridges. AVe allow' our children to be taught American ideals through the medium of a foreign lan guage. All this is our democracy. It Means Something Now if there is one fact more self-evi dent than another it is this; AVe cannot long maintain satisfactorily a government of the people, by the people, and for the people if we allow such large proportions of the people to remain in ignorance. The educated citizen is the reliable citi zen ; the ignorant citizen is the tool of the demagogue and the instrument ready made for political corruption. The issues are clearly drawn. Either we must enter the lists now against igno rance and indifference to learning or we must admit that democracy as an instru ment of government is a failure! Shall we fall back or shall we carry on? WHAT A PROBLEM! The selective draft has astonished us by revealing the many able-bodied men who are not capable of managing their own affairs with ordinary prudence, who in other words are feebleminded. Of the men in the selective draft from North Carolina sent to Camp Jackson, 14 per thousand were found not to be sufficient ly strong mentally to fight for the coun try that gave them birth.—Dr. C. Banks McNairy. habitant, which is less than the price of a single movie ticket or a half plug of the cheapest tobacco, and (3) that thirty-kwo states support their universities more lib erally, five of them being southern states namely, Louisiana, Kentucky,Texas, Ok lahoma, and New Mexico. Louisiana, al though nearly half of her population is black makes a better showing than North Carolina. SpeaKing of NebrasKa Counting white population alone, the cost of the University of North Carolina is 12 cents per inhabitant. In Nebraska, which has a white population 300,000 fewer than North Carolina, the per capita cost of the university is 90 cents. AA’hich ponding figure was $3,110 and only four states made a better showing. These by the way are Federal Census Bureau flg- gures. It is clearer than a pikestaff that abun dant education is a good business invest ment for individuals and states alike. It is impossible for a people to set too high a value upon character and culture. Ta stint and starve in order to provide educa tional advantages for the children is the Scotch way. It is a noble way and North Carolina is largely Scotch, let us remem ber. A Look Ahead North Carolina has just voted a six- months public school term. It means 1# is to say, Nebraska appropriates $7.50 for | instead of 7‘ million dollars a year for the support of her university for every dollar so appropriated in North Carolina. She values her university, in other words^ seven and a half times more than we do ours. RECONSTRUCTION MEASURE During the first week in November Representative A’oung of North Dakota introduced into the U. S. House of Rep resentatives a concurrent resolution pro viding that illiterate American soldiers should be demobilized last. He called it the first reconstruction measure. The purpose back of it is to give such soldiers an elementary education before they are returned to private life. To what extent is the penurious public pocket responsible for the fact that there are 750,000 illiterate soldiers in our army? Evidently Nebraska believes in univer sity culture. But just as evidently she public school support. There is no longer any doubt about our ability to spend ten millions a year oa popular education. The people that sur renders 251 million dollars in eighteen months for war support—that’s the amaz ing total w'ar figure for North Carolina— believes in common-school education. The ; can easily spend ten millioris a year for the in our year she gave her university a million dollars tor support, she spent twelve mil lions on her public schools, or nearly twice as much as North Carolina. And the school population of Nebraska, mind you, is only a little more than half as large as ours. As, a result less than two per cent of her farm population is illiterate, against nearly 20 per cent in North Carolina. As a further result, our per capita country wealth in farm properties in 1910 was only $322, against $3,259 in Nebras ka All properties considered, our per capita wealth in 1912 was $794 and only Missippi was poorer among all the states of the Union. In Nebraska the corres- common-school education, if only problems of peace are as large minds as the purposes of war. AVe are able; the question is are we willing? AVe are, if we are worthy of our Scotch ancestry. And furthermore, a million dollar en- downment fund for Wake Forest, more money by many thousands for our state institutions of benevolence, technical training, and liberal arts ought all to be within the range of possibility in North Carolina in this first year of the new peace era. The day of pint-cup thinking about the big-scale concerns of the commonwealth is at an end. STATE UNIVERSITY SUPPORT Average per inhabitant 1916-17 Based on the Federal Education Bureau Bulletin No. 55, 1917, and the Census Bureau Estimates of Population. H. M. HOPKINS, University of North Carolina, 1918-19. UNIVERSITY SUPPORT Last week Mr. H. M. Hopkins, who is investigating the annual support of uni versities in the United States, showed that the maintenance fund voted by the legis lature to the University of North Caro lina for 1917 and 1918 amounted to two cents per hundred dollars of taxable val ues; that it was rnore in 30 states, nine of them being southern states; and that it was five times greater in Nebraska and Illinois, and more than seven times great er in California. This week he ranks the states according to the cost of state universities per inhab itant. See the table elsewhere in this is sue. A glance at this table shows, (1) that the cost of state universities ranges from one cent per inhabitant in New Jersey, which appropriates about $5,000 a year to Rutgers, a private foundation, to $2.37 per inhabitant in Nevada, (2) that the cost in North Carolina is 8 cents per in- Rank State University Per inhab. Rank State University Per inhab. 1. Nevada $2.37 23. Indiana $0.20 2. California 1.06 24. Missouri 19 3. Arizona 91 25. South Dakota la 4. Nebraska 85 25. Delaware State College. 18 5. AA’yoining 81 25. New Mexico 18 72 28. Oklahoma 17 7. Miiuie.90ta 66 29. A'ermont 16 8. Oregon 55 29. Texas 16 9. Utah 31. Kentucky .10 10. Michigan 46 32. Louisiana OO 11. Illinois 42 33. New York—Cornell ... 08 12. AVashington 41 33. North Carolina 08 33 08 14. .Montana 38 36. Florida 07 15. Kansas 34 36. Georgia 07 16.. Colorado 31 36. Tennessee 07 16. Ohio 39. tiouth Carolina 06 18. AVest Virginia 29 39. Penn. State College.... 06 18. Idaho 41. Virginia 04 20. Maine .22 42. Mississippi 21. North Dakota ',21 42. Alabama 02 21. R. I. State College 21 44. New Jersey, Rutgers... New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Alassachusetts do not maintain state uaiver* sities or colleges.
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