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The news in this publictn- lion is released (or the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North CaroKna (or its Bureau of Extension. JULY 2,1919 CHAPEL HHJ., N. C. VOL. V, NO. 32 EditoTlal Board i B. 0. Branaon, J. G, deB."Hamilton, L. B. Wilson, D. D Carroll, G. M. McKie. Entered as s»cond.olass matter November 14,1914, at the Poatoffloe at Chapel Hill, N. C., under the act of August 24,1913. HARRY WOODBURN CHASE Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, the newly elected president of the University of North Carolina, was born in Groveland, Mass., 36 years ago, and was educated in the public schools of that town and at Dartmouth College, from uhicli he re ceived the A. B. degree. He began his work for the A. M. degree in 1904, but left before it was conferred. The requirements for the degree, however, he completed while teaching, and it was conferred in 1908. He was a graduate student in psychol ogy under Dr. G. Stanley Hall, 1908-10 at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and received the Ph. D. degree in psy chology from that institution in 1910. In the summer of that year he began his association with tlie University of North Carolina as professor of the philosophy of education. In 1915 his title became professor of psychology. Becomes Dean of College Following the death of Dr. Edward K. Graham, Dr. Chase was named as acting dean of the College of liberal arts upon the appointment of Prof. M. H. Stacy as chairman of the faculty in 1918. He held that position until the death of Prof. Stacy, wlien he became chairman of the faculty. Dr. Chase made a favorable impression upon the executive committee of the board of trustees, with whom he has been in conference frequently since he has been chairman of the faculty. His ap pearance before the legislative committees in the General Assembly of 1919 likewise called forth favorable comment. University Men Pleased Tlie news received here from Raleigh tonight that Doctor H. M. Chase was elected president of the State University was received by the University commu nity with a genuine feeling of satisfaction. The announcement was made public just at tlie close of the commencement debate and produced prolonged applause. As acting dean of the University Dr. Chase fast gained favor and as acting president this spring he won the hearty approval and sympathy of the faculty and stu dents.—R. W. Madry. able in the extreme if it failed in any re spect to fill the large place in the life of the State that it may fairly be expected to fill or if it did not meet adequately the new condition and the increased demand. A weighty responsibility has been placed upon the shoulders of Dr. Chase. But he has given every evidence of being pre pared to measure up to it and tlie State may look foward, we believe, with confi dence to a thoroughly successful period of the Unversity’s history.—News and Ob server. THE LOOK AHEAD Dr. Chase is a scholar of -unquestioned ability and solid achievement. An A. B. -of Dartmouth, a Pli.D. of Clark, a mem ber of the faculty of the University for ten years, a frequent contributor to the edu- •cationa! journals, his scholarship has been recognized by his election to membership in the Amercian Psychological Associa tion, the Soutliern Society of Philosophy and Psychology of which he has been sec retary since 1917, tlie Society of College Teachers of Education, and other organi- ."zatioiis. Although still a young man, he has had the scholastic training and has developed the skill in what may be term ed university technique, wliich every man ought to have wlio assumes to lead a great university into broader spliercs of useiul- ness. The new University president has also demonstrated his capacity as an admin istrator. Reports from the university, and it is certain that this information was one of the most controlling considerations with the trustees, were that Dr. Chase .as acting chairman of the faculty grew rapidly upon the admiration and respect •of his associates. The latent power of deadership in him responded quickly and generously to the first opportunity that •offered for its display. Professors and stu dents soon began to think of him and -Speak of him as a suitable successor of Dr. Graham. Equipped in scholarship, personality, •character, executive and administra tive capacity. President Chase starts upon his career as head of North Carolina’s greatest educational institution with every promise of success. No man in the State has a greater op portunity for serving the State. Hardly any part of the University’s career has been so critical and important as will be 4he coming years. It would be lament THE N. C. CLUB Speaking before Ihe last regular fort nightly meeting of the North Carolina Club to be held this spring. Dr. L. A. Williams of the department of education of the University, declared that voca tional education in North Carolina must come about as a component and co-ordi nate part of the public scliool system as already establislied and not as a separate and distinct unit in either organization, management, or support, not superim posed but added to and made a part of the public school system. Public education cannot properly func tion, the speaker pointed out, if it is only concerned with teaching its patrons how to earn a living an4 neglects to teacli them how to enjoy and profit by their leisure time. Vocational education, therefore, he in sisted, has a much greater significance and a much broader application than merely as the teaching of trades. The term includes the idea of teaching a trade, but it includes also the idea of prepara tion for the professions, for the arts, for all those legitimate activities in life by the practice of which men and women earn a living. This being so, said he, it is evident that vocational schools cannot be organized separate and apart from other education al interests. The civic, industrial, per sonal, recreational, and intellectual in terests of our complex American society are so closely interwoven, so inextrica bly entwined that when you attempt to separate them you do violence not only to the educational fabric but to the social units as well. Our Farm Life Schools Had we realized this fact. Dr. Williams continued, and had we followed its lead, we would not have the difficulty we are now undergoing in our farm life schools. These ought never to have been sepa rated from nor should tliey ever have been made a distinct and separate unit within our state high school system. Agricultural work should have been ofiered in conjunction witli and as a com ponent part of our high school program of studies. Our industrial centers may well take a lesson from this experience and devote their efforts not toward the establishment of trade or textile or commercial schools, but rather toward seeing to it that funds, equipment and teachers adequate for tlie carryina: on of sucli teaching are provid ed in tiieliiaii seliools of their res|)ective towns and communities. “Tlie need, so far as tiii.s part of tlie problem is concerned, is not for tlie es tablishment of more schools witii a spe cialized purpose, but rather for a broad ening and enriching of the program of studies in the schools we already have. By a more flexible form of organization and system of management, try a more liberal attitude toward the needs and de sires of scliool patrons and a greater will ingness to try to meet these needs in the the schools already established is to be found a part of the solution of vocational education. Carolina’s Needs “If we as a state are to provide equal opportunity for an education for all chil dren up to 21 years of age we must look to the various and multitudinous needs of our school population. The principle upon which to base procedure in secur ing equal opportunity for vocational edu cation is the principle of meeting a social heed. Such vocational topic.? shoulii be studied as most clearly meet the needs of the community in which the school is FREEDOM FOR MANKIND Woodrow Wilson The things tliat these men left us, though they did not in their counsels conceive it, is the great instrument which we have just erected into the League of Nations. The League of Nations is the Covenant of Govern ments that these men shall not have died in vain. I like to think that the dust of those sons of America wlio were not pri vi leged to be buried in their mother country will mingle with the dust of tlie men who fought for the preservation of tiie Union, and as those men gave tlieir lives in order that America might be united, these men have given their lives in order that the world might be united. Those men gave their lives in order to secure tlie freedom of a nation. Tliese men have given their lives in order to secure the freedom of man kind ; and I look forward to an age when it will be just as impossible to regret the results of their labor as it is now impo.“sible to regret tlie result of the labor of those men who fought for the union of the States. I look for the time whm every man who HOW puts his counsel against tlie united service of mankind under the League of Nations will bejust as asham ed of it as if he now regretted the un ion of the States.—Metnorial Day Ad- dres.s, Suresnes Cemetery, France, 1919. situated. To state vocational subjects suitable for Wilmington would not be to state vocational subjects suitable also for Gaston or Durham or Pleasant Gar den, for instance.’’ “Public education being a mutual re- sponsioility, the local, state and national units should all unite in a more liberal support of the schools, that support be ing limited only by the limit of the tax ing power of each unit.’’ Basing his statement on tlie last report of the State inspector of high schools. Dr. Williams showed that out of 8,911 students who enrobe 1 in the first year’s work of the high schools of the State on ly 1,066 graduated. The failure of the schools to teach the pupils how to earn a living is undoubtedly one 'of the great cause.? of the high mortality rate in high school enrollment. This function has been dropped by the home.—R. W. Madry. A CITY MILK PLANT Anyone who happens to be abroad upon the streets of Tarboro at milk dispensing time is likely see a neat wagon drawn by a sturdy horse and driven by a whole somely clean young man. The inscription upon the wagon is of ordinary sort as yon read the first line. Milk Fit for Babies. But when you come to tlie next line, interest quickens. Muni cipal Milk Plant, Tarboro, N. C. reads the unusual legend. So you begin to ask questions, and answers, as herein, may be found in full in the American City for May, in an article by Dr. K.E.Miller, Past Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, who describes the survey which led to the selection of Tarboro for the experiment in munici pal milk collection, pasteurizing, and sell ing.' Tarboro is but one of many thousand little towns w’ith milk supply of less than negligible quality. The several producers of milk furnished the 5,500 odd inhabitants with something like 400 quarts a day. The milk was produced under insanitary, or at best, careless conditions. House holders with single cows sold their sur plus supply to their neighbors. Lost mo tion was incessant through duplication of routes of larger dairymen. The article does not say so but it may be assumed that tlie mortality among babies was as high as it usually is where the milk sup ply is of doubtful purity and cleanness. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION LETTER SERIES NO. 174 OUR FLAG Right now our flag is more in evidence tlian ever before in tlie history of the na tion. This beautiful symbol of our na tional ideals has much of inherent inter est and tradition woven into its very folds with the facts of wliich every man and woman, boy and girl should be fa miliar. Its Age and Meaning Onr American flag is the third oldest national flag in the world. It is a sym bol of liberty; political, social, industrial, religious, educational liberty, and signi fies, obedience to law. It contains thirteen original states from which our Union was formed. These states are: New Hampshire, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina and Georgia. Each of the 48 white stars in the blue field designates a state in our present Union. The arrangement of the stars is regulated by an executive order issued in 1912 which provides for forty-eight stars to be arranged in six horizontal rows of eight stars each. Its Names To this emblem of our national ideals and aspirations four different names have been attached by popular usage: Old Glory, The Stars and Stripes, The Star Spangled Banner, and The Red, AVhite and Blue.—L. A. W. A Town Pasteurizing Plant It was learned that milk could be bought from all producers and pasteur ized in a municipally owned plant at a total cost up to this time of less than ?il,275. iThe town council passed an ordinance wliicli became effective in Oct ober 1918. The pasteurizing plant was was installed at a first cost of 1800. In order to secure abundant free steam for operating purposes, it was placed along side the city light and power plant. Tne town ice plant, also conveniently next door, furnished ice or brine for cooling and refrigeration. Here’s an economic civic center idea that can scarcely be bet tered. The town, says Dr. Miller, does not only the pasteurizing, but the collecting and distributing as well. In other words the town is in the milk business. The producers deliver the milk to 4he pas teurizing plant and receive casli for it daily, weekly, or monthly as they choose. In order to eliminate bookkeeping and to insure against loss in collecting of ac counts, tlie coupon system has been a- dopted; and no milk is delivered without cdllecting coupons which have previously been paid for. Sanitary control measures have not been discarded. On the contrary, these are now applied more effectively because tlie town can simply refuse to buy milk not produced under reasonably clean conditions. It is quite possible for the iiealth officers or a committee of business men to detennine this fact by a periodic inspection of dairies. Breaking Even Tlie town is not aiming to make money, he continues, but to make the plant self- supporting. Tiiat this is being done is attested by Mr. George A. Holdernpss, of Tarboro, who writes that the town is not only taking all tlie milk produced by dairies in town but is buying from country producers, and is utilizing the, surplus milk in making butter. , The price of milk to tlie producer is 12 cents per quart. The consumer is paying 17 cents per quart. Some fami- lie.?, says Mr. Holderness, are still keep ing cows, but they are permitted to sell no milk. All milk sold in Tarboro since last October has gone through the pasteurizing plant. Here is a civic venture tliat deserves to succeed and to be widely imitated. It proves that clean milk may be had by small-town folk as well as big-town folk, and it will undoubtedly assure to them increased healtli and strength as time goes on. The model ordinance under which the Tarboro pasteurizing plant is operated was published in December 1918 and copies may be had upon application to the U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.—E.N. COUNTRY-PASTOR’S WORTH The following is a the record of •a coun try pastor: When he took hold of Red Hill, it was to preach once a month in a worn-out, single room building, worth a few hun dred dollars. His salary was $75 and they gave nothing to missions. The mem bership was eighty-five. In the church yard was a ramsliackle, single room school building, which kept open for four or five months during the year, and not a single boy or girl was going to college from that community. Land values ranged from $2.50 to $5.00 per acre, for Red Hill was still in the shadow' of post-bellum poverty. Tliat was twenty years since. Now the church has three hundred members, pays $350 salary, $235 for missions and benev- oh'uce, and $369 for miscellaneous work, has preaching one Sunday morning and t\\ o afternoons, worships in a neat build ing worth $5,000 and has in the yard a school building worth $3,000, in which four teachers conduct a regular graded school throughout the full school year. Land values in the community are now from $40 to $50 per acre, fifteen boys and girls a year are going from the communi ty to college, and the population has more than doubled through the moving in of people attracted by a community which is live and progressive. The in creased land values alone in that com munity, w'ithin a radius of three miles, due largely to the presence of a live church has been enough to pay the pastor a sal ary of $1000 yearly for 756 years—G. 0. Hedgepeth in News and Obseiwer. THE FARMWIVES RETREAT The Farm “Wife, beginning away back in our grandmothers’ day, began to take her family away from the farm because of the inferior character of the rural school. You will not credit any system of schools with power to redeem as rural life must be redeemed, unless you realize that tlie country school is a much greater thing in the community life than any city school ever has been or perhaps ever can be. The rural school of which I speak is based on the principle, of getting an edu cation out of life—life on the farm. It means, of course, reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography, science, poetry, music, games—whatever is inter esting to children and young people. But its fundamental idea is the study of the life of the people of the neighborhood, and the solution of the problems of that life. It tests cows as to butterfat content of milk, and determines which coiVs are profitable and can profitably furnish milk for liome consumption as well as for the cities and towns. It deals w'itli sewage disposal and with those bacteria which infect food with disease. It designs fann buildings. It cans and preserves. It sews and darns and cooks. It determines the proper ration for domestic animals, in order that farming may be profitable, and at the same time it finds out the proper ration for people. It finds out why there is smut or blight or rust in crops, or worms in roots, or borers in trees, or fungus or bacterial pests in fruit or grass or grain crop—and how to avoid or controFthese things.— Herbert Quick, The Ladies Home Jour nal. NO PEACE WITHOUT IT Every reasonable observer who has been on the other side, says Henry Van Dyke in the N. Y. Globe—General Maurice, Andre Tardieu, Philip Gibbs, Frederick Palmer, Henry Morgenthau, ex-Attorney-General Wickersham —all agree that there is no chance of getting real peace without the League. ' It is therefore not only this League or none but it is this League or no lasting peace in the world.—Current Opinion.
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