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.1 The news b this publica tion is released (or the press on THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA receipt. NEWS LETTER Published weekly by the University of North Carolba (or its Bureau of Extension. SEPTEMBER 10,1919 CHAPEL HHJ., N. C. VOL. V, NO. 42 fidiiorial Bourd t B, O. Branson, J. G, deR. Hamilton, L. R. Wilson, D. D. Carroll, G. M. MoKie. Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the PostolB.ce at Chapel HIU, N« C., tinder the act of August 24,1913, II PUBLIC WELFARE PROGRAM STATE AND COUNTY COUNCIL 'Chapel Hill, N. C. September 15-20, 1919, Governor T. W. Biokett, presiding. Under the auspices of the Governor of Worth Carolina, the State University, the the State Association of County Commis sioners, and the State Departments •charged with carrying into efl'ect our new Public Welfare Laws; the State Board of Education, the State Board of Health, I, '.the State Board of Public Welfare, the : State Tax Commission, the State High way Commission. A Conference of Juvenile Court Judges, Probation and Parole Officers, County Welfare Board Members and Superin tendents, School Attendance Officers and Factory Inspectors, County Health Offi cers and Public Health Nurses, County Highway Officials, County Commission ers, County and District Tax Assess ors, County School Boards and Superin- aendents, ,their volunteer allies, and all other civic-minded citizens of North Car olina. PROGRAM Monday Evening Sept. 15 Address of Welcome.—Dr. H. W. Ohase, President of the State University. Address.—Governor T. W. Bickett. Tuesday, Sept. 16 9;00 Unified County Government un der Responsible Headship.—Lead ers, Hon. W. C. Boren, Chair man Guilford County Commis sioners, Hon. W. C. Jones, Presi dent State Association of County Commissioners, Hon. R. K. Dav enport, Chairman Gaston Coun ty Commissioners. "J.0;00 Cur New Educational System.— Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction. 11:30 The Public Health Problem.—Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary State Board of Health. 12:30 What is Expected of County Wel fare Boards and Superintendents. —Hon. R. F. Beasley, Secretary State Board of Public Welfare. 3:30 The Revaluation Act.—Governor T. W. Bickett. 4:30 Development of the County Sys tem pf Roads. The Necessity for a County Roads Engineer.—W. L. Spoon, Engineer U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Evening Hour. Illustrated Lecture: The Consolidation of School Districts. George Howard, Jr., Superintend ent, Edgecombe County Schools. Wednesday, Sept. 17 "9:00 Objects and Alethoda of County Health Work.—Dr. A. J. War ren, Assistant Secretary, State Board of Health. .10:00 The Fee and Salary Systems. The County Fee Fund: Its Impor tance.—Leaders, Hon. W. A. Mc- Girt, Chairman New Hanover County Commissioners. Hon. W. J. Johnson, Asheville, N. 0. 11:30 The Development of a State High way System by Connecting Inter- couiity Roads.—Hon. Frank Page, Chairman State Highway Com mission. 12:30 Coordination of County Exten sion Agents with the New Educa tional System.—Dr. B. W. Kil gore, State Director of Farm Ex tension Work. -3:30 Administration of our Tax Laws. —Hon. W. T. Lee, Chairman State Corporation Commission. ■4:30 Practical Work of the Juvenile Court and Probation Officer.— Judge Charles N. Feidelson, Sa vannah, Ga. Evening Hour. Modern Principles of Social Welfare.—Amos W. But ler, Secretary Indiana State Board of Charities and Corrections. Thursday, Sept. 18 '9:00 Case Work in handling Depend ent, Delinquent, and Neglected Children.— Mrs. Clarence W. Johnson, Director of the Child Welfare Division of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. 10:00 Objects and Methods of County Health Work.—Dr. B. E. Wash- bum, Director of Rural Sanita tion, State Board of Health. 11:30 Cooperation of the Federal Gov ernment in Building State Roads. —E. W. James, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. 12:30 Uniform County Account Keeping and Reporting: Why and How.— Leader: Geo. G. Scott, Chairman State Board Public Accountancy. 3:30 The Income Tax and Solvent Credits Amendments.—Ex-Judge George P. Pell, State Corporation Commission. 4:30 County Government as it Might be in North Carolina.—Hon. Geo W. Connor, Wilson, N, C. Evening Hour. The Model Plan of State and Local Taxation.—Dr. Charles J. Bullock, Department of Eco nomics, Harvard University. Friday, Sept. 19 9:00 Unifying the Teacher Training Forces of a County.—A. T. Allen, State Board of Examiners and In stitute Conductors. 10:00 Conservation of Childhood.—Dr. George M. Cooper, Director of Medical Inspection of Schools, and Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn, Director Bureau of Infant Hy giene, State Board of Health. 11:30 Practical Organization of the Work of the County Welfare Su perintendent.—A. S. McFarlane, County Superintendent of Public Welfare, Forsyth County. 12:30 The Tax Question from the Tax payer’s Standpoint.—Hon. A. J. Maxwell, Chairman State Tax Commission. 3:30 Economy and Efficiency in Road Construction.—W. S. Fallis, State Highway Engineer. 4:30 State-wide Auditing of County Ac counts: Why and How.—Lead ers: W. F. Woodward, Wilson County, Charles S. Wallace, Car teret Board of County Commis sioners. Evening Hour. A Complete Program of State Health Work.—Dr. Allen W. Freeman, Commissioner of Health of Ohio. Saturday, Sept. 20 9:00 The Public Health Outlook in North Carolina.—Dr. W. S. Ran kin. 9:30 A More Efficient School System. Dr. E. C. Brooks. 10:00 Maintenance, the Solution of Sat isfactory Highways.—Hon. Frank Page. 10:30 Resume of Council Tax Discus sions.—Hon. A. J. Maxwell. 11:15 The Function of Directed Play and Organized Recreation in Child Welfare.—R. K. Atkinson, Cliair- J man Recreation A.ssociation, Sag Harbor, N. Y. 11:45 Committee Reports, Resolutions, etc. 12:00 Governor Bickett, Closing Ad- dres.s. FREE DENTAL SERVICE A system of free traveling dental serv ice for rural-school children was estab lished by tiie State Board of Health of North Carolina in July, 1918. This ex periment was begun after examination of some 200,000 school children in North Carolina showed that at least 75 per cent had beginning decay in permanent teeth. Less than 10 per cent of these children had ever visited a dentist except for the pupose of having an aching tooth ex tracted. The records also proved that at least 90 out of every 100 parents never made any eflbrt to have their children’s teeth treated by a dentist. This neglect is attributed by State au- thorites to several causes. 1. Poverty. 2. Ignorance and indifference. 3. Morbid fear of the dentist. 4. Hesitancy of many dentists to accept young children as patients. 5. Lack of specific instruction in the public scliool on the care of the teeth. WorK Educational The prime object of the work is, of course, educational. The preference has been given to children between 6 and 12 THE TRUE HOME John RusKin This is the true nature of home—it is tlie place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all ter ror, doubt and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home. So far as tlie anxieties of the outer life pene trate into it, and the inconsistently minded, unknown, unloved, or hos tile society of the outer world is allow ed by either husband or wife to cross tlie threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of that outer world whicli you have roofed over, and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watclied by liousehold gods, before wliose face none may come, but those whom they can re ceive with love—so far as it is tliis, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light,—shade as of the rock in a weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea;—so far it vindicates the name and fulfills the praise of home. And wherever a true wife comes, this home is always round her. The stars only may be over her liead; the glow-worm in tlie night-cold grass may be the only fire at her feet: but home is yet wherever she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, better than ceiled witli cedar, or painted with Vermillion, bhedding its quiet light far, for those who else were homeless. we might prevent its being generally re ceived and thereby lose all the salutary effects and great advantages resulting naturally in our favor among foreign nations as well as among ourselves from our real or apparent unanimity. On the whole. Sir, I cannot help ex pressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little his own infallibility, and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument. A NEGRO PREACHR’S WISDOM The subsidence of race-prejudice was not coincident with the downfall of Ger many, nor will it be with the formation of the Leagueof Nations, if effected. The white man has it, the black man has it —most men, everywhere, still have it. He who arouses in the negro expecta tions of a speedy democratic solution of all his depressing race-problems will, I fear, do him much harm. It will give fre quent occasions for irritating disappoint ments, which would work evil in various ways. I say to my people: Be patient! Not the patience of insensible apathy nor indeed of passive docility, but of active peaceful effort, and.,of patient ‘watchful waiting.’ The possibility of rising is the inspiring angel of effort, and that possi bility is ours. The race is climbing. The forces of interracial amity and brotherly reciprocity are mobilizing. Race dis crimination, here and there, is beginning to betray the relenting face of self-con- , demning shame. Mob violence will be I stopt. Be patient! Be upright! Be in all things honorable. We are living in the years of age, and in some of tlie sections the work has been restricted entirfely to children under 10 years old. Tlie idea is twofold: First, to teacli tlie very small children practical care of the teeth, getting them to form the habit of regular visits to the dentist; and second by filling or other treatment, preserve the children’s teetli until past puberty when they will be able to realize the im portance of dental care. The actual treatment given has been of course, limited in class, but ranges all tlie way from cleaning and extraction to tlie placing of permanent amalgam fillings in permanent teeth.—Scliool Life. ; early morning of a glorious day, whose [ moral splendor shall illumine the world, I but we must labor and wait till the noon ' cometh—we can not go to it. The heights ■ attained will never be abandoned. The good work begun will go foward with I subduing power and with ever-unfolding ! rectitude. ‘Till tlie war-drums throb no longer, and the battle-flags are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world!’—J. AVill Jackson, D. D., of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, in The Southwestern Christion Advocate, New Orleans. BEN FRANKLIN’S WISDOM I confess that tliere are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at pre sent approve. But having lived long, I liave experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to cliange opinions even on important subjects, whicli 1 once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that tlie older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and pay more respect to the 'judgment of others. I doubt too whether any other conven tion we can obtain may be able to make a better Constituton. For when you as semble a number of men to liave the ad vantage of their joint wisdom, you in evitably assemble with tliose men all their prejudices, their passions, tlieir er rors of opinion, tlieir local interests, and selfish veiws. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does, and I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with confi dence to hear that our councils are con founded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another’s throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacri fice to the public good. I have never whispered asyllable of them abroad. Witli- in these walls they were born, and here they sliall die. If every one of us in re turning to our constituents were to report the objections he has had to it and endea vor to gain partisans in support of them, CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE Tliose of us who are struggling witli the country-life problem in the South believe that the culture of the farmer is more im portant than the farmer’s agriculture; and that the farmer’s home and children are mpre precious than the farmer’s fields and farm animals, barns and bank balances. Here are important questions that we face daily: Will the new industrial city civilization of tlie Soutli bring about de pletion and decay in our rural regions, as it has done elsewhere in America? Are we doomed to a one-crop civilization bas ed on tenancy farming? Will the appar ently permanent high prices of food stuffs tempt us into diversified farming? Or must tlie business of the South be repeat edly paralyzed by low-priced cotton, be fore we can give ourselves to diversified farm activities? Or will we wait to take our lesson from the boll weevil, as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Geor gia liave done? Who can say? One of the characters in Mrs. Abbott’s story. The Sick-a-Bed Lady, says: “Up to the time he’s thirty, no man has done the things he wants to do, but only the things that have happened to come his way. He is forced into business to please his father, and cajoled into the Episcopal Church to please his mother, and bullied into red neckties to pjease sister Isabel. But having once reached the grown-up, level-headed, independent age of thirty, a man’s a fool who doesn’t sit down de liberately and list out, one by one, the things that he wants—and go ahead and get them.” Now, tlie South is grown-up, and level headed enough to sit down and deliber ately list out the things that she needs for permanent well-being. Fundamental Needs She needs, first and most of all, to preserve sanely and safely the balance between her country life and industrial civilization. To this end, she needs improved pub lic highways, cross country trams ard telephones, improved health conditions, modern conveniences and comforts in her country liomes, applied science and labor saving machinery on lier farms, and new ideals and activities in her country schools and churches. But we must realize that none of these are possible to a civilization based upon landless, homeless, ignorant, unakilied labor; that civilization is bottomed on the home-owning, home-loving, home- defending instinct; and that economic salvation depends upon a multiplied host of small farmers who till the land they own and who own tlie land they till. True, we cannot go ahead and get all these things in a jiffy; but we can strug gle toward these ends witli fervent love of our motherland and with unyielding hope and courage. The South has bravely set her hand to her task. Her agricultural colleges are achieving wonders. Her teacher training schools have been forced into a study of the country-life problem; because, popu lation considered, the country school bulks big. It is 83 percent of the whole problem of public education in the South. In tile colleges and universities of the South, if anywhere in the world, there ought to be really effective courses in ru ral economics and sociology, We shall doubtless have them in good time. In any event I dare to say that tlie South is not a Sick-a-Bed Lady, but a strong man, ready and rejoicing like a bridegroom to run a race.—E. C. Bran son, address before the American Eco nomics Association. A SAVOR OF LIFE I have no sort of hesitation in saying tiiat the President of these free states has a vision of world righteousness and peace, of the fine art of national living, such as never before informed and animated the head of a great and purposeful people. And so, as a genuine American, I am righteously proud of him in his righteous purpose to teach righteousness to the na tions, to bring disorder and wars and their waste and misery to an end, to es tablish a just, constructive and enduring peace throughout the world—this strong- jawed American school-teacher whom all the nations look up to. Wilhelm was a savor of death unto death, a vessel unto dishonor; Wilson, a embodiment of the American spirit, a savor of life, a vessel unto honor, meet for the Master’s service. I bid him God speed, therefore, in the right formation of a righteous league of nations for the rehabilitation of this wasted earth, and the prevention of tlie destruction and misery and death incident upon social disorder and war.—Dr. Cyrus Thompson, retiring president State Medical Society. VALUES THE NEWS LETTER We have a daily conference of the eight- y members of our staft' to consider mat ters aftecting onr business and to receive suggestions from the members of the staff. At this conference the other day Mr. M. A. White, who, by the way, is a Car olina man, made the following sugges tion : For the last few years I have been read ing a weekly periodical that has more real meat in it concerning county and state conditions, than I believe any other ten papers in the State. I refer to the University News Letter. I think every person interested in our State, whether from a selfish or unselfish standpoint, owes the publishers of this little sheet a word of commendation. My suggestion is this: let the Com pany express its appreciation of tlie ef forts of the publishers of this paper in any manner wliich may suggest itself, with the request that if possible the News Letter be sent to our North Carolina agents each week. No doubt some of our agents already see this Letter, but I be lieve that all of them should. From time to time they will be able to get informa tion and ideas from this source which may be a help to them in soliciting life insurance and serving their clientele.— H. B. Gunter, Southern Life and Trust Co., Greensboro, N. C. EQUALLY BAD There is an active minority of po.werful capitalists and employers intent upon establishing in the United States a dictatorship of plutocracy. There is an equally active and even more determined minority on the labor side determined to a dictatorship of tlie proletariat. Neither can succeed except by wreck ing the existing industrial and social structure of the United States—Basil Manly, Joint Chairman of the War Lalaor Board.
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