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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
E 23,1920
CHAPEL HHX, N. C.
VOL VI, NO. 31
kal Board . R. C. Branson, L. R. Wilson, B. W. Knight, D. D, Carroll, J. B. Bullitt.
Entered as second.«laas matter November 14, 1914, at the Postofflee at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24, 1912.
STATE UNIVERSITY PLANTS
THE N. C. CLUB
e University of North Carolina has
itly published a bulletin on State
nstruction Studies. This publica-
like bulletins which have preceded
the result of a cooperative ef-
of students in the department of
economics and sociology. The ac
es of the North Carolina Club, in
organization under the leadership
•of. E. C. Branson, are an interesting
onstration of an experiment in par-
lation of the University m the ser-
of the state.—The American Jour-
of Sociology.
PLAIN COMMON SENSE
et’s get down from the theory, says
2-President Marshall, that we must
.er make all the money that we can
ly for tomorrow we die, or we must
nd all the money we have today for
r there will be none tomorrow. Let
mderstand that American prosperity
not continue if the farms and fac
ies of this country are to produce
s and people are to increase and con-
ne more. And what is the use talk-
about Congress, or courts, or any
,er human instrumentality setting
de the plain laws of nature?—The
ntgomery Advertiser.
direction, a musical festival under Pro
fessor Weaver’s direction, lectures on
Jewish literature and history by Rabbi
Sidney Tedesche, of Ohio, the produc
tion of Shakespearian and Irish plays
by the Frank McEntee Company, and a
violin recital by Irma Seydel, of Bos
ton, a model school conducted by Prin
cipal Fred W. Morrison, of the Chapel
Hill school, and many social activities.
— Lenoir Chambers.
A BUSY SUMMER TERM
ndications point to the largest at-
dance at the University summer
001 in its 33 years, said Professor N.
Walker, director, today. Every room
the college dormitories has already
in taken and most of the available
ims in town have been asked for.
re than 1,000 applications are already
and as more are being received every
T it is probable that the record of
52 students in 1916 will be passed.
2 shall have to turn away several
[idred students who want to attend
nmer school.
rhe summer session begins June
one week after commencement, and
1 last six weeks, closing August 6.
e Public Welfare Institutes-will con-
ue until September 13. In addition
ire will be a special institute for Child
-Ifare July 6-10, for Commercial Sec-
;aries Aug. 9-14, and the second meet-
- of the State and County Council will
2ur Aug. 10-12. I
Noted Lecturers |
Vlany applications from outside the
ite have been received for the new
blic Welfare Institutes conducted j
ntly by the university school of public
ilfare and the southern division of the
nerican Red Cross for social workers,
lecial lecturers at this institute will
2lude Dr. Samuel McC. Lindsay, of
ilumbia University; Dr. Bernard
ueck, of the New York School of So
il Work; Dr. Frank P. Watson, direc-
r of the Pennsylvania School for So
il Service; Drs. E. L. Morgan, J. F.
einer, and Joseph C. Logan, of the
2d Cross; Commissioner R. F. Beas-
y. Dr. W. S. Rankin, Superintendent
C. Brooks, and others.
In the summer school proper for
achers and college students the Uni-
irsity faculty will be supplemented by
rofessors J. F. Royster, of the Uni-
srsity of Texas, Harry Clark, of the
niversity of Tennessee, W. C. George,
: the University of Georgia, George
J. Hunter, of Carleton College, Stuart
. Noble, of Millsaps College, E. L.
ox, of Randolph-Macon, and by Super-
iSor L. C. Brogden, Superintendent H.
. Marrow, of Smithfield, John J. Blair,
AN IDEAL CITY
A city, sanitary, convenient, substan
tial;
Where the houses of the rich and
poor are alike—comfortable and beau
tiful;
Where the streets are clean and the
sky line is clear as country air;
Where the architectural excellence of
its buildings adds beauty and dignity to
its streets;
Where parks and play grounds . are
within reach of every child;
Where living is pleasant, toil honor
able, and recreation plentiful;
Where capital is respected, but not
worshipped;
Where commerce in goods is great,
but no greater than the interchange of
ideas;
I Where industry thrives and brings
i prosperity to employer and employed;
I Where education and art have a place
' in every home;
Where worth and not wealth gives
standing to men;
j Where the power of character lifts
men to leadership;
, Where interest in public affairs is a
test of citizenship, and devotion to the
public weal is a badge of honor;
i Where government is always honest
and efficient and the principles of de
mocracy find their fullest and truest
expression;
; Where the people of all the earth can
j come and be blended into one commu-
■ nity life, and where each generation
will vie with the past to transmit to the
next a city greater, better and more
beautiful than the last.—General Feder
ation Magazine.
FLORENCE
In Florence, around the year 1300
Giotto painted a picture, and the
day it was hung in St. Mark’s the
town closed down for a holiday, and
the people, with garlands of flowers
and songs, escorted the picture from
the artist’s studio to the church.
Three weeks ago I stood, in company
with 500 silent, sallow-faced men,
at a corner in Wall Street, a
cold and wet corner, till young
Morgan issued from J. P. Morgan
and Company, and walked 20 feet to
his carriage.
We produce, probably, per capita,
1000 times more in weight of ready
made clothing, Irish lace, artificial
flowers, terra cotta, movie-films,
telephones, and printed matter than
those Florentines did, but we have,
with our 100,000,000 inhabitants, yet
to produce that little town, her
Dante, her Andrea Del Sarto, her
Michael Angelo, her Leonardo da
Vinci, her Savonarola, her Giotto, or
the group who followed Giotto’s pic
ture.
Florence had a marvelous energy-
released experience. But what
about America?—Carleton H. Parker,
in An American Idyll.
COUNTRY HOME CONVENIENCES
LETTER SERIES No. 15
32 vs nO-VOLT LIGHTING PLANTS—I
We have beemhaving some mighty in
teresting correspondence lately with the
advertising department of one of the
biggest national weeklies, a magazine
that has been running feature adver-
^sements of several farm lighting sets,
^his magazine carried an advertisement
not long ago of a 110-volt lighting
plant. The most prominent claim for
this plant was that the full power of
the plant could be delivered anywhere
within a radius of a mile on No. 10 cop
per wire.
Impossible Engineering
We called the attention of the adver
tising manager of the magazine to the
impossibility of this claim so far as No.
10 wire was concerned and the absurdity
of it considering the amount of power
involved which was larger than the gen
eral run of farm lighting sets. The
manufacturer replied by admitting that
the size given. No. 10, was a typograph
ical error.
So far so good, but that was not
enough. The manufacturer apparently
failed to catch the real point of our
criticism. So back we went with our
facts and showed him that to deliver
the full power of his plant at a distance
of one mile and have the voltage at the
end of the line high enough to light the
lamps properly would take wires so
large and heavy that the expense would
be prohibitive.
It Can’t Be Done
We have just had a reply to this criti
cism. The manufacturer admits that we
are right and tha t it was an error to
make such a claim.
From an engineering standpoint it
simply can’t be done. The cost of the
wire alone to do what this advertise
ment claimed would be over $2000. Just
figure the interest on that. There isn’t
a farm lighting plant on the market to
day that can deliver its full power at a
distance of one mile. The 110-volt plant
can deliver power farther than the 32-
volt plant. There’s no question about
that. We’ll tell you why in our next
letter.—P. H. D.
STATE UNIVERSITY PLANTS
Carolina is the oldest state University
in America.
On paper it is as old as the Declara
tion of Independence, having been pro
vided for in the Halifax Constitution of
1776. As old as the Federal Constitu
tion, having been chartered by the state
legislature in 1789.
The corner stone of the first building
was laid in 1793, and two years later
the doors of Carolina swung open to
students.
In very fact Carolina is the oldest
state university in the Union.
Gasoline and Culture
At present North Carolina has 54
cents per inhabitant invested in uni
versity properties—and 50 dollars per
inhabitant invested in automobiles!
In 126 years we have built up a uni
versity plant worth one and a third mil
lion dollars. In ten years we have
bought up a hundred million dollars
worth of motor cars!
We are buying motor cars faster than
any other state in the Union, says the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce-fifty million dollars worth a
year! A hundred and forty thousand
dollars worth a day, including Sundays.
We are skyrocketing toward the top
of the automobile column; but in com
mon school and university investments
we soar aloft like Icarus of old, like
‘Darius Green and his Flying Machine’!
But in the end the lift and level of
Carolina’s civilization will be measured
by the brain power of her people and
OUR CITY PROBLEMS
The North Carolina Club held its last
meeting of the year Monday night.
May 31, with W. E. Price in charge of
the program. Mr. Price made an in
teresting and elaborate report on Civic
Organization.
He began by showing the remarkably
rapid growth of industrial towns and
cities in the State during the last two
decades. Instead of a rural population
of over 79 per cent in 1910 we now have
a network of industrial towns which
have sprung up almost over night and
several large cities. The tide has been
flowing from the country to the towns
in North Carolina until it has become
the best developed industrial state in
the south. Under the pressure of the
new flood of population the old loose
organizations and customs of town life
have proved entirely inadequate and in
efficient. Civic organization has become
a new problem.
After pointing out the defects of the
present systems of civic government
and custom he submitted several propo
sals for the re-organization of our towns
and cities. For the city of 5,000 or
over he advocated the commission-man
ager form of government and proposed
that the city should stimulate its vari
ous service bodies to make accurate
I
The oldest but not the richest in cam
pus properties—inland values, buildings, not by the gas engine power of her mo-
apparatus, and equipments. Among tor cars.
the forty-one states reporting in 1918-19,
she stood twenty-fourth from the top
of the column. See the table elsewhere
in this issue.
The latest authoritative
makes North Carolina by long odds the
richest state in the South in per capita
wealth. Nevertheless six southern states
outrank us in the value of university
The classroom, dormitory, and mess
hall space of the university need to be
doubled.
Her 1500 students in the regular col-
summary ' lege and summer school terms already
plants,
1
as follows:
Texas
$2,941,636
2
Virginia
. 2,432,560
3
Georgia
. 2,000,000
4
'fennessee
.. 1,662,889
5
■Oklahoma
. 1,558,366
6
Alabama
.. 1,480,000
7
North Carolina..
.. 1,366,000
surveys of the city’s condition, needs,
E Wilmington, E. D. Pusey, of Dur-' and possible and probable growth, and
am, Samuel L. Sheep, of Elizabeth that measures providing for these needs
Jty, and Misses Mary V. Carney, of > undertaken.
tentral High School, St. Paul, Helen ! For towns of less than 6,000 he pro-
L. Field, of Oak Lane Day School, POsed similar measures to those for the
‘hiladelphia, Martha I. Giltner, of the
ied Cross, Grace Griswold, director of
le Theatre Workshop, New York,
ienriette Masseling, of the city schools
f Atlanta, Mary Poore, of the city
chools of Birmingham, Mrs. Mamie
ease, of the Durham schools, and
iany,others.
Special Features
Special features for the summer in-
lude dramatic productions by the Caro-
na Playmakers under Professor Koch’s
cities, with the additional proposal that
the town undertake a definite work of
co-ordination between its own economic,
social and institutional life and that of the
people in the surrounding countryside.
After Mr. Price’s discussion. Dr.
Branson outlined the plans for the de
partment of social science or public
welfare that is to be established at the
University this year, and showed the
great service that it with the depart
ment of rural economics and sociology
can render to the state.—The Tar Heel.
It is reasonable for Texas and Virgi
nia to stand ahead of us in university
properties. Texas is five times the size
of North Carolina, and her people are
nearly twice as many, while the civili
zation of Virginia is around a half cen
tury older than ours.
Outstripping Carolina
But we had a running start of Geor
gia by eighty years or so. Neverthe
less, her university plant overtops ours
by more than six hundred thousand dol
lars in value!
And a running start of Alabama by
forty years or so, but her university
plant at Tuscaloosa already outvalues
Carolina’s plant at Chapel Hill, and the
Alabama legislature has recently au
thorized a million-dollar fund for cam
pus buildings, equipments, and exten
sions. Even Mississippi has just ap
propriated $700,000 for university build
ings and equipments and $300,000 for
annual maintenance!
As for Tennessee, Carolina’s fair
daughter, she outstrips
state by $300,000
ties.
And Oklahoma in less than twenty
years has created a university plant
worth $200,000 more than ours, while
her annual appropriation for mainten
ance is nearly $160,000 a year greater.
demand almost exactly twice the space
available today—to say nothing of the
future.
Nothing but buildings and equipments
and working income limit the ability of
the University to serve the state. The
University is a tried and at last a proven
agency of developing democracy and
nothing limits its power to serve the
state but the will of her people to equip
it for service.
We could just as easily have 5000 as
1600 students here, if only the state
would provide the facilities.
Rip van WinKle
We are not abashed by the way the
Middle Western and Pacific coast states
have outstripped us in university in
vestments and supporting funds—by
Michigan’s eight million dollar plant, or
Wisconsin’s nine million dollar plant, or
Minnesota’s eleven million dollar plant,
or California’s sixteen million dollar
plant.
But when six Southern states move
on ahead of us in university properties,
and four in university maintenance
funds—little Arizona among the num
ber, we begin to wonder whether or not
Carolina with all her wealth will be con
tent to idle along the way in the march
of Southern commonwealths.
It is high time for the state to think
in big-scale fashion about this founda
tional matter of public education—about
her common schools, high schools, tech
nical schools, and university alike.
Our lead in the South in wealth is
plainer than print but our lead in public
education facilities is in doubt and the
state cannot afford to leave in doubt
this fundamental concern of her civili
zation.
The Sage Foundation reports nine
southern states ahead of us in public
school affairs: they are New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, and
Georgia.
And the Federal Education Bureau
reports eight southern states ahead of
us in university properties or state main
tenance funds—in one or the other or
both particulars: they are Arizona, Ok
lahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Virginia, and Texas.
North Carolina has been lovingly
called the Rip van Winkle of states.
What was once said in love by one of
her own sons, may soon be said in deri
sion by aliens and strangers.
STATE UNIVERSITY PLANTS
Covering the college year, 1918-19. Based on the reports of the state uni
versities to the Federal Bureau of Education and on answers to inquiries sent
out by the department of Rural Social Science, University of North Carolina.
the mother
in university proper-
H
Rank University
Plant
Rank University
Plant
1.
California
$16,576,502
22.
Indiana
...$1,600,000
?
2.
Minnesota
11,647,363
23.
Alabama
... 1,480,000
3.
New York—Cornell ...
10,063,400
24.
North Carolina
. 1,354,965
4.
Wisconsin
8,986,206
26.
South Carolina
... 1,343,033
i
5.
Michigan
8,075,660
26.
Kentucky
... 1,269,293
i
6.
Ohio
8,007,489
27.
Utah
... 1,225,700
!
7.
Illinois
7,693,122
28;
Louisiana ..
... 1,200,000
8.
Iowa
6,068,716
28.
Idaho
... 1,200,000
:■
9.
Nebraska
. 4,824,663
30.
Oregon
... 1,116,887
: .
10.
West Virginia
. 3,000,000
31.
North Dakota
... 1,096,074
1
1
11.
Texas
. 2,941,636
32.
Maine
... 1,042,239
i
12.
Penn. State College ...
. 2,743,479
33.
Arizona
13.
Washington
. 2,712,265
34.
Wyoming
14.
Virginia
. 2,432,660
36.
South Dakota
;
15.
Kansas
. 2,076,874
36.
Arkansas
... 824,000
16.
Georgia
. 2,000,000
37.
Nevada
j
117.
New Jersey—Rutgers.
. 1,804,287
38.
Florida
\
18.
Tennessee
. 1,662,889
39.
Montana
19.
Del. State College
.. 1,629,081
40.
R. I. State College.
... 486,612
Iv
20.
Colorado
. 1,600,000
41.
New Mexico
21.
Oklahoma
. 1,668,366
-t
Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut,
and New Hampshire
maintain no
state university or college of liberal arts at state expense in whole or in part.
Missouri, Vermont, and Mississippi have so far returned no reports.