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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTEH
Published Weekly by the
University of North Caro
lina for its University Ex
tension Division.
JANUARY 18, 1922
CHAPEL HELL, N. C.
, VOL. VIII, NO. 9
Editorial Board
, B. O. rfrandOii, S. H. Hobbs. Jr., L. R. Wilson, E. W. Kui^ht, D. D. Carroll.^. B. BuUitt, H. W. Odum,
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the PostolBce at Chapel Hill, N. 0., under the act of August 24, 1912.
FOR THE EDITOR’S EYE
To the Newspapers of North Caro
lina: At the meeting of the North Caro
lina Press Association several months
ago the following resolution was adopt
ed:
“Resolved, That we suggest that the
foremost authorities on each great sub
ject in North Carolina be requested to
prepare a three-inch statement as to
North Carolina’s progress or possibili
ties with regard to his particular field—
as, for example, water-powers, drain
age, library development, public health,
schoolhouse building, roads, etc., and
that each newspaper be requested dur
ing the coming twelve months to carry
one such inspiring, informing three-
inch message under the general head,
Know North Carolina.” ,
The undersigned have been named as
a special committee to carry out the
purposes of this resolution in the year
1922 and a large proportion of the news
papers of the state have signified their
intention to carry the service.
In order to save expense, it has been
thought advisable to publish in the
University News Letter each week the
special article which interested news
papers will be asked to carry the fol
lowing week.
The first article in this series, Bick-
ett’s Dream of a Greater North Caro
lina, is offered Jierewith and should be
used during the week beginning Mon
day, January 23. In the News Letter
each week hereafter one additional ar
ticle will appear.
The committee regrets that unavoid
able circumstances have prevented
starting this series earlier, hut we are
gratified at the interest which has been
shown in it by the press of the state.
With the generous cooperation of
the men and women whose support we
are iivviting, we believe that this series
are iAviting, we believe that this series Clark,
can be ,made of greatvalueto our North Carolina’i
What North Carolina Needs—Gover
nor Cameron Morrison, Hon. Josephus
Daniels, Senator F. M. Simmons, Judge
Walter Clark, Judge H. G. Connor,
David H. Blair, A. W. McLean, Judge
W. A. Hoke, Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Leon
ard Tufts, Dr. H. W. Odum, W. A.
Graham, Henry A. Page, 0. Max Gard
ner, Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Hon. Locke
Craig, B. N. Duke, Dr. E. C. Lihde-
man, Dr. W. L. Poteat, Bishop John C.
Kilgo, Miss Mary 0. Graham, Mrs.
Lindsay Patterson, and others.
The Spirit of North Carolina-Dr.
Edwin A. Alderman.
North Carolina’s Agricultural Pro
gress—B. W. Kilgore.
North Carolina’s Educational Pro
gress—E. C. Brooks.
The Church Schools of North Caro
lina—W. T. Few.
The Country Schools of North Caro
lina—E. W. Knight. |
North Carolina’s Climate— Clarence 1
Poe.
North Carolina’s Water Powers—Dr.
J. H. Pratt.
North Carolina’s Forests—Dr. J. H.
Pratt. j
North Carolina’s Public Roads—Frank
Page,
Library Work in North Carolina Cities
—Miss Mary B. Palmer.
North Carolina’s Public Health Work
—Dr. W. S. Rankin.
County Agents and their Job—B. W.
Kilgore.
Home Agents and their Job—Mrs.
Jane S. McKimmon.
County Welfi&re Officers and their
Job—Mrs. Clarence A. Johnson.
Training Social Workers in North
Carolina—H. W. Odum.
North Carolina’s Club Women and
their Work—Mrs. W."T. Bost.
North Carolina's Cotton Manufactur-
Cdll wc -- O
Carolina people in awakening them to
their needs and opportunities,—Com
mittee: Clarence Poe, L. R. Wilson, E,
C. Branson.
KNOW NORTH CAROLINA
At a recent meeting of the North
Carolina Press Association the follow
ing resolution was adopted: ’
“Resolved, That we suggest that the
foremost authorities of each great sub
ject in North Carolina be requested to
prepare a three-inch statement as to
North Carolina’s progress or possibili
ties with regard to his particular field—
as, for example, waterpowers, drainage,
library development, public health,
schoolhouse building, roads, etc., and
that each newspaper be requested dur
ing the coming twelve months to carry
one such inspiring, informing three-
inch message each week under the gen
eral head. Know North Carolina.
In accordance with this resolution a
committee was appointed consisting of
Clarence Poe, E. C. Branson, and L. R.
Wilson. The committee has undertaken
the task of collecting these informing,
concise, clear-cut statements about
North Carolina’s progress and possibili
ties, and one such article will appear
weekly in the press of the state.
The first article in this series appears
elsewhere in this issue and we expect
to use as many of them as conditions
will permit.
Each editor who dontemplates using
these concise Know-North-Carolina ar
ticles is invited to make his own an
nouncement of the series. In case any
editor prefers to do so, however, he
may use the announcement printed
above, preferably running it in the same
issue in which the Bickett quotation
appears.
SUBJECTS AND WRITERS
For the information of North Caro
lina readers,we attach a tentative list
of subjects and writers for the Know
North Carolina series. The committee
will appreciate it if any interested North
Carolinian will suggest other subjects
that ought to have a place in this series
and the best man or woman to handle
each subject.
A Greater North Carolina—Hon. T.
W. Bickett.
North Carolina’s Public Moving Pic
tures—W. C. Crosby.
What the Draft Act Showed about
North Carolina—J. W. Bailey.
The E^pding Habit in North Carolina
—L. R. Wilson.
Agricultural and Industrial Training
in North Carolina-T. E. Browne.
North Carolina’s Community Schools
-Miss Elizabeth Kelly.
North Carolina’s Traveling Libraries
—Miss Mary B. Palmer.
What the Historical Commission Has
Done-R. D. W.-Connor.
North Carolina Needs More White
Settlers—Clarence Poe.
Nature’s Conspiracy to Make North
Carolina Great—Bion H. Butler.
Opportunities in Eastern North Caro
lina—W. A. McCirt.
Opportunities in^Western North Caro
lina—N. Buckner.
Home and Farm Ownership in North
Carolina—B. C. Branson.
Wealth-Production and Wealth-Re
tention in North Carolina—E. C. Bran
son.
The Negro Population of North Ca
rolina—N. C. Newbold.
North Carolina as a Resort State—
Bion H. Butler.
Community Drama in North Carolina
-Frederick H, Koch.
Free Literature on Health Subjects—
W. S. Rankin.
Free Literature on School Subjects-
N. W. Walker.
Free Literature on Gardening and
Orcharding—R. W. Green.
Free Literature on Cotton, Tobacco,
and Corn—R. W. Green.
Free Literature on Dairy and Live
stock Subjects—R. W. Green.
Public High Schools in North Caro
lina—N. W. Walker. ,
Credit Unions in North Carolina—
Fred R. Yoder.
Opportunities for Beauty in Rural
North Carolina—John J. Blair.
Hogs in North Carolina—W. W. Shay.
Dairying in North Carolina—J. A.
Arey.
The Boll Weevil in North Carolina—
C. B. Williams.
The North Carolina Press—Gerald
Johnson.
Historical Background of North Ca
rolina-R. D. W. Connor.
Religious Organizations in North Ca
rolina-Dr. Charles E. Maddry.
The Public Debt of North Carolina—
H. G. Connor, Jr.
A GREATER CAROLINA
The late Governor T. W. Bickett
had promised to prepare the first of
the series of articles on Know North
Carolina, one of which is to appear
each week in the newspapers of the
state. His sudden and much lament
ed death has prevented him from
giving our people a new message.
But we can at least catch the inspi
ration of his spirit by turning back
to the closing words of his inaugural
address as Governor of North Caro
lina, January 11, 1917—just five yeai's
ago. Though dead, he yet speaketh
to all North Carolinians in these
stirring phrases that so finely reveal
the spirit of the dead leader.
BICKETT S DEEAM
“Gentlemen of the general assem
bly, ladies and gentlemen: I have
endeavored to visualize my dream of
a fairer and finer state. I have out
lined the means by which I hope to
make the dream come true. And
the means all reach out to a single
end—a larger hope, a'wider door for
the average man than he has ever
known.
«
“With a six-months school guar
anteed to every child; with the forces
of disease routed from their ancient
strongholds; with the curse of rum
lifted from every home; with our
fields tilled by the men who own and
therefore love them; with our har
vests free from the crop lien’s dead
ly blight; with modern conveniences
and wholesome diversions within
reach of every country home, our
dear old state, released from her
bondage to the blood-kin tyrants of
Ignorance, Poverty, Disease, and
Crime, will begin to realize her finest
possibilities in riches and grace; will
assume her rightful place in the
march of civilization; and from the
blue of the mountains to the blue of
the sea there will spring up a har
dier, holier race, not unlike the giants
that walked the earth when the sons
of God mated with the daughters of
men.’’
Libraries and library building have
continued as a local topic, a local con
cern; whereas circumstances were to
give the subject of roads a state-wide
scope. Every community has its local
road problems, enterprises and enthu
siasms, w’hich have received attention
a^ never before, ami in addition as citi
zens of the state North Carolinians
have undertaken a road investment bot
tomed on a bond authorization of fifty
million dollars anh revenues of some
two millions annually—far the greatest
enterprise on which the people have
ever ventured.
2. Library Expansion
But if cultural advancement through
the agency of libraries did not take on
the proportions of state-wide attention,
1^he same object was approached in a
different way. There is the great edu
cational authorization, that will affect
the cultural'side of North Carolina life
more profoundly than anything in pre
vious history; and indirectly will build
and equip libraries everywhere. At the
same time it will spread that disposi
tion to use the stored wealth of the li
braries which is more important to the
state than the possession of libraries
and books. The best of libraries is of
little value to a community where few
realize its value, or feel any impulse to
make its treasures their own.
independence that he has never enjoyed.
We can take the words of his leaders,
like Joyner and Poe, and shout them
from every hill, impress them, precept
upon precept, upon the millions of
minds of the state until farmers, mer
chants, manufacturers, bankers, realize
that in this enterprise there has been
discovered a great stimulus, a great
stabilizer of the basic industry of North
Carolina, in which a great majority of
our workers are directly engaged, and
upon which all of us are more or less
dependent.
The outline of a plan of mutual edu
cation in general knowledge of North
Carolina promises magnificent re.sults.
When these concise expressions from
the men and women who know most
about the multitude of great topics con
nected with North Carolina shall have
been completed every citizen should
have in his possession a booklet con
taining the whole of them. Thousands
of people will clip and preserve them
and thus compile their own booklets as
the articles appear.—Greensboro News.
STATE STUDIES TENANCY
The alarming increase in tenancy
lake Its treasures tneir own. P«sents one of the most serious pro-
» . . blems now confronting the farmers oi
The support ofboth these enterprises, I
the program of educational advance
Improving County Government in
North Carolina—E. C. Brooks.
North Carolina Railways—A. J. Max
well,
The object of all these articles will
be to present with the utmost brevity
and conciseness the most remarkable
and significant facts that every citizen
of North Carolina ought to know about
the subject indicated. The resolution
as passed calls for an article making
about three inches in type, and in no
case must an article exceed 300 words.
In handling each subject we shall ask
each writer simply to give us the hig
brief facts (1) as to the situation, (2)
as to progress made, and (3) as to work
yet to be done, stressing whichever of
these three phases he thinks most needs
attention.
THE STATE PRESS PROGRAM
The North Carolina Press Association
at its 1920 convention decided to sug
gest to the editors of the state at each
annual meeting one or two big subjects
looking to the development of North
Carolina, for especial emphasis during
the succeeding twelve months. The two
subjects that were chosen at that time
are good roads«and library building.
1. Improved Highways
The emphasis placed upon the first
mentioned subject during the year was
so great, the results accomplished by a
combination of forces which included
the newspapers of the state are so im
pressive that many have perhaps lost
sight of the latter subject, although it
was a year of development ^n library
work and the average newspaper did
not fail to improve its opportunities to
forward that work in its own commu
nity.
ment and good road building and main
tenance, negligible on the part of a few
papers, was wholehearted, vigorous,
persistent on the part of the great ma
jority. There has never before been
such splendid evidence of vision, faith
and courage in the press of the state.
3. Know North Carolina
The convention of last month at
Morehead City adopted a resolution re
questing the editors during the next
year to stress and emphasize two sub
jects; first, cooperative marketing of
farm products, and second, a campaign
for helping North Carolinians to Know
North Carolina.
The resolutions further expressed
pleasure at hearing the address of Dr.
J. Y. Joyner, outlining the plans being
presented to the farmers for coopera
tive marketing of cotton and tobacco in
a business-like, scientific, gradual man
ner through expert selling and the edi
tors assured him and his co-laborers that
they stood ready to cooperate with him
in promoting these plans for increasing
the prosperity of our farmers and there
fore of all North Carolina business men.
Suggestion is embodied in the resolu
tions that the foremost authorities of
each great subject in North Carolina
be requested to prepare a three-inch
statement “as to North Carolina’s pro
gress or possibilities with regard to his
particular field—as, for example, water
powers, drainage, library development,
public health, school house building,
roads, etc.,—and that each newspaper
be requested during the coming twelve
months to carry one such inspiring, in
forming three-inch article each week
under the general head Know North
Carolina.
4. Cooperative MarKeting
The editor can help the farmer. The
newspapers have helped the farmers
with suggestion and advice. How can
this be when any intelligent farmer
knows more about his business than all
the editors know? Simply in the way
in which' the papers can aid any class—
by taking the advice of men who do
know more in some field than either ed
itor or average farmer, or average citi
zen, and megaphoning it, magnifying
it, presenting it insistently to the pub
lic attention. Now and then no doubt
we editors urge some foolish and ill-
considered advice upon farmers as upon
other folks; but the people who would
be injured by following it are generally
apt to appraise it as foolish. It is hard
to get any sort of advice over with the
farmer, who is the most conservative
of people. If he is impressed, the ar
gument must be more than plausible.
The Daily News believes that the edi
tors, toiling in the shade, have greatly
helped the farmers, toiling in the sun,.,
since the day when/the corn-club and
kindred ideas were first advanced.
Whether that is true or noi, they can
help the farmer in this matter of coop
erative marketing, wnich is perhaps to
be the farmer’s financial salvation, to
place him in a position of security and ships.
our state and other states. In 1880 only
one American farmer in four was a
tenant, whereas now practically two
out of five are tenants, and the percen
tage is higher in North Carolina than in
the country as a whole. Our public men
as well as our agricultural leaders are
now becoming aroused to the seriousness
of this evil and there is general de
mand for a thorough investigation of
the whole problem with a view to dis
covering precise facts and suggesting
definite remedies.
Therefore, the North Carolina Board
of Agriculture has requested four men
in North Carolina who have given pro
longed study to the question of tenancy
and land ownership in this state and
other states and in foreign countries—
namely, Mr. B. F. Brown, Director of
our Division of Markets and Rural
Organizations; Dr. Carl C. Taylor, of
the Division of Rural Economics, State
College of Agriculture and Engineer
ing; Prof. E. C. Branson, Department
of Rural Social Economics of our State
University; and Dr. E. C. Lindemanof a
similar department in our State College
for women—together with two repre
sentatives of the Board of Agriculture,
to come together and make plans for a
thoroughgoing study and investigation
of the whole subject of farm tenancy
and proposed remedies, proceeding im
mediately with such studies and inves
tigations as they are themselves pre
pared to carry out, and making plans
for the cooperation of all these institu
tions in prosecuting such additional sur
veys and investigations as are deemed
jiecessary.
A UNIVERSITY GIFT
Professor Horace Williams has re
ceived a letter from Mrs. Graham
Kenan enclosing a check for $26,000 for
the establishment of the Graham Kenan
fellowship in philosophy in memory of
her late husband, member of the class
of 1904 in the University.
The details of the application of the
income of the fund are left to Profes
sor -Williams, who is Kenan professor
of Philosophy here. Graham Kenan was
one of his students for two years and
there existed a close friendship between
them.
One thousand dollars of the amount,
according to the directions of the donor,
is to be used the first year, and the re
maining $25,000 is to constitute the per
manent fund.
The annual income, which will be a-
bout’$l,500, does not have to go to only
one student at a time, but may be divid
ed between two or more according to
the nature of the advanced work to be
done by them and the place at which it
must be done. Nor does it have to be
used in accordance with a rigid rule
year after year. Full discretion is given
to Professor Williams and whatever
advisors he may call in to aid.
Graham Kenan was a first cousin of
the late Mrs. Robert Bingham, who be
queathed to the University an income
of $75,000 a year for Kenan professor-