The news in this publi cation is released for the press on receipt. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA NEWS LETTER Published Weekly by the University of North Caro lina for its University Ex tension Division. JULY 5. 1922 CHAPEL HILL, N. C. VOL. Vm, NO. 33 Editorial Board i B. C. Branson, S. H. Hobbs, Jr., L. B. Wilson, E. W. Knixht. D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bnllltt, H. W. Odum. Entered aa second-class matter November 14.1914, at the PostofHce at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912. CAROLINA COLLEGE STUDENTS CAHOLINA’S RANK IS LOW Seven thousand seven hundred twenty North Carolina students of college grade were in the colleges, universities, and professional schools of the United States in 1920-21, and this total does not include the students in teacher training schools and in separate or in dependent theological schools. Eight een hundred forty-five of these Caro lina students were attending institutions in other states. These arte the figures of George F. Zook, specialist in Higher Education in the Federal Bureau of Education, who has been checking the names of college students by states in the college cata logues of the country. For every 3-32 inhabitants in North Carolina there was one Carolina student in college in 1920-21, in the home state or in some other state. Thirty-six states made a better showing. See the table elsewhere. In 1896-7 it took 987 inhabitants in North Carolina to furnish one college student. In proportion to population. North Carolina students of college grade have nearly exactly trebled in number during the last quarter century. While the population of the state was being multiplied by two, her students of college grade were being multiplied by three. Which means that the state is gaining in college culture—not sud denly, but slowly and surely. How Other States Rank The state that makes the best show ing is Oregon, where there is one col lege student for every 112 inhabitants, against 332 in North Carolina. If North Carolina believed in college culture as Oregon does, we should have twenty-three thousand students in col lege instead of less than eight thousand. If wte believed in college culture as Kansas and Nebraska do, we should have sixteen thousand students in schools of college grade. The state that makes the poorest showing is Tennessee, where it takes 604 inhabitants to furnish one student of college grade. Fourth in the South Naturally the South lags behind, be cause of the large ratios of negroes in the various states. There are large numbers of negroes in Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia, nevertheless these three southern states make a hot ter showing than North Carolina. How we rank in the South appears in the following table showing the num ber of inhabitants per college student in 1920-21. 1 Oklahoma 264 2 South Carolina 270 3 Virginia 4 North Carolina 332 5 Mississippi 346 6 Texas - 7 Florida 8 Louisiana 9 Alabama 10 Georgia 11 Kentucky ^^8 12 Arkansas 13 Tennessee Fourth in the South and thirty-sev enth in the Union is North Carolina’s rank in college culture. We have done well of late years, but we must do still better in the years ahead. The California Way A recent summer in California brought us to a keen realization of the distance North Carolina must go in order to catch up with a state that is near the top in college culture. For instance, we found 14,000 stu dents of college grade in the Univer sity of California, or 3,000 students more in the State University alone than we had in the thirty-one state and de nominational colleges of North Carolina all put together. The white population of California is almost exactly twice that of North Carolina,, but the stu dents in the University of California are more than four times the combined enrollment of the University of North Carolina, the State College of Agricul ture;. and 1 engineering, and the State College for Women. Upon looking about for, an explana tion we found that eighty percent of the elementary school graduates of California go on into the high schools, and that ninety percent of the high- school graduates go on into the colleges and universities of the state; that a tax rate of three dollars a hundred for pub lic schools alone was common the whole state over; that million-dollar high- school buildings were commonplace; that a local polytechnic high-school plant here and there represented a larger investment on part of some small city than the whole state of North Ca rolina has yet been wUling to invest in her University. California believes in college culture free for all, and is willing to pay for it. She spent for this purpose in univer sity appropriations for current expenses in 1920-21 ninety-three cents per white inhabitant. The same year North Caro lina spent 'thirty-two cents per white inhabitant to support her three state institutions of liberal learning and tech nical training. The Carolina Way As the common schools and high schools increase in number and efficiency in California, the demand for college culture increases. And so it is in North Carolina. The church colleges and state colleges of No^th Carolina will need to double their capacity and quad ruple their equipments and facilities within the next five years, so rapid is the recent progress of our public ele mentary and secondary schools. There is no escape from the dilemma, except to dismantle the common schools and high schools of the state, and thus to blow out the light in the brains of the youth of North Carolina. Who is willing to do it? No lover of his fellow man,'it is safe to say. Having put her hand to the plow, North Carolina will not look back. She is slow to start, but almighty hard to stop-that’s her reputation at home and abroad. The people of North Ca rolina mean to build a great common wealth on improved public education, improved public health, and improved public highways. They know at last that a great state cannot be founded on mud, disease, and ignorance, and they are so clearly convinced of it that they run over tight-fisted taxpayers and loose-jointed demagogues with little ceremony these days. That statesman will live longest in the history of North Carolina who dares to go furthest for public education, public health, and public highways. The pages of history are strewn thick with the wreck of parties, but history has yet to record a party wrecked by appropriations for education, health, and highways. GOVERNOR MORRISON DARES Ninety-seven cents of every dollar paid into the treasury of North Caro lina goes to some great governmental purpose, says Governor Morrison, and only three cents of it goes to the cost of administrati,on. No private business in the world is run upon such a small overhead cost, and no other state gov ernment in the Union is conducted at such a small overhead or administra tion expense. We must realize that taxation in the town, county, and state largely goes to the education of our children, the pro tection of our health, the building of our roads, the improvement of agricul ture and other business, and the doing of things without which we cannot be a strong and successful people, and that what we cannot do for ourselves indi vidually must be done by collective action through the state and its sub-di visions. The curse of North Carolina through the ages has been unwillingness to spend money in necessary development of the natural resources of the state, and in training and making efficient' the great mass’ of the people. For many decades we were hewers of wood and drawers of water for the better trained and more efficient sections of our own country and of the world. What We Pay Taxes For The true way to reduce taxation is to educate the youth of the state, not only culturally but technically, pd to make them more efficient in industry and varied in capacity to create wealth, m (■Released week beginning July 3) KNOW NORTH CAROLINA Our Greatest Fault When one hears what other "Sec tions are facing, we North Carolin ians should be well satisfied. In or der that we may not be too compla cent I suggest, however,' that we discuss what is perhaps our greatest fault—namely, the wasteful habit of allowing our property to deteriorate for want of cleaning and care. Our livestock feed too many lice for want of cleaning and care. Our Fords and other automobiles last but a season or two for want of cleaning and care. Our fields that we have cleared and fertilized are allowed to wash. Our buildings get dirty, are al lowed to decay, and the painting is neglected. Let me paint you a picture. In a growing city the largest hotel is thirty years old. Its replacement value is $200,000. It needs painting inside and out, the steps and porch are out of plumb, the carpets are worn, the furniture needs repair and varnishing, and the only cleaning that it has received since this hotel was built is an occasional “wiping over”, sometimes a dry wiping, sometimes a wet one, but there is no favoritism shown. A dirty spot receives no more attention than a clean one. , Then comes the demand for a mod ern hotel. The $200,000 investment is scrapped and a $300,000 building of about the same size is substituted. The cost is therefore $500,000, not $^00,000, but until it has time to get dirty and show wear, everyone is happy in spite of the fact that the hotels are still overcrowded. What was needed were new rugs, more bathrooms, som6 paint, varnish, plaster, and lumber, but above all, about twelve well-supervised scrub brushes and another hotel. In another town the cry is for a court-house or a bank, with the same resulting waste, due largely to laek- of scrub-brushes and paint. The most popular hotel in Maine is one hundred and fifty years old, has its original furniture and the people are justly proud of it. In North Carolina there is a lack of love, care, and respect for the old, and, remember, every year adds beauty to a building, a beauty that cannot be duplicated by the greatest artist. In this state we have built roads and condemned them because they wore out from lack of care, and have been sold a more expensive construction instead of maintaining what we had. The old Roman roads are still excellent but they would not have lasted ten years without repair. We are a wonderfully, successful people, but aren’t we a bit credulous —easily convinced that a new thing will be more perfect, more perma nent, or more beautiful than the old? —Leonard Tufts, Pinehurst, N. C. order that there will be more wealth created to bear the burden; to take care of our defective and unfortunate in order that there may be fewer de fectives and unfortunates to take care of; to guard through governmental agencies the health of the people of the state; to enforce the law and in every proper way discountenance vice and prevent crime. We must have a mo^dern and up-to-date government, one which not only does the old-fashioned, primary things that governments did, but which realizes that the benefi cence of government is as truly ex pressed through the school-house as the courthouse, and which has intelligence enough to regard the Sanitary and Health Officer and the Farm Demon strator as of equal dignity and impor tance with the sheriff and policeman. A modern government organized to do something for the people more than to prevent them from robbing and killing one another will require a greater in vestment than the old government per forming only the duties of the judge, the sheriff^and the coroner, and an in telligent citizen understands that the taxes paid for such a government are the best investment he makes, and will return a greater yield, if not for him self certainly for his childfen, than any he can make individually for them. Morrison’s Program The program now being worked out by the state looks to the care of the unfortunate and defective; the protec tion of the health of the people and the })revention, as far as possible, of de fectives in the rising generation; the education of all the children of the state and a practical efficiency for them which those who have gone before had no opportunity to acquire; the building of a great system of hard surfaced de pendable state highways; experiments in scientific agriculture and its exten sion; the enforcement of the law and the protection of all business from riot and disorder. For the carrying out of this program no burden will be placed upon anybody who is'not able to bear it. The revenue is raised through a system of taxation that requires men to .^pay according to their ability. Some effort to stir up opposition to the program is manifested: We must be ready for the fight. As far as I am concerned, if it must come, I promise unflinching determination in front of it. The forces of enlighten ment and progress must not falter. We must go on. This state must be developed. ^ The oncoming youth of the state must be trained and made effi cient to avoid the poverty and suffering which we have had to undergo. Victory for the constructive and progressive forces of the state does not mean op pression and burden, it means prosper ity, strength, and happiness.—Cameron Morrison, Governor of North Carolina. do a certain task, and makes you a Human Being, alive, vibrant, radia ting. It makes you Somebody/ not just Anybody. Many a mother has realized too late that she has no hold upon her children because of her lack of knowledge. They have grown up and gotten away from her. Many a man has risen in the busi ness world only to be humiliated be cause he has neglected to acquire that education which alone would qualify him to mingle on terms of equality wilh well-informed people. In fact, every man or woman who has neglected an education, bitterly re grets it sooner or later. And no living person was ever sorry that he had secured an education. There never was an age in the his tory of the world when it was so true as it is ncftv that Knowledge is power. And Knowledge is open to Every body. Its gates are unlocked, its door is unlatched, its road is as free as the king’s highway. The only things that prevent any person from acquiring useful know ledge are laziness, self-indulgence, weakness, and procrastination. Even if you did not get the chance to go to school, or if you failed to im prove your opportunity when young, you can still set out upon the royal road to Education if you have the will. And even in the case of those who are college graduates, the best part of their education is gotten from their studies in the ten years after leaving school. There is no single thing so essential to Success, in whatever calling, as Education.—Dr. Frank Crane. CRANE AND CULTURE Culture means intellectual back ground. It means accumulated force behind your stroke. It means that you are not only capa ble yourself, but that you know how to absorb and use the capability of wiser persons. It gives you perspective. It increases your personality. It strengthens your influence. It keep? you from settling down to become a mere cog in the wheel, a little specialized piece of machinery to NEBRASKA TAX DODGERS To force tax dodgers out into the open, the Nebraska State Farm Bureau Federation has made arrangements for representatives in eqch county in the state to make a copy of the personal tax returns made by every taxpayer and to post these lists in conspicuous places in each district. This plan is approved by the state tax commis sioner.—Durham Herald. A BANK SHOWS THE WAY The First National Bank of Tarboro) N. C., has placed on the farms of its county during the last three years 93 head of purebred Jersey cows at a cost of $10,000; 25 head of purebred Hamp-. shire pigs at a cost of $2,500; 125 head of high-grade sheep at a cost of $2,200; has sold at wholesale to farmers $5,000 worth of various seed, and distributes monthly 1,000 copies of farmers’ maga zines. COLLEGE ATTENDANCE IN 1920-21 Based on investigations of George F. Zook, Federal Bureau of Education, Jan. 11, 1922. Covering (1) students in universities, colleges, and professional schools in the home state and in all other states, and (2) not including students in Teacher Training Schools and independent Theological Schools. N. C. students in college in all states, 7,720, or one student for every 332 inhabitants in North Carolina; state rank 37th. Of this total, 5,875 were attend ing N. C. colleges, and 1,845 were in colleges in other states. College students in N. C. numbered 6,902, which number includes 1,027 from other states and countries. In this inter-state exchange, North Carolina fell behind 818 students. Department Rural Social Economics, University of North Carolina. Rank State College - Popula- Rank State College Popula- students tion per students tion per therefrom student therefrom student 1 Oregon .. 7,020 112 24 Wisconsin.... ..10,603 249 2 Iowa ..18,867 128 ■ 26 Pennsylvania ...34,491 253 3 Utah .. 3,283 137 27 North Dakota ... 2,523 266 4 Kansas ..11,786 151 28 Maine ... 2,966 259 4 Nebraska .. 8,607 151 29 Oklahoma .... ... 7,709 264 6 Washington .. 8,780 155 30 South Carolina .... 6,250 270 7 Nevada .. 465 167 31 Rhode Island. ... 2,173 279 8 California ..20,481 168 32 Arizona ... 1,174’ 284 9 Colorado .. 6,302 178 33 New Jersey .. ...10,744 294 10 Idaho .. 2,383 182 34 Virgisia ... 7,296 317 11 Minnesota ..12,983 184 35 D*^lflw»rp 12 Montana .. 2,972 185 36 West Virginia ... 4,490 326, 13 Indiana ..15,548 189 37 North Carolina. .., 7,720 332 13 South Dakota .. .. 3,379 189 38 Mississippi.... ... 5,078 346 15 Ohio ..29,617 196 39 Texas ...12,800 865'" 16 Vermont.. .. 1,724 205 40 Florida ... 2,688 374 17 New York ...49,282 211 41 Maryland .... ... 3,402 427 18 Wyoming .. 906 215 42 Louisiana ... 4,156 433 19 Illinois ..28,887 225 43 Alabama ... 6,299 443 20 New Hampshire .. 1,865 238 44 Georgia ... 6,078 477 21 Massachusetts.. ..16,072 240 45 Kentucky .... ... 4,857 498 22 Missouri ..13,996 244 46 New Mexico.. ... 709 ' 609 23 Connecticut. ... .. 5,668 248 47 Arkansas ... 3,094 666 24 Michigan ..14,757 249 48 Tennessee...,. 3,874 604

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