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The news in this publi cation is release4 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. NOVEMBER 15. 1922 CHAPEL HHX, N. VOL. IX, NO. 2 Editorial Buar d I B 0. Branson, S. H. Hobbs, Jr., L. R. Wilson, B. W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bnllitt, H. W. Odum. Entered as second-class matter Novombor 1 i 1914. at the Poatoffice at Chapel Hill, N, O., under the act of August 24, leif. FARM BUILDINGS IN THE U. S. DOWN IN ALBEMARLE A glimpse at the exhibits of the Al bemarle fair furnishes abundant proof that this section has no cause to worry over the fact that the boll weevil has at last crossed the Albemarle sound. Pasquotank, for instance, produces only 2685 bales of cotton as compared with over a million pounds of beef, mutton, and pork. When cattle begin to get as much attention as swine, as they probably will soon after the boll weevil gets here, the figures will be nearly twice as impressive. The pro duction of pork is now nearly five times the beef production of the county. The value of Pasquotank's Irish pota to crop is over a third larger than the value of its cotton crop, and that is figuring cotton at present prices, too. The cotton acreage in Pasquotank is less than a fifth of the acreage in corn, and hog and hominy are really the county’s biggest crop from the stand point of value or acreage. Figured on an acreage basis, the soy bean ranks next to corn. A fraction less than 46 percent of the crop acreage of the county is in corn, 33 percent is in soy beans, and less than 9 percent is in cot ton. A proper development of dairying and beef production in Pasquotank will put the county where it can abandon cotton growing utterly, if necessary, and hardly miss it. It will not be ne cessary, however, as a good farmer can grow cotton at a profit under boll wee vil conditions. If the boll weevil com pels the other sort of farmer to aban don cotton utterly for a few years it may mean his ultimate economic salva tion. —The Advance. SELF-HELP AT CHAPEL HILL An inquiry just completed shows that 5384,000 was earned in a single year by self-help students who worked in order to make their way through the Univer sity of North Carolina. Out of approximately 1,700 students registered in the university, 1,280 did work of one kind or another—some in the summer only, some during both the summer and the college year—to defray the cost of their education. The university has formed an organi zation called the self-help bureau to help the needy ones find all sorts of jobs. The number of young men and young women who earn all or part of what they need here is increasing every year by reason of this system. One novel way of earning money, re cently come into vogue among the stu dents, is taking care of babies when members of the faculty go out in the evening to lectures or other gatherings. This nursing, as it is called, is by no means limited to co-eds. Some of the students most in demand for this duty, because of their demonstrated aptitude for it, are husky males who look like anything but baby-tenders. The work done by self-helpers here varies from secretarial service to the roughest sort of physical labor. Stu dents are seen any day shoveling coal into cellars, digging in gardens, wash ing windows, raking leaves, and split ting wood. They press clothes, install electric wires, wait on tables, scrub floors, operate moving picture machines, cook in restaurants, make candy, and serve as janitors. One of this fall’s football heroes, now a senior, came from the mountains of western North Caroliaa to Chapel Hill with only a few dollars im his pock ets. He entered as a fresbmaa, fouad work, and every year since has earaed enough to meet all expeases.—Greeaa- boro News. A MEMORIAL LIBRART Public spirited citiaeas of Porquiia- ans couaty have b«como|gaaraators for a Lyceum course of six oatortaiamoats which will run through th« fall aad winter. All proceeds from tho oator- tainments above expeases wfl ba do nated to the projeotod Perqulataae County Soldiers Memorial Library. AN IOWA COUNTY HOSPITAL The Board of Supervisora Md the Cherokee County Medical Sooiety, ac cording to a statement in the Herald, a paper published at Stuart, la., have entered into a contract whereby the medical society agrees to attend to all medical and surgical needs of the poor in the county until January, 1923. The county is to pay the medical society the sum of $3,600, which, at the termi nation of the contract, is to be distri buted among the members of the socie ty in proportion to the amount of work done by each. Under this arrange ment a dependent person is to have the privilege of selecting his attending physician from among the membership of the society, which includes practi cally all the doctors in Cherokee Coun ty. This is a somewhat novel contract and it will be interesting to see how the arrangement made will work out. In most counties the governing authori ties enter into a contract with one phy sician, some with a stated compensa tion, some on a fee basis, who serves all indigents receiving medical and surgical care at the expense of the county. The Cherokee county plan will remove the occasion for a com plaint, frequently made by indigents, to the effect that the service rendered by the county doctor is not satisfac tory, because under this plan the de pendent person will choose his own medical attendant.—American Medical Association Bulletin. SMALL-TOWN SHOWS Not upon Broadway, New York, or in Louisville and other cities of its class, are found the worst of public en tertainments, the worst morally. The carnivals which go from one small city or town to another are de scribed by a contributor to The Ahieri- can City as being a far greater evil than public entertainments of the most objectionable class in the large cities. These marauders, as the writer terms them, operate gambling devices controlled electrically in the interest of the operator, and sell children lemonade made of citric acid, red dye, and dirty water, in which thousands of lips touch the slice of lemon that is used over and over again till worn out. In addition to fleecing the general attendance a»d subjecting the children to grossly insanitary conditions, the carnivals maintain organized prostitu tion in connection with Living Pictures, Dancing Mermaids, Oriental Dancing, and The Hawaiian Hoola-Hoola, per formances in themselves often too ob scene to be described in matter passing through the United States mails. The carnival problem is one of pub lic health, and not one of the moral health of communities merely. Ac cording to The American City, these traveling shows have in the smaller American centers of population an ag gregate attendance of more than 18,- 000,000 annually, and until public sen timent has been aroused to the many evils that result from their existence prohibitory legislation will not be en acted by state legislatures. Will prohibitory legislation ever be enactedT Would it be valid, aid if valid, would it be defensible? It is easily within the power of any town or city to regulate public eiter- tainments for the preveatioi of such practices as The America! Jity de scribes. If local public opiiiou ii the smaller cities were sufficieitly opposed to them they could ba kaidled effec tively. Where the smalMowi show is as vile as it is described by Tho Amarican City its vileness refieatn equal vileaess im small-towi politics aid govenraeit. A few small towms have proceeded iiformally, and perhaps illegally, to re quire of strolliig players appearaice before a health officer te determiie whether they should be quarantiied. But that “progressive” measure sug- geste eonnivance at coiiraoreial vice as ome ef the enterprises m which earai- vtl maiagers engage. The carnivals aid kindred shows should be regulated by M0li6ipalitie^ lot prohibited by states through laws which, inevitably, would prohibit harmless perfwitaiices aloig with KNOW NORTH CAROLINA Going Some In Chairman Frank Page’s little chat Monday night to 30,000 people over the radiophone, he told them that the state’s road building results daily in two miles of hard surface and three of other construc tion, and that the building from first to last requires 16,000 men. From the expenditures it can be seen, too, that this construction re quires about $100,000 every work day, figures which we have veri fied. The state is therefore spend ing about $25,000,000 a year on roads and is completing each day 6 miles, or more than 1,200 every year at the present rate. No wonder that people are no longer unintelligent enough to attack the road construction program. There are 160,000 automobiles in the state not counting the 18,000 trucks. These all belong to North Carolina, but it is safe to assume that 60,000 automobiles from other states every year use North Carolina roads. And what these tourists can do by way of saying a good word for North Carolina, everybody can see. From California to Maine and from Minne sota to Alabama, the chorus of praise for North Carolina is with out discord. Many a business has collapsed on the verge of a magnificent success just because it lacked a little ready capital. North Carolina came dan gerously near doing the same thing when a little adversity struck it two years ago. The $76,000,000 put in to schools and roads will come back with a billion of compound interest. Five miles of finished road and $100,000 paid to 16,000 men daily— that is certainly going some.— Greensboro News. harmful ones.—Louisville Courier- Journal. for this are: good health conditions, the ever ready supply of good whole some food such as fresh vegetables, milk, chickens and eggs (gee, I believe I’ll move to the farm), the balanced physical and mental growth that comes from living close to nature and seeing the beauties of Hia handiwork, the close business partnership between husband and wife, and the friendly discussion of all business problems. Modern home conveniences such as running water, electric light and'pow er for washing; consolidated rural schools, papers and magazines, home demonstration work, automobiles and good roads, all of these and more go hand in hand towards making life on the farm worth living. With a hope for the future and with a vision of what rural life can become rather than what it is today, these farm women expressed a belief that the time would soon come when the country women would have all the ad vantages now possible to the city wom en and in addition to these the many comforts and pleasures that come only to those livingmthe country as farmers’ wives.—The Roanok-Chowan Times. PRISON REFORM A murderer in this country has three chances to one in his favor against be ing brought to trial, ten to one against life imprisonment, and eighty to one against suffering the death penalty. The natural sequence is that more peace-time murders are committed in the United States than in any other five civilized nations. America’s steadily increasing volume of capital crime calls for an earnest consideration of practical remedial measures. Among the chief crime breeding in fluences are an unwise immigration policy which has made us a dumping ground in the past for the criminally inclined and mentally deficient, influ ences suggestive of crime such as the lurid motion picture, the sporting in stinct carried to the extreme, perver sion of justice in the courts, and farcical atlenjpis at prison reform and crimi nal reft^rms that tend to pamper the criminal. Students and thoughtful people ir, general who are interested in this sub ject ought to read Mastin’s Stop Thief, published by the Gorham Press, Bos- toi.—Municipal Review. PHILLIPS BROOKS’S DREAM Let me live the years of my stay upon earth ’way out in the country, close to nature and nature’s God. I want to feel the touch of the seasons as they come and go, making up the years. I want to feel the chill of win der in my frame, not too severe, but Enough to make the blood tingle. I want to feel the gentle warmth of spring as, with her gentle touch of magic, she awakens new life in things dead. I want to feel the heat of sum mer, as the golden sunshine ripens the harvest and matures fruit and flowers. Lastly I want to catch the cold breath of autumn coming to fan away the heat and lethargy of summer. I want to hear the cry of whippoorwills as the twilight settles o’er the hill and hollow. I want to be near when Bob White is calling to his mate, when the fields of ripening wheat wave gently to the passing breeze, I want to hear the tinkle of bells on the distant hillside, as the sun is going down and the katy dids commence their night-long chat ter. Then old Jack Frost passes by, with his touch of white. I want to wander down the old rail fence and on to where the muscadines hang in rich profusion; and there for a time fast and forget. Yes, let me live out the years of my stay upon the earth in the fullness of the country, and then, dying, let me rest in the quiet churchyard near where father and mother sleep— where the sunbeams play in the sum mer, and the snow drifts high in the winter.—Phillips Brooks. THE AMERICAN S CREED In 1918 William Tyler Page, a de scendant of Carter Braxton, one of the signers of the Declaration'of Indepen dence, was awarded a prize of one thousand dollars for a short article en titled The American’s Creed. It is full of the same sentiment that prompted the Declaration of Independence and is muoh of the Declaration written in short form. It follows: I believe in the United States of America as a government of the peo ple, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democ racy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States, a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equal ity, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is} my duty to ray country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws: to re spect its flag; and defend it against all enemies. This creed has been learned by more than two million school children, and it is well worth any one's time to read it and see how much can be said in one hundred words. According to Current Opinion, this piece of literature bids fair to become a classic. DICKENS ON THE BOOK The Eternal Book for all the weary and heavy-laden; for all the wretched, fallen, and neglected of this earth—the blessed history, in which the blind, lame, palsied beggar, the criminal, the woman stained with shame, the shunned of all our dainty clay, has each a portion, that no human pride, indiffer ence, or sophistry, through all the ages that this world shall last, can take a- way, or by the thousandth atom of a grain reduce—the ministry of Him who, through the round of human life, and all its hopes and griefs, from birth to death, from infancy to age, had sweet compission for and interest in its every scene and stage, its every suffering and sorrow. —Domtoy and Son, Chap. 68. THE VALUE OF FARM BUILDINGS Per Farm in the United States in 1920 Based on 1920 Census of Agriculture covering (1) the total value of all farm buildings in each state, (2) divided by the number of farms. The average for the United States was $1,781; for North Carolina it W£S $311, and only five states were below us. Our small values and low rank in farm buildings are due to (1) the small average size of our farms, (2) the large ratio of tenants, whose homes are usually inadequate, (3) small investment in barns and storage houses, because we are crop farmers, deficient in livestock, grain, hay, and forage, (4) few home comforts and conveniences as on western farms, and (6) an undeveloped appreciation in the South of attractive, comfortable farm homos. Tables to follow: (1) Cultivated Acres per Farm in the United States, (2) Value of Buildings, Livestock, and Cultivated Acres per Farm in North Caro lina counties. S. H. Hobbs, Jr. t Department of Rural Social Economics, University of North Carolina MARRYING A FARMER Do you want your daughter to marry a farmer? Sixty-one out of sixty-four North Carolina farm women answer yes, and they back up their answers with some perfectly good reasons. They do not think of themselves as poor hard working drudges, lonely and iso lated and with no social life to break the raonbtony of their existence. On the contrary they seem to be perfectly well satisfied and are contented with their lots as farmers’ wives. They find joy, happiness, and contentment on the farm and in the homes and have such hope in the future that they want their daughters to become farmers’ wives. Some of the most important reaeom Rank States Buildings Rank States Buildings Per Farm Per Farm 1 Iowa $4,325 26 Washington $1,862 2 Connecticut .... 3,932 26 Missouri 1,782 3 Massachussetts.... .... 8,748 27 Oregon ... . 1,772 4 New Jersey .... 3,641 28 Colorado 1,708 6 New York 8,270 29 Idaho ....... 1,664 6 South Dakota .... 8,235 30 Ariiona 1,680 7 Illinois 8,162 81 Wyoming 1,611 8 ' Minnesota. .... 8,087 82 Montana 1,471 9 Nebraska .... 8,069 88 Virginia 1,439 10 Wisconsin .... 8,006 84 Utah 1,276 li Pennsylvania .... 2,970 85 West Tirginia 1,185 12 Rhode Island .... 2,909 86 Tex»« 1,043 15 North Dakota .... 2,706 87 Oklahema 1,002 14 Maryland .... 2,644 88 982 15 Vermont 2,620 89 Kentueky 903 J5 Ohio .... 2,518 49 Sacth Carolina.... 865 17 California .... 2,471 41 TMnesaee ...... 869 18 Michigan 2,481 42 New Mexico .... 864 19 Delaware 2,288 43 Nerth ChroUna Sll 20 Indiana. 2,1W 44 Georgia 776 21 Nevada 2,18© 45 lieuieiana 667 M Kansas 2,144 41 Arkansas 626 28 New Hampshire... .... 2,074 47 Mississippi ..... 646 U Maine .... 1,8» 48 Ahibaxii ...... 499
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