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VOLUME XXXIX
CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931
NUMBER C3
1 -
CAROLINA M
J)S
FEWER FARI
SAYS
Larger Farms Also Needed Says
Rural Economics Professor
Before N. C. Club.
Professor S. H. Hobbs, Jr., of
the University department of
rural social economics, spoke be
fore the North Carolina Cmb in
its meeting last night in the
library room of the department,
on the subject "North Carolina
as an Agricultural State."
"North Carolina is recognized
as an important industrial
state," said Professor Hobbs,
"yet she remains one of the
most rural and agricultural of all
the states." According to the
1930 census North Carolina has
279,723 farms and only two
other states have more than
this. More than half of the
state's population live on farms,
while the rural ratio-farm and
small towns under 2,500 is ,74.5
per cent, and only five states
have larger ratios.
Dr. Hobbs was of the opinion
that there is enormous room for
agricultural expansion in North
Carolina for although North
Carolina ranks twenty-eighth xin
size and third in farms, only one
fifth of the state is actually de
voted to crop production. North
Carolina is a state of small
farms with the cultivated acres
per farm averaging twenty
the smallest in the United States
and they are getting smaller.
Professor Hobbs further stat
ed that nearly one third of our
farms are operated by negro
farmers, North Carolina having
the largest increase in the num
ber of negro farmers of any
state in the Union since 1915.
"North Carolina is primarily
a non-food cash crop state," con
tinued Professor Hobbs. "Crops
are relatively more important in
our system of agriculture than
in any other state. Before the
Civil War, North Carolina was
self -feeding. Since the Civil
War the state has imported
much of her food and has con
centrated on cash crops, mainly
cotton and tobacco. We usually
rank around sixth or seventh in
the production of " crops and
about eighteenth in production
of livestock. Since the North
Carolina farms are small, the
production per farm is small ;
hand methods instead of ma
chinery are used." .
In discussing North Carolina
a3 a livestock state, Dr. Hobbs
stated that she ranks at or near
the bottom. Although the state
it well suited to livestock farm -
mg, the chance of making ready
cash from cotton and tobacco
farming have put , livestock
farming in a low position.
The speaker gave as the rea
sons for small farms in North
Carolina," the low farm income
and the small wealth per farm
these things: farm, tenancy,
cash crop farming, large ratio
of negro farmers, hand meth
ods of farming, enormous ex
penditures for fertilizer and the
low level of intelligence for a
krge per cent of our farm popu
lation. '
Concluding, he stated the
need of North Carolina in an
agricultural way thus: "We
need larger farms and probably
fewer farmers, more livestock
and live-at-home farming gen
erally, better marketing meth
ods, more cooperation between
town and country people, and
above all a larger ratio of home
tiEilS
I0BBS
THREE -BILLS ON
CT7TVT A rpi7 f AT T?7VTTk A T3
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The following bills are on the j
calendar of the" Dialectic Senate
to -h discussed at the meeting
tonight at 7 o'clock.
1. Resolved: That, the Di
Senate go on record as favoring
the public ownership of all basic
industries, such as public utili
ties, iron and steel manufactur
ing, coal mining, textile and to
bacco manufacturing.
2. Resolved : That, the Di
Senate go on record as favoring
the sending of a unit of the Na
tional guard to protect the
strikers1 job3 at the Danville
mills.
3. Resolved: the student, body
has too little part in the manage
ment of student affairs and in
the control of - extra-curricula
activities.
OLD ffiTCH-fflKER "
GIVES VIEWS ON
THISGMRATION
Seventy-Nine Year Old Patri
arch Believes This a Most
Irreligious Age.
(By C.C.E.)
I wras interested to see Sun
day afternoon a very quaint
character in the line of students
who were, as per usual, bum
ming their way to Durham. He
was dressed in the uniform that
was used in that vnever to bei
forgotten war that was fought
by our grandfathers sixty-f ive
years or more ago. He wore
spectacles, and a long white
beard flowing in the wind gave
him a patriarchal appearance.
I approached out of curiosity,
and asked in. the conventional
way how bumming was. I found
him to be a very fluent conversa
tionalist, and highly interesting.
His home, he said, was in Dur
ham, and he was waiting for
someone that he knew to come
along and give him a ride.
Turning around, he ran his
finger along the name of Jef
ferson Davis that marks the
highway and remarked that he
had a piece of money that Jeff
Davis made. I expressed a curios
ity to see it, and he very oblig-J
ingly showed it to me, not only
a two dollar bill of old Confed
erate money which was good
only in North Carolina, but also
a ten-cent bill. Both of which
he was very proud of. He said
that he was close enough to hear
the guns fire, but was too young
for active fighting, being in the
junior camp "when they holler
ed quit." He didn't receive any
Dension. but thought he should
ihave.
tv this time he had a pretty
large audience, so when I asked
him for his opinion of the
younger generation, he was
ready and anxious to expound
on the subject, using the Bible
as a guide. Giving exact chap
ters and verse, he substantiated
each of his statements." They
are more wicked ; more dissipat
ed than they were in the days of
Sodom and Gomarrh." Religion,
he said was woefully lacking in
his home town. "Why," he said,
"If you could rake together all
the religion in Durham, you
could put it in the bill of a hum
ming bird; and if the humming
bird were to blow it into the eye
of a flea, the flea wouldn't even
hop." Cuffs on pants, he said
were useless, and were an ex
pense while the dres3 of the
modern flapper wras shameless
and ha 'caused to be established
a silk stocking, bobbed hair reli -
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P
H1
TEN MILLION FOR
WlftTTfiRT RI7T.H7TJ
Chapel Hill Chapter Has
Quota to Contribute to
National Fend. .
Contributions to the Red
Cross relief fund by the Chapel
Hill chapter now toal over
$150. The quota for this chap
ter is $600. J. Hyde Pratt,
chairman of the chapter, stated
that they hoped to get everybody
to contribute something if the
amount is small. It is his
opinion that if the people could
realize the extent of the drought
disaster they would be willing
to contribute. Contributions
may be left at the "M" System
j store, Eubanks Drug store, the
Bank, with Mr. Hill at the con
solidated service plant, and with
Mr. Hyde Pratt.
John Barton Payne, national
chairman of the American Red
Cross, has described the drought
disaster as the greatest peace
time emergency with which the
Red Cross has haci to cope. The
drought has reduced the finest
American families to want.
Drought, being beyond human
j prevention, caught good farmers
as well as poor farmers. Streams
went dry, stock died, fields dried
up and at last families entered
upon the long, slow process of
starvation. -
Great organizations which are
supporting the Red Cross in the
relief work' are: the Federal
Council of Churches, the Knights
of Columbus, the National Cath
olic Women of America, the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Coun
cil, the Jewish Welfare Bodies,
D. A. R., and the American
Legion Women's Auxiliary. The
radio broadcasting systems are
forwarding the campaign
through their programs: Na
tional broadcasting systems,
Columbia broadcasting system,
and the United broadcastingsys
tem. '
Lending aid, also, are the Na
tional Council of Social . Work,
the Association of Community
Chests and Councils, the General
Federation of Women's Clubs,
and the American Federation of
Labor. The Veterans of Foreign
Wars, also through their com
mander , in chief , Paul C. Wol
man, pledged aid to the relief
campaign.
At present contributions to
the national relief fund of $10,
000,000 total 2,135,000 and re
lief work has go on in
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Mcintosh Gives Views
On Proposed Cuts
In an interview with a Daily
Tar Heel reporter, C. E. Mc
intosh, of-the school of educa
tion, stated his' solution to the
; foremost problem confronting
employees of the state.
. "The Governor says , a 10
cut in the salaries of state and
county employees will save ap
proximately 4,000,000. If these
figures are correct, the present
salaries of these employees; will
aggregate about 40,000,000.
"The Reynolds Tobacco Co.
says it cleared last year more
than 34,000,000. How would
it do to ask the Reynolds Com
pany to forego dividends for a
period of "one year, and donate
this sum to pay the employees
of the state on the basis of their
present salaries?
"The taxes of the state could
thus be lowered, and a year
; hence business would again be
on a boom."
NEW BOOK CLUB
FOR ALULM HAS
: GROWN RAPIDLY
Number of Subscribers
Doubled in the Last
Two Weeks.
Has
The alumni book club, initiat
ed in October by University fac
ulty, alumni office, University
library and the extension li
brary service, reports that with
in the last two weeks its sub
scribers have more tl an doubled.
This would indicate that the
club has merged from an experi
mental state to take its place
among the few satisfactory
methods of book circulation for
post-diploma education.
In the two months of its .ex
istence many leading education
al authorities have been attract
ed by its unique methods. Sev
eral publications have contained
articles praising the growth this
club has made. The conductors
of the alumni book club have re
ceived letters from almost all of
their subscribers, in which the
books and the'manner in which"
the books were circulated were
highly praised.
The public library of Wash
ington, D. C, has written J.
Maryon Saunders, one of the
originators and conductors of;
the club, offering to cooperate j
with the club and lend books to
the alumni in Washington. This
library has made it a policy to
aid in every possible way to
carry on education among the
older groups after they have
left college.
The club makes available
what, its conductors think the'
best and most recent literature,
philosophy, economics, sociology,
history and the sciences. Every
month it circulates a list, of
books for that month among
University alumni, their fami
lies and friends.
Each book is mailed out to
the borrower, and along with it
a commentary by some member
of the University faculty. The
commentary is not a book re
view. It is written by one es
pecially interested in the sub
ject, and is designed to evalu
ate the book to tne reader and
to furnish information about
the author.
The list of subscribers ex
tends from Florida to New Jer-
-vi 11 il i iv
sey. -brom an tnese places tne
members, of the club send let
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Shreve Discusses
' Student Activities
Clyde E. Shreve, University
varsity debater, spoke over
WBIG, Greensboro broadcasting
station, Friday night, January
23, from seven-thirty to seven-forty-five.
His speech took the
form of student activities and
organizations. Student organ
izations were divided into four
main groups: publications, ath
letics, debating and social activi
ties. . .
Pointing out the value of ex
tra curricular activities, the
speaker was of the opinion that
participation in the various
branches of campus life is in
dispensable towards becoming a
well-rounded graduate. In stat
ing this, Shreve called attention
to some of the prominent men
of the state and nation wEo were
student leaders during their col
lege life. The varsity debater
concluded his address by giving
an outline of the mechanical
features of debating, athletics,
publications, dramatics, and so
cial functions. . ' -
PHI INVESTIGATING f TJT AITTI
N. C. BUS SERVICE r1111
The following bills will be dis- HAS Ali
The following bilb will be dis
cussed by the Phi Assembly to
night:' V-'-
1. Resolved: That the Phi As
sembly is of the opinion that
public highway bus service in
North Carolina and commercial
freight hauling by motor
vehicles in the state should be
thoroughly and impartially in
vestigated, all the facts found to
be submitted to each member of
the 1933 General Assembly at
least sixty days before that
body convenes. ,
2. Resolved: That the Phi
Assembly go on record as favor
ing a full, impartial investiga
tion and study by some legally
authorized body of the produc
tion, distribution and costs of
electrical power in North Caro
lina. COLLEGES URGED
TO MAKE APPEAL
TO LEGISLATORS
State Student Federation ' Try
ing to Make Legislature Give
Institutions Proper Aid.
In view of the fact that the
appropriation committee of the
legislature is this week consider
ing appropriations for state in
stitutions the North Carolina
Student Federation has' deter
mined upon a definite policy of
cooperation with the administra
tions of the state supported in
stitutions in an effort to induce
the legislature to be more liberal
in their appropriations to the
state institutions.
John Lang, president of the
North Carolina Student Federa
tion, has sent letters to the stu
dent president of every state
supported institution in North
Carolina calling upon them to
use their efforts in arousing a
student movement to induce the
legislature to continue a pro
gressive program of education in
the state.
An open forum letter, stating
the present financial distress of
state institutions and calling
upon students to cooperate with
their respective college admini
strations in an effort to get re
lief from the present situation
has been mailed by Lang to the
student publications -of every
state institution. In this letter a
request was made of those stu
dents who had friends in the
legislature to write or visit them
and inform them of the finan
cial needs of our public institu
tions. A letter has been dispatched
from the executive staff of the
North Carolina Student Federa
tion to the chairman- of the
legislature appropriation com
mittee asking his committee's
cooperation in helping the state
institutions obtain the proper
financial assistance with which
to continue their normal growth
and progress. r
Extension Division
Offers New Course
The first class in beginner's
French, conducted by the Ex
tension Division, meets in Room
314 Murphey, at 4:30 o'clock to
morrow afternoon. This class is
for town people and those of the
University who desire a read
ing knowledge of French. No
examination nor credit is given
for work in, this course.
The class will meet once a
week for eighteen weeks, at a
time to be decided upon by the
class.
TANFGIt!
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Kentucky University and Dart
mouth Also Believe in
Optional Attc:
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Stanford University, the Uni
versity of Kentucky, as well as
Dartmouth College have been
added to the rapidly growing
.list of institutions of higher
learning in the United States
which offer voluntary attend
ance to student members.
In a long letter Dean P. P.
Boyd, dean of the college of
liberal arts and sciences at the
University of Kentucky, informs
the special student committee
j here commissioned by the Cen
tral Administrative Council to
conduct a nation-wide survey on
the subject that "Juniors and
seniors. who have made a high
standing the previous semester,
are exempt from penalties for
absences. Good students in the
upper division are eligible for
Independent Work courses, in
which students report to the in
structor once a week. Seniors
in their last semester are exempt
from examinations if their
standings are high.
JTn the Independent Work
there is no doubt that the ar
rangement is good. As to the
amount of initiative permitted to
students in class work and in
connection with university con
trol, I may say that we are try
ing to promote greater freedom
and initiative among juniors and
seniors both in type of course
and in methods of instruction."
Karl M. Cowdery, registrar at
Leland Stanford University, has
written that, "Optional attend
ance has been more or lessin ef- -feet
through the history of
Stanford University. The Ad
ministration has had the policy
that, if a student is able to carry
the work and complete satisfac
torily the necessary preparation
for final examination and for
required-papers, they are not
concerned with whether or not
the student has attended class.'
Stanford University goes far
ther in student independence
than any other institution which
has replied to the optional at
tendance letters. Cowdery says,
"As indicated iirbur information
Bulletin, a copy of which is be
ing sent you separately, we have
a plan of independent study
available to superior students
who wish to work out an indivi
dual program in which they
work independently, either with
or without class attendance, and
with a minimum of detailed
supervision."
From the December issue of
the Dartmouth College Bulletin
has come detailed information in
regard to -how that institution
handles the class attendance
question. "Men in the honors
group," the Bulletin says,
"shall
not be held to the ordinary rules
of attendance. All students who,
at the end of their sophomore
year have attained a general
average of 2.6, and such others
as have attained a high average
in the department in which their
major is selected and who have
received the recommendation of
their department and the Com
mittee on Educational Policy,
may if they so elect, constitute
an honors group for special
treatment. Such men, so far .13 '
the facilities of the department
and the best interests , of the
students under its charge allow,,
shall be treated as befits their
individual needs and as their
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