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Resource Use Education Makes Three Requests of WCTC
BY AL BOOZE
Three requests were made of
Western Carolina Teachers college
by the Committee on Resource
Use Education for Western North
Carolina when the Committee met
at the school's Student Union
building Monday afternoon.
They were:
1. That W. C. T. C. establish a
Resource-Use education film ser
vice for public schools in this area'
which are participating in the pro
gram. It was suggested that the
college set up facilities for a film
library and that various interest
ed organizations, such as forestry,
public health/ and industries,-"con
tribute films to the library, which
the college would make available
to participating public schools at
, a very low cost.
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2. That the library of W. C. T. C.
collect and make available to par
ticipating schools and interested
groups literature on Resource-use
education.
3. That W. C. T. C. assist, by
supplying instructors and material,
in the setting up of "workshops"
in Resource-use education in in
terested communities. Especial em
phasis was placed upon the need
for orientation programs in the
workshops.
Representatives of the college
who were present said that they
felt that every effort would be
made by the school to comply with
the requests. W. C. T. C. has been
designated by state educational
authorities as coordinating center
for the program as it applies to this
area ? roughly, that part of North
Carolina which is west and south
of Asheville.
Western Carolina's Dean W. B.
Harrill, chairman of the committee,
in opening the conference refer
red to Mark Twain's often-quoted
remark to the effect that every
body talks about the weather, but
nobody does anything about it.
"We've all been talking about Re
( source-use education," Dean Har
| rill observed, to the approximate
I ly 60 persons who attended the
meeting, "and now it's time for
us to take some concrete action."
"It is conceivable that Resource
use education may change the
basic concept of education," he
stated. Dean Harrill said that there
was no time limit on the plan.
"We feel," he explained, "that if
a program is worth carrying on
for a year, or five years, it is worth
carrying on indefinitely."
Mr. Harrill then asked H. Bueck,
a member of W. C. T. C.'s board
of trustees and superintendent of
Murphy's public schools, and who
has been active in the program in
his area, to present to the group
"his very excellent plan."
Mr. Bueck began by telling the
assembly that "for about 5,000
years people have known what
was right, and for about 5,000
years they have been doing just
the opposite. But that's no reason
why we shouldn't try to change
their attitude toward natural and
| human resources."
| The main problem of Resource
I use education, said Mr. Bueck, i
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to make people realize that a long- !
range productive program is better
for a community than immediate
high profits on wasteful use of re
sources; to make people aware of
abuses of our resources, and arouse
in them the desire to do something
about the abuses.
i Supt. Bueck is having his school
children, from fourth-graders up,
collect, as part of their regular
class work, information on the dis
tribution and use of resources,
human and natural, in the Murphy
area. One of the main purposes of
the survey is to arouse the stu
dents' and the public's interest in
Resource-use education.
Some of the questions on which
Mr. Bueck is seeking information
! are age distribution in the section
| ? "We want to see if, and to what
1 extent, the best brains in the sec
, tion are leaving for other regions
! at the most productive age, and
why" ? family sizes, illnesses
(type, cost, resulting time lost),
death rate and causes, incomes,
farm information (acreage, types
of land, methods of cultivation,
crops, amount and types and me
thods of harvesting of timber), and
educational information, especial
ly on the amount of scientific
training that is applied to various
jobs. I
After obtaining the information,'
it is put into graphic form by mem- 1
bers^oi the mathematics classes,
and depicted on maps by geog
raphy students.
Miss Cordelia Camp, director of
the training school at Cullowhee,
suggested that Resource-use edu- ,
cation be taught as a basic part of j
present courses, such as civics, j
economics, and geography. "It's in |
the courses now," she commented,
"if we put on the right sort of
spectacles to look for it."
Dr. Richard L. Weaver, program
director, North Carolina Resource
use Education Commission, said
that the Commission had no "can
ned" program. "There is plenty of
room," he said, "for initiative and
variation in the programs of dif
ferent groups."*
A definition of the purpose of
Resource-use education was given
by D. F. Folger, director of the
Campbell Folk School, Brasstown,
"It is to teach people to live as full
a life as they can with what they
have," he said.
E. B. Garrett, Jr., director of
personnel of the Ecusta Paper cor
poration, said that Ecusta would be
glad to cooperate in the program.
E. W. Renshaw, supervisor of the
Nantahala National forest, Frank
lin, and Ira N. Chiles, TVA's area
education officer, offered the help
of their organizations.
Joe Jennings, supervisor of the
Cherokee Indian schools, said that
Resource-use education "has been
for years one of the fundamental
objectives of Indian work."
Mr. Jennings added that although
the Indians are willing to cooperate
in the program, they resent being
forced to do some of the things
that the white people are only ask
ed to do, such as harvest their tim
ber on an anpual replacement
basis and refrain from polluting
the Oconaluftee river, which flows
through the reservation.
Participating public schools in
Bethel, Hazelwood, Canton, Web
ster, Rock Bridge, Hayesville, Bre
vard, Murphy, and Bryson City
were represented at the confer
ence. I
A number of persons represent
ing Extension work, public wel-!
fare work, home j economics, min
ing, and colleges also attended. |
APPRECIATION
I wish to express my apprecia
tion to the doctors and nursing!
staff of the C. J. Harris hospital
for the kind treatment and /"Ifie
many courtesies shown me 'while ,
a patient in the hospital last week, j
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the period from noon of October
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