The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
(By FRANK T.. GRAHAM.)

(By FRANK T.. GRAHAM.)
Chapel Hill, May 30.-The prop
hetic note struck at the opening OF
the year that the University campus
should be co-extensive with the
oundarie of the State is becoming
genuinely real in the sound and va
rious activities of the bureau Of eX-
tension. Twenty thousand and sixty
pieces of mail on innumerable sub
jectS relating to the needs Of the
school room, home life. farm candi-
tions. municipal problems, and ques-
tions of State concern, ave gone
from the responsive hands of DR.. l..
r. Wilson, director of the bureau Of
extension, into communities and by
ways all over the State n beyond.
One undre n thirty two lectur-
es by members of the University
faculty before farmers' unions, Ii
terary clubs. chambers Of commerce.
county teachers associations, good
roads Institutes, city Y. NJ. c. A.
gatherings, schools m colleges, "a
covered the State and reached a total
audience of 264.OOo people. The cor
~reSpondence curse under Prof. Noble
i'm it's beginning yea has an enroll
ment OF twelve, and is the
for carrying the University curricu-
lum into the work places of the
State. .
Many Bulletins Issued.
The extension bulletins have been
used by the thousands. They have
become so familiar as to be often in
Dictated in requests merely by their
numbers. Number 1, THE Profess
sional Library for Secondary Schools
compiled by Prof. Chase to give high
school teachers an available list Of
books for their general and techni-
cal training has had a circulation of
1850. Number 2, Addresses on Edu-
cation had a mailing reach OF four
thousand. and was the basis for spe-
cial defamation contests in the Ap-
pAlachian Training School, the Bay
Leaf high school. and the Alamance
county schools. Number ). THE mi
tiative and Referendum" furnished
material Of $500. The substance OF
it's contents is the most familiar story
in the minds Of young North Caro-.
linians. The quality OF this bulletin
has been recognized in other States
Forty requests for number 5 have
come from the State Of Indiana. No
6. Public Discussion and Debate
which is devoted to the methods O.
organization and conduct Of debating
societies and public assemblies, ha!
met a very wide need in North Caro-
lima. Its suggestions on the use o
materials and development of though
together with its local subject matte
for discussion. make it a manual 0
great practical helpfulness to schoo
societies. women's clubs, unions, ant
all sorts of gatherings. Concerne,
with conditions and problems imme
diate to our common life. This bull
letin has been approved and adopte,
by the United State Bureau of Edu
cation and sen broadcast over tn
nation.
The library is a powerful adjunC
to the extension movement. 1t is
sort OF loan and trust 70
the State with special regard for com
Wupities without public library faci
ht'es. The library fee is postage 70
the transportation of the book. Sue
o as HilQuitt's Socialism
James. Variety Of Religious ExpeI
%ience." and Giddings Sociology
have been subject to frequent re
quests. -Four hundred and fourtee
books and pamphlets have gone frel
the shelves of the library into tn
homes of the people.
Letters All AgIow.
Fourteen hundred letters hay
come to the bureau as a dispensar
OF information. books. pamphlets. bu
letinS, and lecturers. These letter
many of them aslow with the heartf
fire. touch up the routine of the wof
with human interest and put a quicl
er leap of life inte the tired clerc;
fingers that stamp the envelope
bulletins. A parent writes: Il wish
take advantage of all such help as
expect to find in your bulletins for IL
benefit of myself and family and e
pecialiy my boys who are now
loo A boy writes for. "A decl
nation with plenty of force and abo
eight minutes long" A young mi
Ina writing interpolates. LAS | am
subject" A man in Florida writ
tn thu University of North Clrnli