Gift From State Printer
School Gets100-Year-OldHandPress
By SHIRLEY LYON
A 100-year-old hand press is one of the "new" adoptions to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
The Washington hand press, as it is called, was presented to the school by Ferd Voiland Jr., the Kansas state printer. Until three years ago, it was used in the state printing offices in Topeka.
The history of the press dates back to 1827, some four centuries after Gutenberg invented and used the first movable type.
It was in that year that Samuel Rust of New York perfected the Washington press. Rusts's new machine was far more efficient and practical than other similar presses being used at that time.
Rust sold his patent to R. Hoe and company which promptly added its own improvements and manufactured more than 6,000 such machines, distributing them all over the world.
Printing experts claim that since that time there has been no hand- printing machine invented which
could surpass the Washington hand press in either principle or construction. It involves 11 distinct operations and can be operated by one man.
As the operator turns the handle at the side of the press, the bed levels from under the impression pad and in the supply, located at one end of the machine.
It then rolls back beneath the impression plate to be printed. Here the impression plate makes contact with the paper when pressure is applied by the hand lever.
Friday, Feb. 22, 1952
STUDENTS ADMIRE OLD HAND PRESS—Five students are shown admiring the 100-year-old Washington hand press given to the School of Journalism by Ferd Voiland Jr., state printer. The students (left to right) are: Shirley Piatt, college sophomore; Rozanne Atkins, journalism junior; Jean Dawson, college sophomore; Bill Blair, college sophomore and Richard Clarkson, college sophomore.—Kansan photo
by Jim Murray.
49th Year, No. 95
JOURNALISM'S PROFESSOR EMERITUS—One of the leaders in the development of journalism at the University has been L. N. "Daddy" Flint, 76-year-old professor emeritus of journalism. Professor Flint, former director of the department of journalism, started teaching journalism at KU shortly after the turn of the century. More than 1,200 students completed work in the journalism department during his reign—Kansan photo by Jim Murray.
School Offers Home Ec Plan
He Wasn't Graduated From KU, But Journalism School Has His Name
The program was instituted by the William Allen White School of Journalism last year after long study by a home economics-journalism committee.
The University is one of the few schools in the country offering a degree in home economics journalism.
Job opportunities for women completing this sequence are in women's departments of newspapers, magazines, industrial publications, house organs, radio, television and public relations.
The combined sequence is actually a double major, but both the home economics department and the School of Journalism have altered the standard major requirements to provide a more practical and better balanced program.
Women desiring to take this sequence of courses enroll in the College during their freshman and sophomore years to complete requirements in English, the foreign languages, science and other basic courses and to take some home ec. courses.
In addition to the courses required of all students in the sequence, each one chooses an area of specialization in home economics in which to take nine hours of advanced study.
'Daddy' Flint Has Played Major Role In Journalism School Development
By MARY COOPER
The past and the present harmonize gracefully at the sight of an old roll-topped desk in the new and freshly painted office of L. N. "Daddy" Flint, 76-year-old professor emeritus of journalism.
According to Mr. Flint, "it looks like the devil in that setting." But there the desk stands as a link with the past, a past which developed a few journalism courses into a department of journalism and now a School of Journalism. In all, Professor Flint has played a large part.
He retired as chairman of the department in 1941, but continued teaching us in 1943. Since then Mr. Sullivan kept us by reading, and a big yard.
"There is always something around an old place like ours that needs repairing," he said. His latest accomplishment is the completion of a book on the history of journalism at the University.
Commenting on his birthplace, Mr. Flint said, "Thayer's only achievement was getting rid of me." He
When mentioning the high school, teacher and editor roundtables, the hall of fame, various services to the editors of Kansas and high school journalism contests—all of which are still in existence today—Mr. Flint contended that he didn't originate all of these ideas, but he got them from somewhere, although he didn't know where.
calls for the last book. He sent a copy of the manuscript to William Allen White who was quite concerned that he hadn't made it more forceful.
"I was grateful for the advice, but I didn't take it. The book was not argumentative but expository for a textbook," explained Mr. Flint.
In the summertime Professor Flint "gadded about" a great deal. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Wisconsin.
In 1897 he was graduated from the University of Kansas with a major in philosophy. His first job was as a high school teacher in Olathe, but he resigned to become publisher of Manhattan Nationalist newspaper.
moved to Lawrence at the age of 15, and was graduated from Lawrence High school.
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"I've had some grand times, and they've been awfully nice to me," remarked Mr. Flint as he modestly
Mr. Flint sold his half interest in the Manhattan Nationalist in 1906 and became the first full time KU alumni secretary. Soon he was asked to lecture in journalism. "I liked to teach, and my newspaper and teaching experience had qualified me for the job," he explained.
Professor Flint joined the department of journalism even before it had fully separated from the English department. He became chairman of the department in 1916, continuing as such for 25 years.
The professor is the author of several books, including "The Editorial," "Newspaper Writing in High School!" and "The Conscience of the Newspaper." Mr. Flint still gets
By JOAN LAMBERT
Sixty-five years ago there was a boy throwing his weight around KU politics named William Allen White. He never was graduated because a position as business manager on the ElDorado Republican seemed brighter than the prospects of meeting the University mathematics requirement.
Today a school of the University bears his name—the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information founded in 1945, the year after the Emporia editor's death.
William Allen White, author, liberal, and editor of the Emporia Gazette, was born Feb. 10, 1868, in Emporia. Seventy-six years later, after a career that took him from Kansas City and Washington, D.C., to Moscow and Haiti, he died in the town of his birth on Jan. 29, 1944.
Allen White, a doctor, his wife, Mary Ann Hatten, a former school teacher, and a 10-year-son home-steaded in ElDorado when pioneer Kansas was raw and young; when Indians, still a threat, came begging at back doors and the prairie stretched westward from the White's front door an unbroken sheet of grass to the Rocky Mountains 600 miles away.
The son of a "Stephen Douglas Copperhead" father who had courted his "black abolitionist" wife by mail, White grew up in an atmosphere of freely expressed ideas. His childhood and youth could be the story of any Kansas-born octogenerarian sitting on the benches around the town square today.
In ElDorado, Willie White was a member of the grade school aristocracy that dominated the many new children moving into town daily.
At KU he joined everything, even the band—although he couldn't read a note of music. He pledged a fraternity and learned how to maniculate student affairs.
This experience proved valuable to him when he later began to poke his nose into politics—local, state, and national. It went well with his profession of reporting and editing. As he drifted through smoke filled rooms, he gained an astonishing knowledge of the great nation of political horse-trading from the sad saga of the Bull Moose bolt in 1912 to sidelights on county clerks.
He was a fat, pimply-faced boy who, when not good enough to play on the team, kept score. He became the neighborhood "boss" by virtue of his wonderful barn equipped with a flying trapeze and other properties considered valuable to small boys.
Will White came to KU in the fall of 1886. He was only a fair to good student. He helped support himself by setting type in newspaper offices.
At the age of 25 he married Sallie Lindsay, a Kansas City school teacher. Two years later he bought the Emporia Gazette, then an obscure country paper, and moved to central Kansas.
With his new paper White embarked on a campaign opposed to
the populist movement being led by William Jennings Bryan. In the heat of editorial battle he wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas?" an editorial which brought him immediate fame.
Another editorial, "To An Anxious Friend," won him a 1923 Pulitzer prize. Other of his published works are "Woodrow Wilson, the Times and His Task." "Politics, the Citizen's Business," "Calvin Coolidge, the Man Who is President," and "Masks in a Pageant."
Rich Man," the latter selling 250,000 copies. His autobiography, familiar to all University students enrolled in Western Civilization, was written in 1937.
Still other books by him include "The Real issue," "The Court of Boyville," "In Our Town," "The Heart of a Fool." and "A Certain
Although concerned with politics, White ran for public office only once. Incensed at the Republican nomination for governor of Kansas in 1924, he ran on an independent ticket and lost.
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
In 1930 he went to Haiti as a member of the Hoover commission to study the crisis there. He advocated withdrawal of American troops, which later was done. He traveled to Moscow in 1933 to report conditions there for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance.
As a member of the American Palestine committee in 1941, he advocated large scale colonization of Palestine by Jewish refugees. That same year, as a member of the Committee of Negro Americans in defense industries, he denounced discrimination against them in such employment.