THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EDITORS REST A BIT AT JOURNALISM MEET
Sigma Delta Chi Entertains Newspaper Men at Novel Smoker
Roy Bailley of the Scilna Journal voiced the appreciation of about seventy-five Kanas editors in response to an article by Joe Turner, president of Sigma fraternity at the smoker given by the men's journalistic fraternity for members of the Kanas State Editorial Association and the Sigma Nu Press Club at the Sigma Nu University.
"We're glad to be here," said Mr. Bailey. "These men like to get away from home and have a good time. It's a good thing for the editors and a good thing for the communities. You are showing us a mighty nice time."
The editors began to come in from the Country Club about 9 o'clock and for three quarters of an hour there was a general "get-together" in which the young newspapermen of the University availed themselves of the opportunity of meeting the newsman men of the state. Everything went secure to the price of paper was discussed over the Clippers and punch.
It was nearly 10 o'clock when hosts and guests ascended the stairs to the spacious hall room for the program which had been planned. Howard and his crew read a poem, the huge delight of the editors, entitled "A Miracle." Then the Hamilton brothers proceeded with their bag of tricks, the one giving several dialect examples. The Rabbit stories while the latter sent the crowd into paroxysms of laughter with his clever pianologue stunts. Mr. Roy Barley was then called on to make a response for the Kauaus who were very few laughs himself. Music was for the Phi Mu Alma house orchestra.
After first making sure that everyone had a place to "park his tooth brush," editors and hosts prepared to "hit the hay."
Kansas Editorial Association in Session Today
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varsising is like a little learning, at times it is a trifle dangerous. One man started advertising with only a couple of friends, he made a new contract, he increased the amount of advertising and now, he is using nine times the amount that he used in his first contract."
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"Your main task is in educating the non-advertiser, the irregular advertiser, and the small space advertiser, and you will have done a good work for the town, for the public and for the mayor."
H. W. Albright, of the Western Newspaper Union, of Wichita, spoke to the Association on the subject of "As They Effect the Newspaper."
"The wage problem is the most difficult of all industrial problems," said Mr. Albright, "because it bears directly upon the distribution of wealth, hence touched closely on our lives with its ambitions, hopes and fears."
Throughout his address, he pointed out the fact that wages must be liquidated. "Just how far they should be reduced is what is worrying every employer today. Wages and freight rates are the two big problems confronting American business in its effort to return to normality."
"It takes real diplomacy to keep the payroll where it will not eat up profits and cause the balance sheet to show up in the red each month."
Mr. Albright suggested that the cultivation of loyalty and efficiency with employees would do much to ward solving the problem.
"I want to lay emphasis upon the necessity of the employer seeking the good will and loyalty of his employees," he said. "He interested in their welfare. The new business world has a huge need for people, the boss to 'Mickie' has to work and work hard in order to maintain a profit for the business."
If the increase in cooperation and efficiency should not solve the problem, Mr. Albright said that the only solution would be to bring the salaries to a level with the amount of business, and cited instances where the payroll was made to conform to the profits with success.
Chancellor E. H. Lindsley welcomed the members of the Kansas Editorial Association in Fraser Chapel this afternoon.
"It gives me great pleasure to greet you here. The Kansas press is a very vigorous, free press in all of the Kansas educational functions."
"The University is like Boston-a state of being. We have had since 1909 buildings and facilities for 2,000 with an aggregate enrollment of 4000. But last year the legislature appropriated enough to enable us to build a new power plant, complete the Administration Building this year and move it to the Stadium. The buildings will be finished. The new library to be south and west of Fraser will finish the buildings on the campus.
"Old North College hill has been taken as the site for the home of the first women's dormitory. This is a long that has been fought for a long time."
"We're glad you're here. We're sorry that the illacs are past their prime, but we do have the spire for us." The Wakura valley and the Kawwai.
CASWELL SPEAKS TO EDITORS
Managing Director of Iowa Press Association Gives Address This Morning
G. L. Cassell spoke to the editors on "Making the Editorial Association of More Value to Its Members." Mr. Cassell is Managing Director of the Iowa Press Association and is here at Flint to speak to the visiting editors.
"I have made enough money in the country newspaper business so that I do not have to work unless I want to," he said in opening. "But," he added. "if we had had the organization in Iowa then that we have now, I could point to at least $50,000 more in my bank account."
He pointed out that making money was as essential to a successful news-paper as writing good editorials.
"At the first meeting of Iowa editors in 1915 they found that they were looting great opportunities because they had no definite organization. An organization was formed by a secretary chosen. In a short time they had over 200 members. Two years later Mr. Caswell was elected secretary with a salary of $1,500 a year and an understanding that he had the organization one-half of his time."
His first job was to go after foreign advertising and standardize the rates charged for it by country papers. At first they had much trouble because the newspapers cut their rate, but now the rate card has a pledge at the bottom which every member of the association must sign. If a newspaper cuts rates to foreign advertisers, it is simply dropped from the list.
A "Blaue Ribbon List" of newspapers belonging to the Association published annually and sent free to any advertiser that may send for it, is one of the important features of the Association's work. This list, known as "the pledge of honor," is known all over the country, Mr. Cassell said, and includes the policy and integrity of the Association's policy, and is recognized as such.
Mr. Caswell touched especially upon the importance of such an organization as the editorial association to the best interests of the state, and incidentally to the newspaper fragrance. As examples, he cited the work of the association as a body in its influence upon the legislature of the state.
Libel laws that now permit a paper to retract its statement before suit is filed have been a direct result of the association's work, he said. Publishing of school) taxes, and clearing up of confusing points in laws governing publishing by newspapers, have been other services.
Mr. Caswell complimented the Kansas press for the number of noted men that it includes. "They are world beaters," he said.
The press is discriminated against, Mr. Caswell believes. "The same investment, the same brains, the same money, goes into a newspaper game as in 'business'," he said, "yet the newspaper man never profits materially in the same manner that a 'business man', such as a banker, does."
He urged the country newspapers to conserve their material in the way of printers and apprentices. "The papers in the city, with moneyed incentives behind them, will draw all the persons whom you have trained," he said.
a state editorial association is practically indispensable, Mr. Caswell asserted. Through such an endeavor the country may at any time get in
touch with any member of the newspaper profession. Conferences are called whenever needed and problems of the individual members are discussed, protected, and the public given a greater confidence in its newspapers.
"Getting information that the members want, when they want it, is the big purpose of the organization," Mr. Casswell concluded.
ONE SPEECH GIVEN BY PROXY
John Montgomery Unable to Attent-
Grandson Makes Address
"Changes in the newspaper game are not so numerous as one might think," said John Montgomery, of the Junction City Union. Mr. Montgomery was unable to attend the convention because he had been his grandson, John Montgomery, a freshman in the University, who intends to be a journalist, making the third generation of newspapermen in his family. The speech was a comeback for him, of sixty years ago, and the difficulties that beset the editors of that time.
Mr. Montgomery's first experience was in Fairfield, Iowa, carrying 160 papers for twenty-cents a week. The papers were wet when they came off the press, and if a subscriber notice that his paper was dry he would know, and complain of the fact, that the carrier had been lettering. The paper was so thick that time was to bind himself out as an apprentice for three years, getting one dollar a week and his board. He was paid every six months, and the early printers often had a hard time getting together the necessary funds. A printer of those days got ten dollars a week, for working twelve hours a day, with very little spare time, for it took the most part of a week to get out the paper. Besides there was always type to put in the cases in his office. A copy of "Dear Queen" while "telegraph" news would come via express, and the editor would rush to the bank for a loan on the strength of it.
"The banker was the backbone of the newspapers of that day," said Mr. Montgomery, "without the aid of the banker and his loans the small town newspaper would have had a much harder time than it did."
Advertising was paid for in "trade," because very few merchants wanted to pay the whole amount in cash. The whole bill for a month would usually not exceed fifteen dollars. The circus was the prize attraction to the printer and twenty-five dollars cash, and twenty-five passes to the "performance."
In 1871, Mr. Montgomery started the Ellsworth Reporter, and bought a marble slab in Leaventworth from a monument maker, to use as a makeup stone. As the paper is still going down, the stone evidently had no ill effect.
The real work of the newspaper is still the same, according to Mr. Montgomery, and through the methods of operation have changed, the only real difference is in the changed fortunes of the newspaper men.
COUNTRY PAPER IS PROBLEM
Mrs, Charles Browne Tells of Her Experiences With Horton Headlight
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"Newspaper people should get the facts in collecting news," said Mrs. Charles Browne, who spoke this afternoon. "But think how flat newspapers would be if nothing was exaggerated. Running a country newspaper has many pitfalls and one has a lot to contend with."
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Mrs. Browne was left in complete charge of the Horton Headlight-Commercial when her husband was called to the Mexican border several years ago. Then only newspaper experience she had had was what she had picked up from association. Mrs. Browne ran the Horton Headlight for three years and has had had charge of the paper at intervals several times since then.
When she first took the paper she found herself in complete charge with practically no warning, and with no advice from her husband or anyone else. She found herself through "Which is probably why she did it so well," said Mr. Browne.
Mrs. Browne enjoys newspaper work, but told of some of the things the country editor has to contend with. She describes dealing with a small town society "times," she said, "the editor must get every name. If one is out it may hurt."
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A few persons have even written to engage rooms for next fall. One student came into the office with the tale that nearly all the rooming houses were already filled for next year, but Mrs. Bryant assured her that conditions had not become quite so extreme as rumors made them.
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