UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Being a Short Story Of the Hows and Whys Of the Daily Kansan
Work Starts In Early Morning And Lasts Till Late At Night
News Editor Is Important
Lawyers
Reporters Make Mistakes—But So Do Doctors and Lawyers
Being a little sketch of the way the Kansan is formed, day in and day out Time: One day, Place: Campus Characters: The students who work.
Act 2. Several reporters, sophomores mostly, and one or two Kansan board members have arrived by this time and are ready for work. The sophomores are reporters and the board members are copy readers for the most part. Assignments are given to the reporters who usually have only one hour in which to get their seat and write it before going to class. Copy to readers is given to the copy designers. The news editor designates the size head wanted on the story. A style sheet of heads is the guide by which the copy writers write the heads. Uniformity is one thing demanded on the Kansan.
Act 1: The news editor comes on duty as soon as his breakfast is over and he can get to the Hill. First he goes over the assignment and then he far as possible the afternoon before. He adds assignments he has thought of over night. He looks over the copy on the desk. He finds out how much is in the hands of the linotype operators. If they are short of copy he sees to it and are supplied, for it is a fundamental are supplied, that the machines shall never be idle.
Act 3: A few reporters bring in stories assigned to them the day before. These are edited and sent to the machine immediately. The man on the desk knows that the chancellor is just back from Chicago after attending a Y. M. C. A. convention. Also he knows the chancellor will something good in the way it story. He sends a reporter after it. Tells him to give a good story on the No padding, either. Trouble with most of the new reporters being that they like to write to lofty heights. The reporter gets his story, peeks it in on the typewriter and turns it in.
Act 4: By 10 o'clock the news editor who has been to one or two classes in the meantime it has fairly well figured out what his main stories of the day will be. He sees that the reporters are speeded up stories, turning up accounts. No one knew the story was coming. The news editor sends his best reporter out on the story. At 12 o'clock most of the copy which must appear that day is in the hands of the news editor. He usually works through the noon hour and by one thirty o'clock every evening he goes on the machine and the news editor rests back for a few minutes' rest before going to the back office to make-up. Make-up in the vernacular of the actor means applying paint and wings to one's countenance. Make-up in the newspaper man's life includes columns of his paper with the lives of the day. The make-up printer does as the news editor says and soon the paper is on the press, "put to bed," is the way newspaper folks say it. The forms are locked and a proof is made. Everyone seizes those first copies, for the press to own first copy. All last minute-mistakes caught the press is started and by five o'clock the paper is mailed out and delivered to its country and city subscribers.
Act 5: The news editor hasn't been the only one busy during the day. Not by a long shot. There are other students just as important in the forming of the Kansan as the news editor. Those are the editor, who is responsible for the policies of the paper. And the Kansan has policies. Everything must be commented on and a definite stand must be taken. And some of the opinions cause considerable trouble. Irate readers call in to see why this and why that they must deal with these unpleasanties. But it's all in the day's wor- and who ever knew a newspaper that ran without some kickers. It's the life of the business. The editor-in-chief must write a column or two of editors each day. What happens before the machines are kept busy with news matter during the morning.
Act 6: Then comes the advertising manager. This man holds his job throughout the entire year. His results either make or break the Kansan. If he is energetic he gets the advertising that makes the Kansan. If he is slow the Kansan loses money. So far in the history of the Kansan no business manager has been slow. The Kansan always gets its share of the business of the city of Lawrence.
Act 7: A circulation manager
tries out campaigns on the students and faculty and fathers and mothers of the students in the hope that the circulation will take a big bound upward. Usually nothing comes of his efforts but the manager has learned something and that's what he's after.
And there you have a half-way fair picture of the way it's all done every school day in the week. Miss Sanders helps to the little story about doctors being able to bury their mistakes and professors being able to hide their mistakes in their classrooms and students being able to stall by teachers.
But the Kanan—No, it shows the few mistakes it has five days a day.
Set Day's Program Up Half Hour and Save Daylight—Dr. Charles
Reduce Number of Social Engagements to Give Time to Military Training
Dr. Grace Charles, assistant professor of botany, believes that a daylight-saving plan would be as convenient as it is necessary at the University.
"Exercise for all students has been adopted primarily because it has been found that the health of the ordinary Charles. "This is owing to two things. Students do not take enough exercise and they do not get enough sleep. For many students, the eight o'clock class makes the lack of sleep more evident.
"My idea is that the program of the day should be set forward half an hour. Dinner would then be at 6 o'clock instead of 6:30 o'clock, the first dinner at 7 o'clock, all parties would have the hours 7:30 to 11:30 o'clock, and the date rule would be set forward half an hour. If the University would start the movement and get the town to cooperate there would be no hardship in having classes at 8 o'clock and the day's program could continue in normal manner.
"There is, of course, another possibility," said Doctor Charles. "As we are preaching conservation along all lines, it would not be unreasonable to ask that we save on the amount of money we spend, because they might reduce the number of their social engagements. This will be the natural thing to do after military training is started, for just as athletes absorbs time and interest, so military exercise will take much of the time when now given to social engagements."
Camp Cody Libraries Short On Newspapers
Mrs. P. F. Walker's Letter Tells Lack Of Amusement In Camp
The need of libraries for our boys in camp is shown by the following extracts from a private letter from Mrs. P. F., Walker who is now at Doming, N. M., while her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Walker, is stationed at Camp Cody near the University of Notre Dame and Mrs. Smith who are here from the University of Colorado doing library work at Camp Cody. They are cataloging the books shipped here for the camp library down town and sending them out to camp as rapidly as possible, and keeping them on hand for use. They told me they would be glad of some assistance, and I am going to try to help a little there.
"The library work is very necessary, as there is so little for the boys in this little town. I hunted around for the library town, but the library was found Mr. and Mrs. Smith working at this camp work, and found that the library was open only from 3 to 5 o'clock on Wednesdays and Saturdays. There is not a place where you can sit down around the places—it is just opened to give an occasional book, evidently."
Russian Commission Inspects Oil Fields
Three members of the Russian commission to the United States and Dr. David White, chief geologist of the United States, are spending several days with Dr. Raymond C. Moore, state geologist, inspecting the Butler county oil fields with the state geological survey.
The members of the commission are Anenin A. Snietkoff, member of the geological committee, Petrotrad; Ivan M. Grobbkin, in charge of the Russian geological survey, and M. Stephanofon, a geologist and interpreter for the party. The Kansas wells are the largest in the mid-continent oil fields and are of great importance to the government now, Dr. Moore says.
The Daily Texan is issuing a State Fair edition during the fair at Dallas. Each day 8,000 copies of the Texan distributed at the University exhibit.
Horrible Dreams Come After Horrifying Movie
The three sympathetic maids who chewed their fingernails and suppressed horrified screams at "the Movie," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" last night might have been saved their mince-pie dreams but they known the scientific which the miracle was taken.
The traditionally beautiful heroine was in no dangger of being suffocated in the many armed octapus and the modernized athletic hero really did not dodge those awful sea monsters in true torseor style. It was a perfectly natural style because between them and those hair raising dangers there was a tank of water in which swam the horrors of the ocean. The picture was taken with the machine on one foot, stepping into a centimeter tank and the voters on the other.
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It is true that the scenes in which the professional divers appeared were taken under the water but all was safe, even the mechanic at the camera was a professional diver in a real diver's suit.
The following officers were elected Tuesday at the meeting of the Sociology Club. Warren Pearson, president; Irma Leo, secretary; Lucile Hovey, treasurer. The next meeting will take place at 123 Elm Street Tuesday, Oct. 30. Prof. M. C. Elmer will talk to the club on 'Calls for Social Workers."
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Sociology Club Elects
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