Editorial Supplement
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Editorial Supplement
VOLUME X
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 83.
The official student paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITORIAL STAFF
RICHARD GARDNER    *Managing Chief*
HARLAN KNIPFSON    *Managing Editor*
WARD MARIS        *Campus Editor*
EDWARD HACKNEY       *Sporting Ed*
BUSINESS
JAMES LEIDICH . . . Adv. Mgr.
A J. E. PALMER . . . Asst. Adv. Mgr.
A J. C. MADDEN . . Circulation Mgr.
KANSAN ROARD
HERERT FLINT
EDWARD HOFFMAN
WAVNE WINGART
OMAR HITE
SAUD
L. E. HOWE
ENTERTAINMENT
HENRY MALOY
EARL POWMAN
Published in the afternoon five time a week, by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31, 1913.
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Address all communications to UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, Lawrence.
SO OUR FRIENDS MAY KNOW
There is confusion as to the relation of the University Daily Kansan and the department of journalism even in the minds of some of our best friends, and it seems fitting at this time to set a few misconceptions right.
The University Daily Kansan has no connection with the department of journalism. This paper is owned by students, is edited by students, and it pays its own way even to the largest set of students interested in the department of journalism press but we pay in full for this service.
When the department was re-organized a year and a half ago, we disliked one arrangement. Until then the department through the University allowed the old tri-weekly $450 a year as a subsidy. The new head of the department refused to give us this subsidy, turning the money back to the state. He then allowed us how to stand on our own legs, how to publish a paper successfully without a subsidy.
This training consisted largely in establishing a cost system which allowed us to discover leaks in publishing. It also taught us how to carry on successful circulation campaigns (the first six months showed an increase in circulation receipts of more than 400 per cent) and as taught in the advertising department, and as far as we know the Daily Kansan gave Lawrence its first scientific rate card based on sworn circulation.
And yet one other thing. In all this the Daily Kansan claimed as its field the University campus. It has made no effort to be anything other than a college paper, and its circulation work has been directed only among students, faculty and graduates. Its advertising receipts have grown normally, responding to campaigns carefully carried out. In 1912 the Daily Kansan carried about 40 per cent more advertising than in 1911. About half of this increase, or $400, was foreign.
In justice to the department of journalism, the Daily Kansas takes pleasure in presenting the following opinions and opinions about its work.
TELL OF LATEST STATE WORK
The United Typothetae of America and the Ben Franklin Club of America are respectfully requested to direct their attention to the Kansas University idea of helping the country printer-publisher. If they could get this plan in operation in every state through universities, a work they can never do thoroughly themselves will be provided for.—Printing Trade News.
It seems to the Printing Trade News that this Kansas plan is the most practical that could be envolved. It is only by personal call on the country printer-publisher that his interest can be engaged or that he can be helped by being directed along proper lines.
This work of the Kansas State University in behalf of the printing-publishing trade has a parallel in the
Accounting, Bookkeeping and Cost Correspondence Course of the University of Wisconsin, and it would appear that the printing industry is on the point of receiving valuable assistance through state-supported universities--Printing Trade News.
HIGH QUALITY OF THE WORK
An academic endorsement of the department is contained in the fact that its work is approved by the Graduate School of the University for credit towards advanced degrees. The Regents of the University say in their last report to the governor:
The department of journalism has been enlarged and provided with a new plant and a new location during the past year. The head of the department on full time was appointed in August of 1911, and into his hands was given the whole matter of publicity of the University. Its work has largely increased in amount and efficiency and its influence in the University is constantly increasing. The work in journalism proved successful from the first. The department has grown normally and the work that it has done has been tested by experience in actual life.
EDITORS ENDORSE WORK
(Resolutions Adopted by the Kansas Editorial Association at Topeka, Jan. 28, 1913.)
Resolved, That we the Kansas Editorial Association commend the work of the Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas and the Department of Industrial Journalism at the State Agricultural college, in giving practical training in newspaper work and equipping students for better service. We believe they should receive every encouragement and be given the means to fulfill their plans for usefulness to Kansas newspaper interests.
We favor the carrying on of the plans of the Department of Journalism at the University of Kansas for placing a cost expert at the service of Kansas publishers who represent the sixth industry in Kansas, but have received no direct benefit along the lines of service work done by the state institutions.
Resolved, That we request the University to publish the booklet on a simplified cost system for small printing offices, prepared by the Department of Journalism, in order that it may be distributed among the editors and printers of Kansas.
(From the 1912 Proceedings of the Kansas Editorial Association)
We commend the State University for its work in promoting, through the Department of Journalism, a scientific study of journalistic work and printing. We commend the work that this department is doing in equipping young men and women to enter newspaper work as for years it has educated them to practice law, pharmacy or medicine. We recommend to the Department a continuation of its close relationship to the newspapers of the state and that it broaden the scope of its work along the lines of the present University Extension by work in the interest of the newspaper and job printing offices of the state in the installation of the cost system and other improvements that will tend to put these offices on a more uniform and scientific basis.
H. A. HART
ANNA CARLSON
JOHN REDMOND
Whereas, The State University is furnishing experts in various lines of state work free of cost to the members of the various professions, therefore be it resolved that the First District Election Association in convention assembled, request that the Regents of the State University employ a competent newspaper and printing expert whose services may be had by the editors and printers of this state on request.
Resolution Committee (Resolution Passed by the First District, Edison)
Carried.
A similar resolution was adopted by the Southwest Editorial Association.
K. U. HELPS THE EDITOR
Utilization of the by-product of the printing plant of the department of journalism, operating a Monotype, enables the department to serve Kanaas editors by offering to trade new type for old. The type is cast in several standard faces, due care being taken as to the composition and print qualities. At present the requests on hand amount to seven hundred pounds of type ranging in size from twelve to thirty-six point.
information regarding the cost system in printing offices is furnished by the department, and to anyone visiting the department's plant the system in operation is gladly demonstrated in every detail. The department is anxious to carry out the recommendation of the state editorial association and other editorial associations in Kansas districts by putting its cost expert at the service of the newspapers of the state to a still larger extent. The estimates of the department now before the legislature in the University budget call for a cost expert to devote his full time to assisting the cost system. Wisconsin borrowed this idea from Kansas, and having the funds available was able to put a man in the field about four months ago. It is the confident hope of the department that it may undertake this work beginning with the next fiscal year.
Appreciating the fact that usually the editor who wishes to sell his paper dislikes to advertise that fact and believing that there is a large demand by newspaper men of other states for papers in Kansas, the newspaper commonwealth, the department of journalism has established a newspaper clearing house which lists on a private record papers that are for sale and sends to the owners of such papers the names of possible purchasers. There are some thirty papers now on the list and indications have been received from as far away as New Jersey. The department does not give opinions as to the establishment of new papers in fields already occupied, but maintains its clearing house solely for the convenience of Kansas editors. The service is free.
Furnishing estimates on cost of extensive or complicated printing jobs is one of the branches of the work done by the department of journalism for the benefit of the editors of the state. The owner of a printing plant sometimes receives an exceptionally technical piece of work on which he would like to see an expert's estimate in order to assure himself that his own estimate overlooks nothing. Suggestions along this line, working towards greater efficiency in the printing business of the state, are gladly given by the department.
Referring to the discussion between Dean Talcott Williams of the Pulitzer School of Journalism and Prof. Merle Thorpe of the University of Kansas as to whether journalism instruction should include practical taining in all departments, an editorial in the January number of the Inland Printer concludes:
AN EXPERT VIEW OF KANSAS METHODS
"If schools of journalism are founded with the sole aim of training men as professional writers for the great metropolitan dailies, it probably will be a waste of time and energy to inject into their curricula courses bearing on the cost of publishing. But we believe the universities will miss their greatest opportunity for rendering service to American journalism if they leave off consideration the importance of the country press and the most pressing needs of the country editors."
"We are of the opinion that Prof. Thorpe is right in his conclusion that journalism, in its broader sense, comprehends more than the ability to write, to edit, and to discriminate between the good and the bad in editorial policy and new features. The great majority of editors in this country own, in part at least, the journals they edit. Their success as journalists depends as much upon their business management as upon their abilities. And two qualifications cannot be separated if we are to consider the effect of the editor's opinions upon his readers."
LINES OF INSTRUCTION AND PRACTICE
Since students from the department of journalism go out into all lines of newspaper work, the department has organized its courses to meet the broadest requirements. it insists in almost all cases that students learn the back office and the details of newspaper management, whether they expect to become reporters or editors, or advertise businesses here. The foundation of a newspaper's success as a social organ.
The first course, "The Newspaper" offers the student a thorough knowledge of the materials and methods in newspaper work, an intensive study of the different types of stories. Daily practice in gathering information from news sources Daily Kaman gives the student experience under close criticism.
The second course is a continuation of the first, dealing with the organization* of the newspaper office—enabling the student to feel at home in a small paper. Daily news assignments are covered by each student.
"Comparative Journalism," is a scientific study of all types of newspapers to give the student broad access to information in other policies as a newspaper man.
"Mechanics of Printing," is the first course introducing the student to the back office. He works like any printer's apprentice except that he receives more thorough instruction in every detail of the subject.
"History of American Journalism," is another course to acquaint the student with the achievements and the leaders in the journalistic field and to increase his enthusiasm for his profession.
"interpretation of the News," is a practice course in editorial writing, involving preparatory study of current history and events, and examination of the rules of effective newspaper editing.
"Newspaper Administration," requires the student to understand every item of expense in running a paper, to be familiar with the cost system, to handle subscription and advertising campaigns for the Daily Kansan, to keep books showing every night just where the paper stands financially, and in general to become a competent business manager for a newspaper.
"Advertising," offers the student the benefit of the best opinions of the day on every department of the advertising side of the newspaper business. He studies advertising principles, interviews merchants as to their advertising problems, solicits advertising for the Daily Kansan, writes copy and sees that it gets into the paper in the right shape.
"The Short Story," is a study of the relation of manner to material in newspaper work, using the short story to illustrate the value of form in the news, human interest and feature stories on social life. The way that so many successful newspaper men have followed into magazine writing.
"Editorial Problems and Politics," takes up the ethics of journalism, the editor's relation to the public and to his readers. Students are "put up against" the problems that they will encounter (and in any newspaper office, and are required to find the best solution for any difficult situation.
"Editorial Practice," gives the student experience as desk man or city editor or managing editor. He prepares and edits copy for the Daily Kansan and for other newspapers and periodicals.
A SELF SUPPORTING
LABORATORY
The journalism laboratory is the only one in the country that is self-supporting-it does not receive a
"The Art of Printing" offers practical work in designing advertisements, title pages, etc., equipping the student for better editorial supervision of the mechanical side of the paper and preparing him for ownership of a newspaper with a printing business in connection. Two additional courses are ready for announcement: a broad cultural course in the present newspaper tendencies in this country, and a business course in handling of special advertising campaigns.
During the years that the student is pursuing his work in journalism, he is also required to spend about three-fourths of his time in other University departments covering such subjects as history, sociology, economics, and English.
cent from the state for maintenance.
It goes so far as to pay three-fourths
Students learning newspaper work need to work in live material. Laboratory students do job work for their fellow students and members of the faculty. It has been a castiron rule from the beginning that no outside commercial work should be accepted, since that would put the state plant in the position of competing with private concerns.
The money received for this work from students and student organizations goes back in large measure to poor students who work in the labory at 20 cents an hour. About $1500 was thus paid out to students last year, and nine students earned all their expenses in the laboratory.
KANSAS A PIONEER.
Thirty-three American Universities and colleges give instruction in journalism. The following is the complete list:
Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.
Columbia, University, New York City
Depauw University, Greencastle,
Ind.
Harvard University, Cambridge Mass.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
Iowa State Agricultural College,
Ames, Ia.
Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan, Kansas.
Mt. Holyoke College, Mt. Holyoke, Mass.
Marquette University, Milwaukee Wis.
Massachusetts Agricultural College. Amherst, Mass.
Notre Dame University, Notre
Dame, Iowa.
New York University, New York City.
University of California, Berkely
University of Chicago, Chicago.
University of Colorado, Boulder.
University of Alabama.
University of Kansas, Lawrence.
University of Kentucky, Lexington
University of Louisiana, Bato Rouge.
Rouge.
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
University of Missouri, Columbia.
University of Maine, Orono.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
University of Noth Carolina.
Chapel Hill.
University of Ohio, Columbus.
University of Oregon, Eugene.
University of Oklahoma, Norman.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
University of South Dakota, Vermont.
University of Southern California Los Angeles.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
ENROLLMENT GROWS
University of Washington, Seattle;
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In three of these universities, Marquette, Columbia and Missouri,
in provincialism is organized in the form of a professional school
and in seven of the others it constitutes a separate department of
the university-Oregon. Notre Dame, Kansas, Washington, Wisconsin, Iowa, College of Agriculture, and Kansas State Agricultural College.
ECONOMICAL MAIN-
TENANCE
COMMENTS ON WORK.
A market for Kansas newspapers will, it is said, be established in connection with the journalistic department of the Kansas University at Lawrence, Kan. Officials of the school state that they receive requests every week from editors who wish to buy or sell newspapers and the deputy commissioner of the university a clearing house for prospective buyers and sellers. After the plan is tried in Kansas it is to be extended through co-operation with departments of journalism in other schools, to include several states in the middle west—The Publishers' Guide.
While students in the department of journalism have access to four seasoned newspaper men, yet the state provides for only two men in the department. The alumni association pays one-third of one professor's salary; the printing laboratory which is self-supporting, in turn pays three-fourths of the salary of another, and four-fifths of the time of a third man is given to another department.
Enrollment in the department of journalism shows a continued normal increase. The following figures cover the registration for the last eight years:
1904. . . . .
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
They are:-
Seventy-nine young men and women living in every corner of America within the last college year have written for information about department of journalism courses with a view to enrolling in September.
Louis M. Layman, Lexington, Va,
Wm. L. French, Kansas City, Mo,
R. C. Duyer, Denver, Colo., H. M.
Cooper, Sturgis, So. Dak, Dr. C. W.
Brown, Brunswick, Mo., Harry Eldred,
Chicago III, L., Kennedy,
C. F. Wren, C. F. Wren,
Fred A. Price, Baldwin, Ks, D,
Shaw, Kansas City, Mo, E. L. Hege,
Durham, N. C., C. B. Carpenter,
Girard, Ks.
A. T Foster, Freeport, Kans., Russell Waldo, Pipestone, Mont., Ord Warfield, Omaha, Nebr., Harry Rose, Glenwood, Wash., Robert Reed, Almena, Ks. Mary E. Kay, Alliance, S.C. Bane, Kansas City, Mo., R. V. Hadley, Bradford, Pa., Roy Bennett, Lexington, Ky.
Fred Price, Baldwin, Ks., Ruth Rook, Cleveland, Ohio, Lee Campbell, Renwick, Ia., Clyde Houston, Massillon, O., Allen Calkins, Baldwin, Ks, John W. Sherman, Winfield, Kansas, J. H. Jolly, Judson, Ind., Maxwell Branner, Kansas City, Mo., F. L. Brohaska, Mobile, Ala.
W. W. Driggs, Jr., Berne, Kans.
C. M. Feuquay, Chandler, Okla.
J. Leo Meehan, Provo, Utah, Walter L. Holcomb, Kendallville, Ind. T, E. Mugendahl, Emporia, Kans, J. A. Mugendahl, Emporia, Ottawa, Ks., M. B. Morris, Jr,
Edina, Mo., Herbert L. Fryback, Smith Center, Ks.
Mrs. W. H. Turrell, Canora, Sask.
Canada, Leon Foster, New York, N.
Y. H. G. Kenagk, Warrenburg, Mo,
Ray Wilhains, Belphe, Ks., Lewis E.
Carter, Philadelphia, Pa., Geo. H.
Belwalt, Belfast, N. Y., Bert W.
White, Gina Cifano, Miss C. O'Donnell,
Gin Gio, Miss C. O'Donnell,
Benton Harbor, Mich., Chas.
Caldwell, Oakley, Ks., DeForrest
Murch, Murtall, Iul.
Rolla A. Clymer, Emporia, Kans.
Miss J. Miss, Williams, Barberon, O., H.
M. Rudesley, Hutchinson, Ks. Herbert Cline, Des Moines, Iowa, J. B. Hackert, Tescott, Kans. Mrs. Mary Allen, Lewistown, Mont., Alfred H. Reed, Redig, So. Dak, Ethel Keifer, Broken Arrow, Okla, Grove Wills, Park River, No. Dak, Gladys L. Cook, LaGrange, Mo, Hale Knight, Cambridge, Mass., Harold W. Scott, Leavenworth, Ks.
Virginia McVay, Little River, Ks,
Edith Krich, Cawker City, Ks., Harry
Eldred, Chicago, Ill., Dora Kerscher,
Winfield, Ks., Mrs. Ethel Snyder,
Kansas City, Mo., A.E Hot-
tter, Lansing, Michigan, Lexington,
Va., Chas. W, M.Erolog,
Cleveland, O., Mrs. Elizabeth Jones,
Baldwin, Ks.
Vena May Martin, Bristol, Tenn,
Chas. Shisler, Rock Island, Ill., V.
G. Scriven, Topeka, Ks, Leota E
Weber, Ness City, Ks, Lloyd Smith,
Topeka, Ks, Rob. Campbell, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
$12,000 FOR $20,000.
While $12,000 was invested in equipment for the journalism laboratory, yet about $20,000 worth of material was obtained, due to the fact that many factories donated half of the cost on account of the machinery being used in instructing students. Some of the equipment is loaned the department; two monotype keyboards valued at $2,500 are being shipped to the department free for use of students who wish to learn to operate them.
CORRESPONDENCE STUDENTS
Fifteen correspondence students are now taking work in the department of journalism. The majority of these "home-study" men and women are working in Kansas newspaper offices.