The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-10
ON ANNUAL TRIP
Aggie Embryo Journalists In
spect Topeka Plants.
Faculty of Department Here,
Too-Many CO-Eds.
GIRLS "JUST LOVE" TO WRITE
Newspaper and Farm Journal
Work Appeals to Them.
Fewer Men Are Enrolled This
Year Because of War.
GIRLS "JUST LOVE" TO WRITE

A. n. Crawford, head of the depart
ment of Journalism at the Kansas
State Agricultural college, and Frank
L. Snow, assistant professor of indus
trial journalism, brought eighteen
members of their department to To-
peka today for the annual inspection
of the big Topeka publishing plants
From the time they arrived in the
morning until late in the afternoon
the budding journalists were busy tax
ing in the sights and making notes
of the way Topeka newspapers are
run, the system used in the state
printing plant and going over the
plants of Crane & Company, the Kan
sas Farmer, the Hall Lithograph COM
pany's plant and the Topeka State
Journal and Capital plants.
The first visit of the morning was
made to the Topeka State Journal.
where the students saw the making
of a newspaper In all its details, from
the gathering of news to the setting
of type, casting of stereotype plates,
running off of the papers and pre-
pairing them for the malls.
Women in Majority.
From the appearance of the K S.
A. c. delegation it seems that women
are certainly coming into their own
in the news gathering game. as re-
suit of the war. There were many
more girls than boys in the troupe of
sight-seers and information seekers
and the fair co-eds were fairly fren-
zied in their desire TO get the inside
working of things.
An increased demand for women be-
cause of war conditions is anticipated.
The girls. consequently, expect to take
the places of men in newspaper and
farm journal establishments.
I like horses, and in fact any kind
of live stock" said one of the girls
Farm paper work is my choice"
Give me country paper-the
'countriest' kind of a paper" Joined in
another coed. Il have always lived
in the country and 1 like the people.
There's a real opportunity for bet
terlng community conditions
No country work for mine" spoke
up another. 7 want some real excite
ment once in awhile. I expect to
start in on Kansas daiIy-I've been
promised a job
How Students Work.
Students in industrial Journalism re-
eelVe practical experience in prepar-
IN copy for the Kansas TndustriaIist.
the OFFICIAL college paper, and the
Kansas State ColIegian, the student
paper, and are encouraged to submit
articles to farm and other pubIica-
tons Several students work on local
papers, and others do CORRESPONDENCE
work for city papers.
students in agriculture are required
70 study agricultural Journalism in
their Junior year and all students in
the school of agriculture are expected
TO take farm writing one Semester
Because of this fact the total enroll
Inent IN Journalism last year was the
third largest in the country
Inc Following are the members of
Topeka today:
a N. Crawford. head of the do
parLment; Frank l. Snow, assista nj
professor of industrial Journalism. r
T. Keith, instructor in Industrial iour-
nalism; Ruth White, Oklahoma civ.
Ruth Henderson. Alma: Martha
Borthwick. Ness City; Gertrude Nor
man, Manhattan; VeIma Carson. elf
ton; lone Leith. Irving; CaIlie Jen-
nlson. Healey; Mabel Bentley. val
haIla; Caroline Sloop, NortonvflIe.
Geta Lund, Manhattan: Estel Wolf,
/ man. Lacrosse: Nellie Thurnburgh
Manhattan; Dora Cate, Manhattan.
waiter Neibarger. Valley Falls; b O
shields, Lost Springs; W. E. Burnette
Prisons, and Mrs Z. T Keith. chan.
eron-