This committee report examines relationships between extension communicators at the state level with local extension agents in providing news to mass media.
Raises eight questions for ACE members: " 1) Are we glorified clerks or are we scientists? 2) What are desirable forms of publication and information materials? Scientists are demanding longer bulletins. The public is calling for shorter. 3) What should be the professional training of men and women to become agricultural and home editors? One school suggests that all that is needed in our fields is a certain facility -- we are engaged in a science -- home scientists measure success by acceptance in AP and UP. 4) Is there opportunity for research in the field of farm and home editing? 5) What is to be the future of agriculture and what leadership will the college of agriculture, the experiment stations, and the USDA be called upon to give? Together with our institutions, we must begin long-time planning. 6) What place has and will the radio have in carrying to the people the results of research? 7) How shall we measure results in our field? 8) What are we going to do about it?"
Brief summary of a talk by Wilbur D. Staats, extension editor, State College of Washington, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
"Hadley Reed (sic), assistant agricultural editor of Iowa State College, has been named extension editor, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. He succeeds F. J. 'Dutch' Keilholz, who resigned in December, 1943, to become associate editor of 'The Country Gentleman.' Prof. G.L. Jordan, acting editor, has returned to teaching duties in agricultural economics. Farm bulletins, until June 1, will be edited by J. W. Walker and Miss Jessie Heathman."
