Announces the beginning of NPAC "the day after Labor Day" at Michigan State University, with Stanley Andrews as executive director. Provides biographies of Andrews and new associate director, Frank Byrnes.
"It is fundamentally wrong to take sex sides in any situation, for goodness and badness - intelligence and moronity - are not distributed on the basis of man and woman. It is the individual who counts…"
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?"
