Reports salaries of nine editors and six assistant editors that responded to an AAACE request for such information. Editors: range $3,500-$2,000. Mean $2,739.. Assistant editors: range $2,400-$1,200. Mean $1,850.
Summarizes a presentation by Lowell Treaster, director of public relations at Michigan State College, at the recent AAACE conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Presentation by R. W. Trullinger, chief of the office of experiment stations and assistant research administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at 1950 AAACE conference. Calls for AAACE to become a stronger professional organization and urges development of strong agricultural journalism training programs. "Has your group gone on record urging the Association to increase opportunities for professional agricultural journalism?" "There must be a basic reason why the editorial departments are so frequently assigned quarters in the basement or attic; why the editor so often has to take on nondescript chores ranging from the duties of janitor to teaching English."
"A newspaper mat service now in its third year of use by the Missouri Agricultural Extension Service is believed by the author to be one of the best informational mediums used by the state."
Reports three experiences in which Georgia State College of Agriculture contracted with commercial firms to provide information for paid advertisements and accompanying news releases to newspapers.
Brief summary of a talk by C.E. Randall, editor, U.S. Forest Service, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Reports the views of S.W. Mendum, statistician of the editorial office of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, regarding the size of tables in publications. He believes that a table, no matter how many columns of figures it contains, is simple if the box headings are intelligible.
Brief summary of a talk by J.T. Jardine, Chief, Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Author said the field for home economics extension has become so broad that it is beginning to take rank with agriculture in its diversity of interests. It would be most helpful, she said, if the editors in the various states could associate with them assistant editors, women well trained in both home economics and journalism, who could adequately give popular expression to home demonstration work.
Brief summary of a presentation by Alan Dailey, radio extension specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.