NHSPA SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
The
SVH UDAY, OCTOHFJi 17,
Final
SPONSORS ME
NEBRASKA GROUP
TO "GO NATIONAL"
Vote N.H.S.P.A. to Join
National Journalist
Organization.
BY BUSTER SLOSBURG.
Omaha Central.
Whether or not the Nebraska
High School Press Association
should become a member of the
National Association of Journalism
Directors was the most important
topic discussed by the sponsors of
the Nebraska Tress convention at
their annual meeting- Friday morn
ing at University Hall. Kntertain
ing a motion that the Nebraska
group should become a member of
the National Association intro
duced by Mrs. Anne Lane Savidgo
of Omaha Central High School,
a prolonged discussion followed
in which Mr. I. O. Jones of Omaha
Technical High School, declared
that the Nebraska Association be
longed to a redundant number of
national organizations that gave
the same results. After a vote the
motion passed.
Financial Report Read.
Miss Nolle ("Singles of Beatrice,
president, opened the meeting and
after hearing the minutes of the
previous meeting, called on Miss
Klsio Fisher, of Lincoln, treasurer,
for a financial report. Miss Fisher
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'Newspaper's Interest in
The Community' Title
Of His Address.
BY CLIFFORD THOMAS AND
LEONARD CORNELL
College View.
Mr. Frank D. Throop. publisher
of the Lincoln Star, addressed the
ninth annual Nebraska Press as
sociation on "The Newspaper's in
fluence in the Community" at the
Hotel Comhtisker last night at
::!.
Mr. Throop referred to his own
experience as flirt a newsboy utul
later as a printer.
He told briefly of the great
struggle for lroodom of the press.
He also told the great purl which
Hnnjamin Franklin played in
building up (he influence of I he
newspaper in Philadelphia in I In
17th century, whose writings were
largely for public benefit, such as
hospitals, bin 11 les, military homca, j
und l lie line.
Mr. Throop refi ned to the many
fights for freedom of the press be
fore it was granted by the con
stitution. He told of the impor
tance of the battle which newspap
ers ol Virginia put up.
At the present time, Kngliind Is
about the only count ly which has
freedom of the press except in
the United States. Mussolini, Hit
ler and Stalin have control of the
presses in Italy, (icrrnany and Rus
sia respectively.
The closing thought which Mr.
Throop left was the importance of
a newspaper in a eommunily to
day and the way in which n
newspaper must support worth
while subjects, but in any case, to
be broadminded about the subjecL
Press
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AXLY NEBRASKAN
Official Student
1936.
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From the Lincoln Journal.
SAM WAUGH, JR.
Sam Waugh, Lincoln business
man, will address outstate dads
and students at the Dad's day
luncheon sponsored by the Inno
cents society this noon. An incor
rect picture was run in Friday's
Nebraskan due to a filing error.
INVITATIONS FOR '37
Uni School of Journalism
To Receive Delegates
Alternate Years.
BY JAYNE CHANDLER.
Bellevue High.
Requesting that the 1937 con
vention of the Nebraska High
School Press association be held
in Omaha, seven Omaha civic or
ganizations, including the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Creighton
university, and different Omaha
high schools, have endorsed an in
vitation sent to N. H. S. P. A. of
ficials. The Nebraska School of Jour
nalism has not issued an invita
tion for this convention in defer
ence to the feeling it might add
interest lo the associations acuvi
1 if fi Mother location is chosen
for the 1!;S7 convention. The pur
pose or the school IS 10 inviie me
association to return to the cam
pus or the University of Nebraskr.
in 1 !'.".
Prof. Oayle C. Walker, director
of the School or Journalism, ta-
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i)Vl. AM) SCIJOMi
TO 1IOIJ) IlKKARl "AST
Doris Itnciklc lrciuV;
Dclcpitcs Will (inc
Informal Talks.
By Gcorqc Edson,
Albion.
One of (he social fea lutes of
the Nebraska High School Press
association convention will be the
annual Quill and Scroll Club
breakfast held at the Cornhtisker
hotel this morning nt 7:30.
Presiding at the breakfast; will
be Doris 1 Snorkle of Omaha, edi
tor of the South High "Tool or."
Informal talks will be given by
representative's of Grand Island
and Holdroge high schools. Miss
Hello Forma n of Lincoln High will
also upenk.
Approximately oO guests will
attend the breakfast. It will be
concluded before Ihe panel dis
cussions are opened at S:,10 so that
they shall be able to attend,
Roundtcthles
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PRESS CONVENTION
Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
Iliiih Srliool Journalisls Yisil
Capitol, iM;wspaprr S'isiMin
Muses Conduct 17. Pm'mI.s
On Tour of Iligli Spots
And Koidcnccs.
By Martha Barnhart and Mathew
Wicncke, Auburn.
Approximately a 75 high school
journalists, in seven buses, toured
the showplaces of Lincoln, as a
feature of the Nebraska Press
convention, held here Friday and
Saturday.
Starting at the Journal and Star
press buildings, the tour included
a visit to the press rooms, the
capitol, and a sightseeing ride thru
the Agricultural college campus
and part of the residential dis
trict. Visit Printing Offices.
From the general offices to the
printing rooms, where huge press
es printed copies at a rate of
24,000 an hour, the journalists
toured either the Journal or Star
printing offices and listened to
the explanations of the guides.
The tour brought the students
to the linotype and proof rooms
where operators produced molten
lead type by the touch of their
keyboards, or compiled the type
galleys in metal forms ready for
the casting room.
One of the features was the
Associated Press department in
which stories and bulletins were
received on "mechanical typewrit
ers" or sent by means of a device
that ran off strips resembling play
er piano records.
In the casting room, the Sun
day comics and feature sections
were in the process of molding. A
huge furnace melted the metal
which was poured into a semi
circular mold with the mat or
pattern of the printed page.
Photo Process.
The entire development of a
photograph or "cut" was explain-
PRESS BANQUETEERS
SEE 3-REEL PICTURE
Movie Depicts Conditions
In Mid-West 'Dust
Bowl' Section.
BY IRENE HENSON.
College View.
"The Plow that Hroke the
Plains," a three-reel motion pic
ture depicting conditions in Ihe
"dust bowl" area, was shown at
the Nebraska High School Press
iwnoi'liil ion be nonet . held Pridav.
October 10, fit the Coinhiisker ho
ld.
Production Cost $400,000.
The picture, produced by the Re
settlement Administration under
Ihe direction of Koxford Tilgwell
at a cost ol $400,000, portrayed the
idea that the "plow thai broke the
plains" caused Ihe present "dust
bowl" nit ! !:d ion.
Dating back to l'Hli, the picture
shows the mid dlcwtuif. being ex
plored by the war profiteers, who
urged tlie farmers to grow every
.spear ol grain possible. Having
plowed (he prairie into n fruitful
I.. i. ilm .Irnnlli f"imo the wind
blew, then eonvs our present, "dust
howl sit nation.
Includes 118 Families.
Under Ihe resell lenient, adniinis-
I rut Inn 118 families, each t iven a
cow, pig, chicken house, and a few
chickens, are maintaining them
selves on 7.3 acres of land. An av
erage of 4.0 people per farm are
expected to pay 3.r.O lo $400 a year
to (he government .
The picture may re obtained jor
the price of shipping it and has
boon shown in over lzo meaiers in
Nebraska tneludlng the Varsity
theater in Lincoln.
Conv
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ed and d-mionstrated from th?
orignml photograph to the zinc
plate on which it was etched. The
guide explained that the Sunday
comics were printed four times lo
produce the color .scheme.
The last sta;ve of the tour look
the journalists down to the base
ment where the noon edition of
the Journal was being run off and
the telephone dirovtoiy printed -32
pages at a time. In the printing
of the latter, an almost uncanny
device picked the huge sheets of
paper one at a time anil shot them
thru the press.
Having inspected the printing
apparatus the students assembled
outside the building where wait
ing buses conveyed them lo the
capitol building.
Tourists Inspect State Capitol.
"The Salvation of the State Is
the Watchfulness in the Citizen."
Thus read the young eonvention
ists as they entered Nebraska's
$10,000,000 state capitol building.
Mr. John Kdwards, guide, ex
plained the history, origin, etc., ol
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41 PRESS DELEGATES
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NlWSWRITING event
Committee to Announce
Winner of Trophy at
Meeting Today.
BY ARLENE ACKERMAN.
Omaha North.
Representatives from 41 Nebras
ka high schools cimneted by long
hand or typewriter in the news
writing contest conducted by Rob
ert Mossholder yesterday afternoon
at University hall The results will
be announced at the business ses
sion at 11 o'clock this morning.
Contestants, one lxy and one
girl from each school, were al
lowed .r0 minutes to write a news
slory from facts jumbled with un
necessary material. Dietion and
spelling errors were inserted to
confuse Ihe writers.
The winner will receive the an
nually presented trophy, given two
years ago by Fred Minder, field
secretary of I1'." Nebraska Press
associat ion.
Decision will be made by a com
mittee headed by Jack Krickson of
the Lincoln Star and will bo based
on accuracy, interest, clearness,
neatness and general familiarity
with the Fnglish language and
newspaper pno lice.
M rnoro DISPLAY
i ails to ;.;
(omlavr's AVms I'iclitrr
Lxhihil Jusl Isii'l
Prrpslcr l iiuls.
Arlenc Ackcrman.
Omaha North.
"News photos of startling dis
aster, violence, and the cream or
the news photographers' craft
will rush to Lincoln by air ox
press in time for display at tbe
convention," slated the bulletin.
Only they didn't got here!
The news pit-lure division of the
Associated Press prepared and
sent the pictures from New York
Tuesday, but the plane must have
crashed or burned, or maybe the
pilot is trying to establish a cross
country hop and didn't bother to
stop lu re.
This would be a swell title for
a mystery - "The Pictures That
Aren't" or "The Lost Air Kx
prcss." 1
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BETTER MAKEU
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Students, Lead Round table
Conference on Press
Fracticcs.
By CLYDE MARTZ
Lincoln.
For the purpose of becoming bet
ter acquainted wilh the type of
makeup preferred by individual
schools, and foi learning more
about topics of interest to the high
school press convention group in
general. N. H. S. P. A. delegates
plan a series of panel discussions
this morning in University hall.
After a consideration of such
subjects of sure fire interest as
"Printed Paper Makeup" and
"Mimeographed Papers." a blanket,
discussion of a more general na
ture will be held.
Wilh Warren Kunkel, Albion,
presiding, the printed paper divi
sion, meeting in room iu- oi me
I Journalism school, plans to open
jthe morning discussion wilh a
panel confab on the writing of the
newspaper. Five student represen
tatives will describe types of pews
stories, led by Mary Krickson,
Kearney. A group from Columbus
High will load the following round
table on sports stories and sports
page arrangements.
Editorial "We."
Ro'aiiiia Piirdam, Omaha Cen
tral student, will describe the edi
torial page, its handling and pur
pose. Interviews and features will
be handled by student speakers
Jean Simmons of Lincoln and
'Petty Jo Pylleshy of Fairbury. roi-
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FEATURES ADS HOLD
Bee-News Managing Editor
Outlines Remunerative
News Departments.
By Dorothy Calhoun.
North Platte.
"P.ocenl Trends of the News
paper Business" was the subject
upon which Mr. Fred Hunter, man
aging editor of the Om.ih.l P.ee
News spoke today before delegates
of the Nebraska High School Press
association at the general session
of Ihe convention Friday after
noon in Morrill hall.
"The most ri numeral ive bl anch
es of the news business," he de
clared," are Ihe feature writing
and advertising branches The
reason for this." he said. "is
th- need for variety in order lo
sell Ihe newspaper. VValter Winch
ell is a good example of I his. lb'
earns over $1,000 per week."
"other branches of feature
writing arc the beauty column,
the Hollywood column, and the
sports column. The beauty fea
ture story writtrs must be ex
ports ami must study especially
for that The Hollywood column
writer must. Ik- close to Holly
wood life. The sports editor," re
marked Mr. Hunter, wilh a grin,
"gets away with murder."
No B. O. Appeal.
The news end of the business
does not profit acording to Hun
ter, as he says news writers do
not have box office appeal. "The
newspaper is more flcparlment.il
than in its original form. This
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