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Show SCHOOL JOURNALISM CLASSES HOLD RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUTURE PAPERS The development of the na tion's weeklies and smallest dailies might well be the responsibility respon-sibility of schools and departments depart-ments of journalism. This is the opinion of M. Neff Smart, I who has just been named to the I staff of the Journalism Department Depart-ment at the University of Utah. Mr. Smart is publisher of the Orem-Geneva Times, secretary of the Utah State Press Association, Associa-tion, and chairman of the Education Educa-tion Committee of the Press Association. As-sociation. In announcing Mr. Smart's appointment, Prof. Quintus C Wilson, head of the U of U Journalism department, stated that Mr. Smart will direct a new type of journalistic com munity service. His services are offered to high school jour-nalLm jour-nalLm teachers and publicationf advisers in working out their problems. He will assist tlu teachers in obtaining the cooper ation of the weekly editor; thruout the state in the print ing of high school publications. This service is aimed at a better bet-ter cooperation between editors and journalism teachers. Mr. Smart, in accepting the appointment, said that schools and departments of journalism can serve the cause of freedom and democracy by pointng up to students the need for production produc-tion and expression of ideas. His statement is as follows: "I firmly believe that the resources re-sources of our weekly and ; hometown daily newspapess are being neglected. All the studies have shown that these newspapers newspa-pers have a remarkably heavy readership, yet this is being interpreted in-terpreted to the public only in terms of the community press as an acceptable advertising medium. It might better be interpreted in-terpreted to the public as a factor fac-tor in our social and political economy. "Political thinking and the airing of these ideas are not the private field of a few pundits in Washington and New York. The market place of ideas should exist, as well, in the grass roots of our nation, and our country can be served by reversing the trend which is giving us a shrinking market place of thought. This can be done best, it seems to me, by ut lizing and developing the "ommunity press. "The development of the na tion's weeklies and small dailies might well be the responsibility ; of our schools, and particularly ! of our universities and their j journalism departments. They ' certainly could serve the cause of freedom and democracy by pointing up to students the need for the production and expression expres-sion of ideas on every level, and by giving us graduates who J are not only trained to print our community papers, but who have the vision and courage to make their voices heard." |