Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
Finally on the matter of follow-up work, one of the chief criticisms
that may be made of much educational publicity is that it is spasmodic
and unrelated. This is often due to the fact that the planning of
follow-up work is left until the campaign is at its height or until
it is over. By that time the workers at headquarters and in the field
are too absorbed in the detail of running the affair, or a new project
is under way. All the resources and energy have gone into running the
campaign and none is left for securing results. In the advance planning
of the whole campaign, allowance should be made in the budget for a
definite program of follow-up work as well as in the time of staff
members needed to carry it out.
FOOTNOTES:
[10] Hollingworth, H. L.: Advertising and Selling, New York, D.
Appleton & Co.
APPENDIX
REFERENCE LISTS OF TRAIN, TRUCK, TROLLEY, AND OTHER TRAVELING CAMPAIGNS
The lists below include traveling educational campaigns about which we
have obtained reasonably accurate information. The two chief sources
of further information about these projects are the state colleges of
agriculture and state boards of health. Very little information about
tours is available in published form. Articles in class publications
giving brief accounts of a few of the tours and a few special reports
about tours are listed in Appendix B.
In practically all the train tours, one or more railroads have
co-operated at least to the extent of supplying cars and free
transportation, and sometimes bearing a considerable share of the work
and expenses of the tour. Our lists, we realize, do not always give the
full credit to co-operating railroads and other participants, but as
much is given as it was possible to ascertain and to indicate within
the space limits.
We are aware, also, that the list is by no means a complete record of
educational tours. Information is coming in continually about tours
that we had not known of before. The main purpose, however, is to
give a general idea of the purposes, forms, and extent of traveling
campaigns in recent years, together with only a few of such details as
may help the inquirer decide where to look further for suggestions that
may be of assistance in his particular case.
The list does not include tours of trucks or trains for service only,
as, for example, library trucks or laboratory trains. Neither does it
include “chapel cars,” that is, railroad cars, motor vehicles, and
boats, for religious services or instruction, such as have been sent
out by various religious bodies for many years.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CONSERVATION TRAINS
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